Cpl. Lewis W. Hill, 18, of Detroit, has been identified as a Korean War casualty nearly three-quarters of a century after his 1950 disappearance near Taejon.
The remains of an 18-year-old Army corporalwho was killed in the Korean War in 1950 have been identified, officials said Thursday.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill was accounted for on May 22 after agency scientists identified his remains using dental and anthropological analysis and other means.Hill went missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat from around Taejon, South Korea, on July 20, 1950, and his body could not be recovered, the agency said. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death more than three years later, on Dec. 31, 1953, the agency said.
The remains of a Korean War-era corporal from Detroit, who was 18 when he disappeared in 1950, have been identified. After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery. A tentative association was made between Hill and a set of remains recovered at that time, but definitive proof could not be found, and the remains were determined to be unidentifiable, the agency said. They were sent
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