Pearl F. Barrow, age 36, from Wichita, Kansas, Sedgwick county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, November 20, 1944
Death details: On January 9, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private Pearl F. Barrow, missing from World War II. Private Barrow entered the U.S. Army from Kansas, and served as a rifleman with Company F, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. In November of 1944, he was killed in action against German forces near the Hurtgen Forest, and his body could not be recovered. Investigations of the area after the war failed to locate or identify PVT Barrow’s remains. In 2017, a DPAA historian determined that a set of unidentified remains recovered in 1948 were possibly related to PVT Barrow. The remains were disinterred from the Ardennes American Cemetery and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Base, Nebraska. Laboratory analysis allowed the DPAA to identify the remains as those of PVT Barrow.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency