Trick, James I.
Army Private

James I. Trick from Pennsylvania, Lycoming county.

Service era: World War II
Military history: 109 Infantry 28 Division

Date of death: Saturday, November 4, 1944
Death details: On July 8, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Private James I. Trick, missing from World War II. Private Trick entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. He was mortally wounded by shell fragments on November 4, 1944, while bringing supplies to his unit’s positions near Germeter, Germany. His body was not immediately recovered and he was reported missing. In 1947, an American Graves Registration Service investigator recovered Private Trick’s remains and transferred them to Neuville, Belgium; however, they could not be individually identified at the time, and he was buried as an unknown in the Ardennes American Cemetery in 1949. Based on the recovery location of these remains and the historical record of combat in the northern sector of the Hürtgen Forest, DPAA analysts associated these remains with Private Trick, and his remains were exhumed in June 2018 and taken to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Eventually, modern forensic tools were able to successfully identify the remains as those of Private Trick.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency