WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Jack M. Cash, 19, of Broken Bow, Nebraska killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 26, 2024.
Cash's family recently received their full briefing on is identification, therefore, additional details on his identification can be shared.
In September 1950, Cash was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in combat actions with the North Korean People's Army along the Naktong River in the vicinity of Yongsan, South Korea, on Sept. 1. The exact circumstances of his death were unknown, and the U.S. Army determined him to be nonrecoverable on Dec. 31, 1953.
In September 1950, members from the 565th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company recovered X-2005 near Masan-ni, South Korea. Local villagers interviewed during the recovery reported discovering the remains near the Naktong Bulge area. At the time of this recovery, X-2005 could not be positively identified and after several attempts at identification, those remains were buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
In May 2021, DPAA personnel disinterred Unknown X-2005 as part of Phase 3 of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Cash’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as other circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Cash’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Cash's funeral service will be in Calimesa, California in July 2025.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving their country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa, https://www.linkedin.com/company/dodpaa, https://www.instagram.com/dodpaa/, or https://x.com/dodpaa.
Cash’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000zmQm0EAE.
Read Cash's initial ID announcement here: Cash.