Remains of a Korean War veteran are coming back to his home state of Georgia. The body of Sargent First Class James Wilkinson, who was 19 at the time of his death, was identified as part of an effort by the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency which used DNA analysis and dental records to make positive identifications on hundreds of bodies.
Wilkinson was first reported missing in action in September of 1950 and declared dead in 1953. The bodies of unidentified soldiers that had been buried in a UN cemetery were moved by the U.S. army and reburied at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. Wilkinson’s body was officially identified in December of last year. He will be buried in Barrow County.
