Albany Indiana

Clark, Gene Franklin
Army Corporal

Gene Franklin Clark, age 21, from Albany, Indiana, Delaware county.

Parents: Fred A. Clark

Service era: Korea
Schools: DeSoto High (1947), Ball State College

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On March 11, 2008, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Gene Franklin Clark, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Clark entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and served in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was killed in action on November 2, 1950, as his unit’s position along a bend in the Nammyon River known as “Camel’s Head Bend” was overrun by Chinese Communist Forces during the Battle of Unsan. He was buried near the area of his loss, but his remains were not returned to the U.S. immediately following the war. In 1993, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of several U.S. service members recovered from near Unsan, and in 2008, analysts were able to successfully identify SGT Clark from among these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Muncie Evening Press

Miller, Charles Donald
Marines Reserves Private

Charles Donald Miller, age 19, from Albany, Indiana, Delaware county.

Parents: Don Miller

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Monday, November 22, 1943
Death details: On May 19, 2020, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Charles Donald Miller, missing from World War II. Private First Class Miller, who entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Indiana, served with Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. He was killed in action by enemy gunshots to his head and chest on November 22, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. PFC Miller’s remains were recovered and buried at the time of his loss, in Row D of Cemetery 33 on Betio Island; however, investigations did not identify PFC Miller’s remains among those recovered from the Betio burial sites following the close of the war. In 2019, the private organization History Flight, Inc., recovered remains from a burial trench identified as Row D of Cemetery 33 on Betio. The remains were accessioned into a DPAA laboratory and based on the historical record and circumstances of PFC Miller’s loss and burial, and also using modern forensic techniques, an association was made that identified the remains as those of PFC Miller.
Cemetery: Arilington National

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

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