The 17 -year -old American soldier who disappeared in the Korean war was calculated

Officials said on Monday that a 17 -year -old soldier was killed during the Korean war, which was calculated 75 years after his disappearance.

Corporal army. Albert J. Estrada is a member of Battery B, the thirty -seventh authentic artillery battalion, the 31st Fighting Team, the seventh infantry department, the defense accounting agency PO/MIA He said in a press release. The service started in July 1950, According to the Old Warriors Foundation in the Korean War. He was one of the tens of thousands of soldiers present at the Battle of Chausen Khasin in November and December 1950, said DPAA.

During the battle, 30,000 United Nations soldiers, including American soldiers, faced 120,000 Chinese and North Korean enemy forces in “rough terrain in the deadly cold weather”, ” DPAA said. The battle, which DPAA described as “one of the” war “in the entire war, erupted for 17 days.

DPAA said army officials wanted to push North Korea to China and supply lines near the Chosin reservoir. But the North Korean forces launched a sudden attack that forced one group of soldiers to retreat in late November. A few days later, the Chinese soldiers surrounded and isolated another group of soldiers. The work squad was collected in a hurry to try to organize the withdrawal. The “bitter battle” of the United Nations forces allowed the opening of an airport to bring reinforcements and evacuate losses on December 1, according to the American army, and in the end, soldiers from the United Nations managed to fully decline.

DPAA said that more than 1,000 naval infantry and American soldiers were killed during this time. Thousands were wounded or helpless due to cold weather. Because of the elements and retreat, “hundreds of naval infantry and soldiers who fell immediately were unable,” said DPAA.

Estra was one of the soldiers who could not be present after the battle. He said that DPAA was not information to indicate that it was disappeared on December 6, 1950. After three years, on December 31, 1953, the US military issued a virtual discovery of death.

Between 1953 and 1954, the North Korean government returned thousands of the remains of the soldiers who died during the Korean war. The remains were buried in the United Nations tombs in North Korea. The voltage, known as Glory Glory, included the return of 500 groups of burial remains near the Chosin Tank. Everything except 126 remains were identified. DPAA said that unidentified residues were buried as anonymous in the national memorial cemetery in the Pacific Ocean.

From 1990 to 1994, the North Korean government returned to 47 additional containers of the remains attributed to the Chosin reservoir battle. From these recovery efforts, the DPAA and its preceding organizations were able to identify more than 130 missing employees of the Chosin Tank Campaign.

DPAA did not explain any delivery of the Retrada Rafs that was recovered. The agency said that the full announcement of his accounting will be shared later.

Estrada won many military decorations, including Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, and the War of the Republic of Korea’s war, according to the Foundation of the Old Warriors in the Korean War.

The siblings of Estrada are alive, Manuel Estrada and Ruth Taker, have long pressed his identity, according to an article in 2018 of 2018 Daily Democratic. That year, a medal was presented by the South Korean Republic to honor its efforts to the missing American soldiers who died during the Korean war. At that time, Taker said Determine a complete identity From the remains of the Korean war, it can take between four and five years.