ATLANTA — DNA evaluation has helped scientists determine the stays of a U.S. Army soldier from Georgia who was killed in the course of the Korean Struggle, U.S. officers introduced Wednesday.
Scientists used mitochondrial DNA together with a chest X-ray and different instruments to determine Army Sgt. 1st Class James L. Wilkinson late final yr, the Protection POW/MIA Accounting company mentioned in a information launch. Wilkinson was from Bowdon, a city close to the Georgia-Alabama state line about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Atlanta.
He was 19 when he went lacking in September 1950 throughout preventing alongside the Naktong River close to Yongsan, South Korea. He was presumed useless however his physique couldn’t be instantly recovered, based on the accounting company information launch.
The Army started recovering stays from the realm in 1951. Wilkinson’s physique was initially declared unidentifiable and was buried together with different unknown stays on the Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
They have been dug up in 2019 as a part of a plan to attempt to determine 652 units of stays from the Korean Struggle.
Wilkinson will probably be buried on Sept. 16 in Barrow County, Georgia, the accounting company mentioned.
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