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Remains of teen solider killed during Korean War to be buried in Urbana

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Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency
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SOURCE: Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency
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Remains of teen solider killed during Korean War to be buried in Urbana
The remains of a solider killed during the Korean War will be buried at Oak Dale Cemetery this May. According to Fort Knox officials, the solider has been identified as Army Cpl. Charles E. Hiltibran. Hiltibran was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, officials said. The 19-year-old soldier was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.Nearly 70 years later, Hiltibran’s remains were turned over by the North Korea government in July 2018, officials said. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in April 2020 after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence, and anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis.Hiltibran’s name was recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, dedicated to those still missing from the Korean War. Officials said a rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.More than 7,500 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.For more information on Hiltibran, click here.

The remains of a solider killed during the Korean War will be buried at Oak Dale Cemetery this May.

According to Fort Knox officials, the solider has been identified as Army Cpl. Charles E. Hiltibran.

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Hiltibran was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, officials said.

The 19-year-old soldier was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.

Nearly 70 years later, Hiltibran’s remains were turned over by the North Korea government in July 2018, officials said.

He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in April 2020 after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence, and anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis.

Hiltibran’s name was recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, dedicated to those still missing from the Korean War.

Officials said a rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

More than 7,500 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.

For more information on Hiltibran, click here.