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CPL John Lane Jr.
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CPL John Lane Jr.

Birth
El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Death
31 Jul 1950 (aged 18)
Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Monument
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
Plot
Courts of the Missing
Memorial ID
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* ACCOUNTED FOR 3 May 2017!!!

Corporal Lane, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division was Killed in Action during the Korean War. After fighing with enemy forces in South Korea on the Pusan Perimeter near the town of Chinju (Jinju) he was listed as Missing in Action on 31 July 1950. On December 31, 1953, his status was changed from Missing in Action to Presumed Dead. Lane's name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing.

Human remains were discovered by the Chinju Sanitation Department in 1987 that were believed to be American while they were moving graves from an old cemetery for construction purposes. The remains were turned over to the Americans and sent to the Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. They arrived there in June 1987. The remains were positively identified as John Lane, Jr on 3 May 2017 and were released to his next of kin that had given the DNA sample to confirm his identity. He was interred at the Mountain Home National Cemetery, Mountain Home, Tennessee in Section TT, Site 106 on Monday, 17 July 2017.

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* ACCOUNTED FOR 3 May 2017!!!

Corporal Lane, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division was Killed in Action during the Korean War. After fighing with enemy forces in South Korea on the Pusan Perimeter near the town of Chinju (Jinju) he was listed as Missing in Action on 31 July 1950. On December 31, 1953, his status was changed from Missing in Action to Presumed Dead. Lane's name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing.

Human remains were discovered by the Chinju Sanitation Department in 1987 that were believed to be American while they were moving graves from an old cemetery for construction purposes. The remains were turned over to the Americans and sent to the Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. They arrived there in June 1987. The remains were positively identified as John Lane, Jr on 3 May 2017 and were released to his next of kin that had given the DNA sample to confirm his identity. He was interred at the Mountain Home National Cemetery, Mountain Home, Tennessee in Section TT, Site 106 on Monday, 17 July 2017.

Welcome Home Our Brave Soldier...

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