Remains of Kentucky soldier killed in Korean War identified - Danbury News Times

Wright was portion of C Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division successful July 1950 erstwhile helium went missing successful enactment during warring on the Kum River adjacent Taejon, South Korea. His assemblage couldn't beryllium instantly recovered and the Army issued a presumptive uncovering of decease successful 1953.

The Army began recovering remains aft regaining power of the area, but they weren't capable to place some, which were aboriginal sent to Hawaii wherever they were buried astatine the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known arsenic the Punchbowl.

In 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began a task to disinter unidentified remains. Scientists utilized DNA, dental and anthropological investigation to find that 1 acceptable of remains belonged to Wright.

A rosette volition beryllium placed adjacent to Wright’s sanction connected the Courts of the Missing astatine the Punchbowl to bespeak helium has been accounted for. He volition beryllium buried astatine a aboriginal day successful Whitesville.