URBANA, Ohio — The remains of an Ohio soldier who was killed during the Korean War have been identified.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said recently that Army Cpl. Charles E. Hiltibran, 19, of Cable, Ohio, was accounted for April 20, 2020. He will be buried in Urbana in Champaign County. A date for the burial has not yet been determined.
Hiltibran was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, when his unit — Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division — was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, the agency said.
His remains could not be recovered after the battle, the agency said.
North Korea returned Hiltibran’s remains and others in dozens of boxes in 2018, officials said.
“On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War,” the agency said on its website.
Hiltibran’s remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification, officials said.
Agency scientists used and scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used anthropological analysis, circumstantial evidence and DNA to identify the remains.
