MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – A Minnesota soldier killed during the Korean War has been identified.
The Defense P-O-W/M-I-A Accounting Agency says 19-year-old Army Corporal William Colby of Minneapolis was a member of Dog Company, 1st Battalion and was reported missing in action on December 2nd, 1950 after Chinese People’s Army forces attacked his unit as the 7th Infantry Division attempted to withdraw near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.
In July 2018, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un turned over 55 boxes to then-President Donald Trump, which contained the remains of American service members killed during the war.
Colby’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Some of the remains were eventually identified as Colby, who will be buried later in Minneapolis.
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