Jones, Lotchie John Ray
Army Private

Lotchie John Ray Jones from Tennessee, Marion county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On February 6, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Lotchie John Ray Jones, missing from the Korean War. Private First Class Jones, who entered the U.S. Army from Tennessee, was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was taken as a prisoner of war while fighting the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 2, 1950, and died of unknown causes while held at POW Camp 5, near Pyoktong on February 28, 1951. In 1954, as a part of Operation Glory, his remains were repatriated to the U.S. but could not be identified at the time and were subsequently interned as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2014, advances in forensic techniques prompted the reexamination of PFC Jones’s remains, and they were successfully identified.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Chattanooga Daily Times (1950