![]() John L. Hoey Private First Class, United States Army |
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John
L. Hoey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Born 1930 Private First Class, U.S. Army Service Number 13267327 Missing in Action - Presumed Dead Died November 2, 1950 in Korea Private First Class Hoey was a member of Company
E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was seriously
wounded by the enemy in South Korea on September 4, 1950 and returned to
duty on September 6, 1950.
He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting
the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 2, 1950. He was presumed
dead on December 31, 1953. Private First Class Hoey was awarded the Purple
Heart with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Korean
Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service
Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense No. 764-06 IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2006 Media Contact: (703) 697-5131/697-5132 Public/Industry(703) 428-0711 Soldier Missing in Action From the Korean War is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Corporal Edward F. Blazejewski, U.S. Army, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. on Friday, 11 August 2006. Blazejewski was assigned to Medical Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, when his unit came under heavy artillery attack by Chinese forces near Unsan, North Korea, on November 1, 1950. During the attack, Corporal Blazejewski and other soldiers killed in action were left behind when their unit moved to a previous defensive position. A U.S. soldier who had been held as a prisoner of war by the North Koreans told debriefers that Blazejewski and others had been killed by a grenade explosion. In August 1997, a joint U.S.-North Korean team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated a site in Pyongan Province believed to contain the remains of several U.S. soldiers. Remains representing four men were recovered, as well as an identification tag and a denture, neither of which were associated with Blazejewski. The other three soldiers were identified and buried in 2000. Buried at Arlington were Sergeant James T. Higgins, Benham, Kentucky; and Private First Class John L. Hoey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sergeant Andrew Ernandis, Brooklyn, New York, was buried in Hicksville, N.Y. Group remains representing all four soldiers will also be buried Friday at Arlington. Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Blazejewski's remains, matching a DNA sequence from a maternal relative. For additional information on the Defense Department's
mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO
web site or call (703) 699-1169.
HOEY, JOHN L PFC US ARMY KOREA DATE OF BIRTH: 02/26/1930 DATE OF DEATH: 12/31/1953 BURIED AT: SECTION 66 SITE 6298 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 10 August 2006 |
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