Storms, Harvey Harrell
Army Major

Harvey H. Storms from Texas, Cameron county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Friday, December 1, 1950

Death details: 

On July 29, 2019, the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) accounted for Maj. Harvey Harrell Storms, missing from the Korean War.

Storms entered the U.S. Army from Texas and served as the Executive Officer of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He fought with the 31st Regimental Combat Team on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in late November and early December 1950. On December 1, he was wounded during assaults against Hill 1221 where Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) had dug entrenchments to prevent Storms’ unit from withdrawing to Hagaru-ri. He was reportedly killed while leading an attack, but CCF roadblocks prevented trucks carrying wounded and dead soldiers from reaching friendly lines south of the reservoir, and Storms’ body was not recovered. In 2018, the North Korean government returned 55 boxes of human remains to the United States, including one set of remains recovered from Sinhung-ri on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir. These remains were brought to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, where scientists used forensic tools including DNA comparisons to identify Storms’ remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency