The remains of a WWII soldier have been positively identified as 21-year-old Army Pfc. Worley D. Jacks of Rutland, Ohio, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
have been positively identified as 21-year-old Army Pfc. Worley D. Jacks of Rutland, Ohio, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency .
Jacks was assigned to Company L, 232nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division, and was reported missing in action on March 7, 1945, after his unit became engaged in battle againstJacks' body was never recovered and he was never reported as a prisoner of war by the Germans. The War Department later declared him killed in action on Oct. 4, 1945.
The American Graves Registration Command was asked to investigate and recover any missing American personnel from Europe following the end of the war. Jacks was declared non-recoverable due to the department's failure to find a body or remains. In 1951, a German War Graves Commission discovered a set of remains with Jacks' ID tags in a military cemetery near Ludwigswinkel, Germany - 14 miles northeast of where Jacks originally went missing.
Authorities were confused as to why the ID'ed remains were found 14 miles away from where Jacks went missing, and he was ultimately ruled non-recoverable in 1951 due to the discrepancy. X-8515's remains were buried at what is today Brittany American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in
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