Lab works to solve Korean War MIA mysteries
Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/12/gns_hawaii_mia_lab_122909/
{EXCERPT} , By William Cole - Honolulu Advertiser via Gannett News Service Posted : Tuesday Dec 29, 2009 7:03:15 EST
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii � The mottled brown skull and other remains � a lower jaw with eight teeth and a pair of fillings, seven right side ribs, part of a pelvis and some arm and leg bones � showed evidence of dirt and looked like they were
buried at one time.
It�s up to forensic anthropologists like Gregory Berg to build from the ground up the U.S. service member who died in North Korea more than half a century ago.
There are plenty of challenges to doing so faced by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, but there�s been a big advance relating to Korean War fallen, and a new Pentagon impetus to speed up all identifications.
In September, the Hawai
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