![]() Progress on Korean War Personnel Accounting Cases from Korea represent highly commingled human remains involving thousands of missing persons from varied proveniences, while the Korean War Identification Project highlights the challenges and successes of a multi-disciplinary approach involving historians, anthropologists, odontologists, and DNA and isotope specialists working with family members towards identification and resolution. ![]() Of those, over 7,500 personnel remain unaccounted for as of June 2022.Īll cases from Korea are under the purview of the Korean War Identification Project, including unilateral turnovers (the K208 and K55), field recoveries (JROs), and cemetery disinterments (Punchbowl Unknowns), representing the largest identification project within the DPAA. The United States suffered approximately 36,500 casualties, making up over 90% of non-Korean UN losses. Come hear about the museum, life aboard a Korean War destroyer, and a critical naval operation of the Korean War.In its three years, one month, and two days, some 3 million people from all involved belligerents died during the Korean War, making it the deadliest conflict of the Cold War era. “We were scared all of the time,” says Bud.īud will be joining us from Fort Wayne’s Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum which hosts, among other things, a permanent Vietnam Wall that is an 80% size replica of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Two minesweepers were sunk and dozens more US ships damaged by enemy fire. Meanwhile, from shore, North Korean gun batteries kept up fire on the ships at sea. There, the US Navy shelled the city continuously while sweeping the approaches for mines. The Carmick headed for the North Korean port city of Wonsan, a strategically critical location and one of the most heavily-mined harbors in the world. ![]() Bud dropped out of school at age 17 in 1952 to join the Navy and “see the world.” After Boot Camp at Great Lakes and Gunner Mate training, he got assigned to the USS Carmick (DMS-33), a WWII destroyer converted into a destroyer minesweeper for the Korean War. We welcome 88-year-old Bud Mendenhall of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to talk about his Navy service in the Korean War, when he participated in the Siege of Wonsan, the longest naval blockade in modern history. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (DMS-33, formerly DD-493) At Pearl Harbor with the crew at quarters, circa the early 1950s. ![]()
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