Dorser, Jimmie Leonard
Army Private 1st class

Jimmie Leonard Dorser, age 17, from Missouri, Greene county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, December 3, 1950
Death details: On December 13, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Jimmie Leonard Dorser, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Dorser joined the U.S. Army from Missouri and was a member of I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. In late November 1950, his unit was positioned east of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. On November 27, Chinese Communist Forces launched a large-scale surprise attack against U.S. forces in the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir, forcing a southward withdrawal. CPL Dorser was lost during the fighting withdrawal from Chosin. His remains could not be recovered at the time of his loss, and he was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody immediately after the ceasefire. In 2002, a joint U.S. and North Korean investigative team excavated a mass grave on the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir. Analysts were eventually able to identify CPL Dorser from among these remains. Corporal Dorser is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency