Everett Eugene Johnson, age 21, from Ohio, Hamilton county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, September 3, 1950
Death details: On July 20, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Everett Eugene Johnson, missing from the Korean War. PFC Johnson joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On September 3, 1950, he was killed in action against North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) forces northwest of Taegu, South Korea. PFC Johnson’s body could not be recovered at the time of his loss. In May 1951, his remains were recovered from a mass grave near Pultang, South Korea; however, they could not be identified with the tools available at the time, and they were buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In 2014, advances in forensic techniques and family requests prompted the reexamination and identification of PFC Johnson’s remains. Private First Class Johnson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency