WASHINGTON (AP) -- The remains of a soldier from Illinois, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial in Iowa with full military honors.
Army Sgt. First Class Wallace Slight of Yates City was 24 when he died. He will be buried Friday in Van Meter, Iowa.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office says that on Nov. 1, 1950, Slight was among troops attacked while occupying a defensive position in North Korea. Nearly 400 men were killed or reported missing following the battle.
In the early 1990s, North Korea gave the United States more than 200 boxes believed to contain the remains U.S. servicemen. Analysts used documents, eyewitness accounts, dental records and DNA to identify Slight's remains.
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