WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Joshua Corruth, 20, of Pompano Beach, Florida, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for March 13, 2025.
Corruth's family recently received their full briefing on his identification, therefore, additional details on his identification can be shared.
In October 1950, Corruth was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on Oct. 8 near Kwang-ju, Republic of Korea. The U.S. Army did not receive any information during or after the war to indicate Corruth was ever held as a prisoner of war and issued a presumptive finding of death as of Dec. 31, 1952. On Jan. 16, 1956, he was declared non-recoverable.
In the fall of 1953, during Operation Glory, a team from the 114th Quartermaster Graves Registration Service Company recovered a set of unknown remains near a temple in the South Korean village of Tae Jung-ri. Those remains were transported to the United Nations Memorial Cemetery Tanggok for processing. Unable to associate the remains with any missing service member, they were designated as Unknown X-6050 and later transferred to the Central Identification Unit at Kokura, Japan, for reprocessing. In late 1956 all unidentified remains, including X-6050, were buried as Unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In December, DPAA personnel disinterred Unknown X-6050 as part of Phase One of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Corruth’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis, mitochondrial genome sequencing data, and nuclear single nucleotide polymorphism.
Corruth’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.
Corruth will be buried in Lake Worth, Florida, on April 23, 2026.
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.
Corruth’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000m22B4EAI.
Corruth’s initial ID announcement can be read at: https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4130646/soldier-accounted-for-from-korean-war-corruth-j/.