MIA Update - September 25, 2020

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MIA Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced four new identifications for service members and one burial update who have been missing and unaccounted-for from WWII and the Korean War. Returning home for burial with full military honors are:
-- Army Pvt. Donald A. Fabrize, 17, was a member of Company B, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action on July 16, 1950, during battle defending, then withdrawing from, positions along the Kum River in South Korea. His remains could not be immediately located or recovered. The Army deemed Fabrize non-recoverable on Jan. 16, 1956. Interment services are pending. Read about Fabrize https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2359500/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-fabrize-d/.
-- Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Alphard S. Owsley, 23, as assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Owsley. Interment services are pending. Read about Owsley https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2357903/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-owsley-a/.
-- Army Pfc. Bobbie Ray Daniels, 17, was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was reported missing in action on Aug. 16, 1950 during battle near Waegwan, South Korea. His remains could not be immediately recovered. He was officially declared dead on May 1, 1953. Interment services are pending. Read about Daniels https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2356428/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-daniels-b/.
-- Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Gabriel J. Eggud, 25, was a pilot assigned to the 110th Reconnaissance Squadron (Fighter), 71st Reconnaissance Group. On July 6, 1944 he was piloting a P-39 Airacobra fighter on a combat mission over Wewak, New Guinea, when a released bomb exploded and destroyed his aircraft. Efforts to recover Eggud’s remains were unsuccessful. Interment services are pending. Read about Eggud https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2356203/pilot-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-eggud-g/.
-- Army Pfc. Oliver Jeffers, 31, of Huntsville, Tennessee, was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Germeter, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was killed in action on Nov. 10. Jeffers could not be recovered because of the on-going fighting. Jeffers will be buried Oct. 7, 2020, in his hometown. Read about Jeffers https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/2163631/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-jeffers-o/.