MIA Updates 3-24-16 VFW Reports the following
 

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MIA Update(s):

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced burial updates of three soldiers formerly missing in action since the Korean War, and the identification of remains of two other servicemen who died during World War II and the Vietnam War. Returned home are:

• Army Cpl. Davey H. Bart, 18, of Houston, will be buried March 26 in Humble, Texas. He was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when lost fighting in North Korea on Nov. 2, 1950. It would be later confirmed he died in captivity. Read more.

• Army Sgt. 1st Class Raymond K. McMillian, 20, of Axton, Va., will be buried March 26 in Martinsville, Va. He was assigned to Medical Company, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, when lost fighting in South Korea on Feb. 12, 1951. Read more.

• Army Cpl. Eldon W. Ervin, 21, of Wyandotte, Okla., will be buried with full military honors on March 29 in Seneca, Mo. He was assigned to Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, when lost fighting in North Korea on Nov. 28, 1950. Read more.

• Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Frederick W. Langhorst, of Yonkers, N.Y., was assigned to the 1130 Army Air Force Base Unit, Air Transport Command, when lost over India on July 17, 1945. He will be buried with full military honors on a date and location to be announced.

• Army Sgt. 1st Class Alan L. Boyer, 22, of Missoula, Mont., was assigned to the Command and Control Detachment, 5th Special Forces Group, when lost in Laos on March 28, 1968. He will be buried with full military honors on a date and location to be announced.


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