One Brick Short

They’re still out there, trying to bring the guys home.

This time they’ve found an ID for one who died in a prisoner of war camp during the Korean War. His name is Cpl. Robert S. Ferrell, U.S. Army, of Dallas, Texas and he was snagged as his field artillery unit was nearly overrun by Chinese communists on Feb. 12, 1951, about 70 miles east of Seoul. Cpl.  Ferrell was captured near Hoengsong, South Korea. He later died in captivity at the Suan Mining POW camp located about 40 miles southeast of Pyongyang, North Korea.

Cpl. Ferrell has been home since 1991 when the North Korean government gave over remains of several servicemen recovered near the Suan Mining POW camp. Ferrell’s remains, along with cold-weather clothing and uniform buttons worn by U.S. infantry, were included in the 1991 repatriation.

His burial date is being set by his family.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of Ferrell’s remains.