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Chosin hold the line3/16/2023 ![]() They can’t get away this time’.”įans of Jeff Shaara’s military historical fiction won’t have to wait much longer with the ambitious rendering of the Chosin Reservoir battle during the Korean War, he’s taken a great leap forward. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. ![]() A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.įor additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at find us on social media at or call (703) 699-1420.“’All right. Hackenberg’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle Monuments Commission site along with the others who are missing from the Korean War. Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously returned by North Korean officials or recovered from North Korea by American recovery teams. Today, 7,718 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. To identify Hackenberg’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological and chest radiograph comparison analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial evidence.ĭPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs for their partnership in this recovery. After receiving approval, X-14266 was disinterred on June 13, 2016, and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis. The set of remains was designated “X-14266” and was transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and interred as a Korean War Unknown.Īfter a thorough historical and scientific analysis, it was determined that X-14266 could likely be identified. 7, 1954, a set of remains reportedly recovered from a prisoner of war cemetery at Camp 1 and 3, Changsong, North Korea, were sent to the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, for attempted identification. In 1954, United Nations and communist forces exchanged the remains of war dead in what came to be called “Operation Glory.” All remains recovered in Operation Glory were turned over to the Army’s Central Identification Unit for analysis. Hackenberg could not be accounted for at the end of the battle, and he was declared missing in action as of April 25, 1951.įollowing the war, several returning American prisoners of war reported that Hackenberg had been captured by the CPVF and died in the summer of 1951 while being held at a prisoner of war camp. Enemy forces engaged the patrol with mortars and small arms fire, forcing the patrol to withdraw. ![]() In late April 1951, Hackenberg was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, along a defensive line west of Chorw’on, South Korea, when his unit was attacked by the Chinese People’s Volunteer Force (CPVF) and Korean People’s Army (KPA.) American troops were able to hold the lines, and when the attacks subsided, a patrol went to determine possible enemy river-crossing points. Hackenberg, 22, of Snyder County, Pennsylvania, will be buried November 2 in the Middleburg, Pennsylvania. serviceman, recently accounted-for from the Korean War, are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.Īrmy Pfc. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S.
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