Remains Of U.S. Soldier Killed In Korean War Identified 72 Years After He Was Reported Missing

By Kerry Breen, CBS Pittsburgh

November 12, 2022

The remains of a 27-year-old man killed during the Korean War have been accounted for 72 years after he was reported missing, the U.S. government announced this week.

U.S. Army Cpl. Tommie T. Hanks was reported missing in action on November 26, 1950 after his unit attempted to withdraw from a location in North Korea, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) said in a news release. His body was declared "non-recoverable" on Jan. 16, 1956, and his name was later recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission's Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The DPAA said Hanks' remains were among the 55 boxes containing Korean War remains given to the United States in July 2018 by North Korea. The boxes were turned over after a summit between then-President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un and sent to a DPAA laboratory for identification.

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