Yanez, Felix M.
Army Private

Felix M. Yanez from Arizona, Cochise county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, July 16, 1950
Death details: 

On July 13, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private Felix Martinez Yanez, missing from the Korean War.

Private Yanez entered the U.S. Army from Arizona and was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. On July 16, 1950, Private Yanez was killed in action while fighting the North Korean People’s Army along the Kum River, north of Taejon, South Korea. His remains could not be recovered at the time of his loss. In March of 1951, a set of unknown remains were recovered near the village of Tuman-ni, South Korea, along the main road that the 19th Infantry Regiment had used to withdraw. The unknown remains were buried at the United Nations Military Cemetery Tanggok before being transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. In August 2019, the DPAA exhumed these unknown remains and accessioned them into the DPAA laboratory for potential identification. Laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence established the unknown remains as those of Private Yanez.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency