Rowland, Jimmy
Army Private 1st class

Jimmy Rowland from Mississippi, Prentiss county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, July 16, 1950
Death details: On November 5, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Jimmy Rowland, missing from the Korean War. Private First Class Rowland entered the U.S. Army from Mississippi and served with the Heavy Mortar Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. On July 16, 1950, he went missing in action during the Battle of Kum River, as his unit was attempting to withdraw through an enemy roadblock outside Taejon, South Korea. He was not seen again, and none of the remains recovered immediately following the incident could be identified as PFC Rowland’s. In February of 1951, four sets of remains were recovered near a bridge located west of the main Seoul-Taejon supply route. Three of these remains were identified; however, the fourth set could not be identified at the time and were eventually buried as unknown remains at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP) in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2018, the DPAA began an effort to identify all of the unknown remains buried in the NMCP associated with the Korean War. The unknown remains recovered near the bridge were disinterred as part of this effort and accessioned into the DPAA laboratory. Using dental and anthropological analysis, DPAA scientists identified the remains as those of PFC Rowland.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency