Larry Martin Dunn, age 18, from Cullman County Cullman, Alabama .
Parents: His mother died from tuberculosis when he was about 11.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 1, 1950
Death details: On July 16, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Larry Martin Dunn, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Dunn joined the U.S. Army from Alabama and was a member of B Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On December 1, 1950, he went missing in action while fighting through an enemy roadblock near Sonchu, North Korea. In September 1954, North Korean officials returned a set of remains to U.S. custody that included those of CPL Dunn; however, they could not be identified at the time, and were buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Advances in forensic technology eventually prompted the re-analysis and identification of CPL Dunn’s remains. Corporal Dunn is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Cullman County
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Dothan Eagle (2016)
