Omans, Marvin Eugene
Army Private 1st class

Marvin Eugene Omans, age 20, from Missouri, Henry county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, December 3, 1950
Death details: On May 21, 2013, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) announced the identification of Corporal Marvin Eugene Omans, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Omans, who entered the U.S. Army from Missouri, was a member of I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, and was a member of the 31st Regimental Combat Team during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. On December 3, 1950, he was killed in action east of the Chosin Reservoir near Sinhung-ri in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, but the exact details of his loss were not known and his remains were not recovered at the time. In the early 1990s, the North Korean government repatriated remains of American service members, including the remains of men recovered from the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir. U.S. analysts eventually were able to identify CPL Omans from among these remains. Corporal Omans is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency