Givens, Jacob W.
Army Private

Jacob W. Givens from Ohio, Richland county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Friday, October 20, 1944
Death details: On June 17, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Private Jacob W. Givens, missing from World War II. Private Givens entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and served in Company K, 60th Infantry, 9th Division during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. On October 20, 1944, Private Givens was reported missing in action after his platoon attacked a German position near Germeter, Germany. His body could not be immediately recovered due to the active battlefield. Following the war, the site of Private Given’s remains was discovered by a German woodcutter who led an American Graves Registration Service team there. Private Givens’s remains could not be identified at the time, and he was interred as an unknown in the Ardennes American Cemetery. In 2018, a DPAA multidisciplinary analysis prompted the disinterment of Private Givens’s remains. Forensic analysis eventually led to the identification of the remains as those of Private Givens.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency