Elmore, Joe Stanton
Army Private

Joe S. Elmore from Kentucky, Clinton county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Saturday, December 2, 1950
Death details:  On July 3, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Joe Stanton Elmore, missing from the Korean War.

Private First Class Elmore entered the U.S. Army from Kentucky and was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was killed in action by Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) on December 2, 1950, as his unit withdrew from positions near Sinhung-ni, North Korea, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. In 1995, the North Korean government repatriated a set of human remains inaccurately identified as those of a British Army service member to the British government, who in turn transferred the remains to the U.S. for analysis. Analyses conducted at the time were unable to identify these remains. In 2018, these remains were re-analyzed using modern forensic techniques and were successfully identified as those of PFC Elmore. 

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency