Arce, Charles
Army Private 1st Class

Charles Arce, age 19, from New York, Kings county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On January 20, 2011, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Charles Arce, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Arce entered the U.S. Army from New York and served with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 1, 1950, he was with members of Company M along the Nammyon River in North Korea, near a bend known as the “Camel’s Head Bend,” when Chinese Communist Forces attacked the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines. The men were forced to withdraw toward Ipsok, near Unsan, and CPL Arce did not survive this action. No specific details surrounding his loss are known, and his body was not located or recovered at the time. In 2007, the North Korean government repatriated the human remains of U.S. service members correlating to CPL Arce’s loss area in Pyongan Province, and U.S. analysts used modern forensic technology to identify CPL Arce from these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency