Peter William Simon, age 34, from Pennsylvania, Fayette county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, September 5, 1950
Death details: On January 11, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Pete William Simon, missing from the Korean War. Private First Class Simon joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and was a member of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On September 3, 1950, he was killed in action against North Korean People’s Army forces south of Tabu-dong, South Korea. Search efforts conducted in the area once it returned to Allied control later that month failed to locate PFC Simon’s remains. In May 1951, American Graves Registration Personnel recovered a set of remains near Hill 762 in South Korea. The remains could not be identified at the time, and were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific as unknowns. In 2017, these remains were reexamined and identified as those of PFC Simon. Private First Class Simon is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com