Operation Glory
Operation Glory was an American effort to
Graves Registration Service Command received the remains of approximately 4,000 casualties.[1][2][3][4] Of the 1,868 American remains, 848 unidentified remains were buried as "unknowns" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.[5]
Some of the remains came from the temporary
military cemeteries in North Korea that had been abandoned as Chinese forces pushed US forces out of North Korea.[6] Public ceremonies involving delivery of the returned remains included honor guards.[6] Also exchanged were the remains of approximately 14,000 North Korean and Chinese casualties.[7]
See also
- Recovery of US human remains from the Korean War
- United Nations Memorial Cemetery – in Busan, South Korea
References
- from the original on 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
- Army Quartermaster Museum. July–December 2004. Archived from the originalon 2007-12-28. Retrieved 2013-11-11. Note: the calculation of remains comes from Coleman as the "Historical Summary" gives a total of 4,023 UN remains received.
- OCLC 831669354. Archived from the originalon 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
During Operation GLORY, 1,879 sets of remains were returned. Of those, 1,020 were positively identified, and another 859 unidentified remains were declared unknown casualties.
- Busan, South Koreawere recovered during Operation Glory.
- PMID 20503915.
- ^ OCLC 60527603.
- (PDF) from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
Further reading
- Cannon, Florence (May–June 1952). "Our Honored Dead". The Quartermaster Review. United States Quartermaster Museum & The Memorial Day Foundation.
- Cook, James C. (March–April 1953). "Graves Registration in the Korean Conflict". The Quartermaster Review. Army Quartermaster Museum. Archived from the originalon 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
- Lee, Chungsun (15 Jun 2022). "Between Visible and Invisible Deaths of the Korean War: Re-envisioning Operation Glory (1954) at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea". International Journal of Military History and Historiography. -1 (aop). Leiden: Koninklijke S2CID 250368533.
- "Factsheet: POW March Routes and U.N. Cemeteries". Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. November 24, 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Martz, John D. (May–June 1954). "Homeward Bound". Quartermaster Review. Fort Lee, VA: US Army Quartermaster Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. A description of the post-recovery processing of casualties undertaken at Kokura, Japan, in which the remains were identified and prepared for repatriation.