PERSIAN GULF (July 6, 2007) - Flight deck personnel prepare to launch an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the "Black Knights" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 154 from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in support of maritime operations and the global war on terrorism. Maritime operations help set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment, as well as complement counter-terrorism and security efforts of regional nations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ron Reeves

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U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 860-07
July 10, 2007


The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Pfc. Domenico S. Di Salvo, U.S. Marine Corps, of Akron, Ohio. He will be buried July 12 in Seville, Ohio.

In late November 1950, Di Salvo was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, of the 1st Marine Division then deployed near Yudam-ni on the western side of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. On Nov. 27, three Communist Chinese Divisions launched an attack on the Marine positions. Over the next several days, U.S. forces staged a fighting withdrawal to the south. Di Salvo was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, as a result of enemy action near Yudam-ni. He was among several in his company buried by fellow Marines in a temporary grave near the battlefield.

During Operation Glory in 1954, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of U.S. and allied soldiers. Included in this repatriation were sets of remains associated with Di Salvo’s burial. That year, U.S. officials identified five of these individuals. One repatriated individual could not be identified at that time and was buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (The Punchbowl) in Hawaii.

In November 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) exhumed remains from the NMCP believed to be those of Di Salvo.

Among other forensic tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from the JPAC used dental comparisons in Di Salvo’s identification.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/ or call (703) 699-1169.

Labels: Fallen Heroes, Korean War, POW/MIA

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Today in History
1775 - Horatio Gates issues an order excluding blacks from werving in the Continental Army.
1832 - President Jackson vetoes proposed legislation to re-charter the 2nd Bank of the U.S.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes President in the wake of Zachary Taylor's death.
1890 - Wyoming becomes the 44th U.S. state.
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1918 - The Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic is established.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the U.S. Senate.
1923 - Italy dissolves all non-fascist political parties.
1925 - Jury selection occurs in the in John T. Scopes evolution trial (The "Monkey Trial").
1925 - TASS, the U.S.S.R.'s official news agency, is established.
1926 - An arsenal in Lake Denmark, NJ explodes, killing 21, and causing $75 million in damage.
1929 - The U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency.
1934 - FDR visits Columbia, becoming the first sitting U.S. President to visit South America.
1940 - The Battle of Britain begins, as Nazi forces are attacked by air.
1943 - U.S. and British forces invade Sicily.
1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War begin at Kaesong.
1962 - Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
1973 - The Bahamas gain independence after three centuries of British rule (National Day)
1985 - The Coca-Cola Co. announces it will resume selling old formula Coke; French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.

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1856 - Nikola Tesla, physicist, developed alternating current
1920 - David Brinkley, NBC News anchor
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton, Nobel Prize winner
1927 - David Dinkins (Mayor-NYC)
1942 - Pyotr I. Klimuk, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30)

Passings
1692 - Bridget Bishop, first to be hanged as a witch in Salem, MA.
1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, author of "A Visit from St. Nick" ("Twas the Night Before Christmas")
1910 - Johann Galle, discoverer of Neptune
1927 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1945 - Robert Goddard, pioneer of modern rocketry
1989 - Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and other Looney Toons characters

Reported Missing in Action
1972
Green, Frank C., Jr., USN (TX); A4F shot down, crash site located, no sign of CDR Green

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