Army Pfc. Thomas C. Stagg, killed in the Korean War, has now been accounted for.
On Nov. 29, 1950, Stagg was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment, on a reconnaissance patrol. The patrol encountered an enemy ambush near Hajoyang-ni, North Korea. Following the battle, Stagg could not be accounted for and he was declared killed in action.
Between 1990 and 1994, North Korea returned 208 boxes of commingled human remains to the United States, which we determined to contain the remains of at least 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents included in the repatriation indicate that some of the remains were recovered from the vicinity where Stagg was believed to have died.
Laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence were used in the identification of his remains.
Interment services are pending.