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Post-Korean War casualty repatriation effort
Operation Glory
was an American effort to
repatriate
the remains of
United Nations Command
casualties from North Korea at the end of the
Korean War
. The
Korean Armistice Agreement
of July 1953 called for the repatriation of all casualties and prisoners of war, and through September and October 1954 the
Graves Registration Service Command
received the remains of approximately 4,000 casualties.
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Of the 1,868 American remains, 848 unidentified remains were buried as "
unknowns
" at the
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
in Hawaii.
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Some of the remains came from the temporary
military cemeteries
in North Korea that had been abandoned as Chinese forces pushed US forces out of North Korea.
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Public ceremonies involving delivery of the returned remains included honor guards.
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Also exchanged were the remains of approximately 14,000 North Korean and Chinese casualties.
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References
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Coleman, Bradley Lynn (January 2008).
"Recovering the Korean War Dead, 1950?1958: Graves Registration, Forensic Anthropology, and Wartime Memorialization"
.
The Journal of Military History
.
72
(1). Project Muse (
Society for Military History
): 179?222.
doi
:
10.1353/jmh.2008.0013
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ISSN
0899-3718
.
S2CID
162230190
.
Archived
from the original on 2020-04-01
. Retrieved
2013-11-11
.
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"Operation GLORY: Historical Summary"
.
Condensed from Graves Registration Division, Korean Communications Zone (KCOMZ)
.
Fort Lee, VA
:
Army Quartermaster Museum
. July?December 2004. Archived from
the original
on 2007-12-28
. Retrieved
2013-11-11
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Note: the calculation of remains comes from Coleman as the "Historical Summary" gives a total of 4,023 UN remains received.
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But see:
Sherrell, Chandler (1998).
A Historical Analysis of United States Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Repatriation and Remains Recovery
. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College. p. 38.
OCLC
831669354
. Archived from
the original
on 2016-03-04
. Retrieved
2013-11-12
.
During Operation GLORY, 1,879 sets of remains were returned. Of those, 1,020 were positively identified, and another 859 unidentified remains were declared unknown casualties.
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Not all remains were returned to the home countries. Some of the 2,300 remains buried at the
United Nations Memorial Cemetery
in
Busan, South Korea
were recovered during Operation Glory.
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Keene, Judith (February 2010). "Below Ground: The Treatment of American Remains from the Korean War".
The Public Historian
.
32
(1).
National Council on Public History
: 58?78.
doi
:
10.1525/tph.2010.32.1.59
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ISSN
0272-3433
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JSTOR
10.1525/tph.2010.32.1.59
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PMID
20503915
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Sledge, Michael (2007) [2005].
Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 78, 199.
ISBN
9780231509374
.
OCLC
60527603
.
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Cole, Paul M. (1994). "Three: Efforts to Recover and Account for Korean War Casualties".
POW/MIA Issues Volume 1, The Korean War
(PDF)
. Santa Monica, CA: National Defense Research Institute. p. 68.
ISBN
9780833014825
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OCLC
855303293
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Archived
(PDF)
from the original on 2013-11-12
. Retrieved
2013-11-12
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