Worline, Clark E.
Army Private 1st class

Clark E. Worline from Ohio, Fulton county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, November 26, 1950
Death details: On September 9, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Clark Ellis Worline, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Worline entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and served in C Company, 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion. On November 26, 1950, he was reported missing in action after a battle against the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces (CPVF) in the vicinity of Sinjang, North Korea. Although CPL Worline’s exact fate is unknown, later evidence suggests that was captured and taken to POW Camp 5, Pyoktong, North Korea. During Operation GLORY, the postwar exchange of war dead, 495 sets of remains from burial grounds around POW Camp 5 were returned to United Nations Command. All but 38 were identified. Those remains were buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In August 2019, as part of a planned exhumation of Project GLORY burials originating from Camp 5, one set of remains was disinterred and sent to a DPAA laboratory for further study.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency