Coleman, James Allen
Army Sergeant 1st class

James Allen Coleman, age 22, from Indiana, Vermillion county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Wednesday, April 25, 1951
Death details: On May 23, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class James Allen Coleman, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant First Class Coleman entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and was a member of I Company, 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. On April 25, 1951, he was reported missing in action near Chipori, South Korea, after an enemy mortar shell struck his location. The tactical situation at the time prevented search efforts for SFC Coleman or his remains at the time of his loss. In April of 1953, an American Graves Registration Service Group recovered remains from the village of Tumun-gol, South Korea, in an area corresponding with the 19th Infantry Regiment’s fighting in April 1951. This set of remains was determined to be unidentifiable, and was buried as an unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2019, as part of the larger effort to disinter and identify all Korean War unknowns, this set of remains were disinterred and accessioned into the DPAA laboratory. Circumstantial evidence and laboratory analysis established the remans as those of SFC Coleman. Sergeant First Class Coleman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency