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To: vva@vva2.talklist.com
Subject: VVA: MIA recovery update, copied from VFW newsletter.
From: vva@vva2.talklist.com
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 08:06:53 -0600
 

9. MIA Recovery Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced burial updates for two soldiers, and the identification of remains of a third. Returned home are: -- Army Sgt. Robert C. Dakin, 22, will be buried with full military honors on Dec. 12 in his hometown of Waltham, Mass. He was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, when he was lost fighting near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea on Dec. 12, 1950. Read more at: http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/NewsReleases/tabid/10159/Article/632648/soldier-missing-from-korean-war-accounted-for-dakin.aspx. -- Army Sgt. 1st Class Billy D. Hill, 21, of Wichita, Kan., will be buried with full military honors on Dec. 17, in Killeen, Texas. Hill was assigned as a helicopter gunner on a UH-1D that was shot down on Jan. 21, 1968. He was assigned to the 282nd Aviation Company, 14th Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. Read more at: http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/NewsReleases/tabid/10159/Article/633635/soldier-missing-from-vietnam-war-accounted-for-hill.aspx. -- Identified is Army Pfc. David S. Burke, 21, of Summit County, Ohio, who was lost fighting in North Korea on Nov. 27, 1950. He was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, and will be buried with full military honors on a date and location yet to be announced. Ken Riskedahl Tupelo, MS.
9. MIA Recovery Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced burial updates for two soldiers, and the identification of remains of a third. Returned home are:
-- Army Sgt. Robert C. Dakin, 22, will be buried with full military honors on Dec. 12 in his hometown of Waltham, Mass. He was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, when he was lost fighting near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea on Dec. 12, 1950. Read more at: http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/NewsReleases/tabid/10159/Article/632648/soldier-missing-from-korean-war-accounted-for-dakin.aspx.
-- Army Sgt. 1st Class Billy D. Hill, 21, of Wichita, Kan., will be buried with full military honors on Dec. 17, in Killeen, Texas. Hill was assigned as a helicopter gunner on a UH-1D that was shot down on Jan. 21, 1968. He was assigned to the 282nd Aviation Company, 14th Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. Read more at: http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/NewsReleases/tabid/10159/Article/633635/soldier-missing-from-vietnam-war-accounted-for-hill.aspx.
-- Identified is Army Pfc. David S. Burke, 21, of Summit County, Ohio, who was lost fighting in North Korea on Nov. 27, 1950. He was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, and will be buried with full military honors on a date and location yet to be announced.
Ken Riskedahl
Tupelo, MS.

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