Army Corporal R.B. Cherry was reported missing in action on November 27, 1950, near Anju, North Korea. The 19-year-old Dallas native died of pneumonia while a prisoner of war. Friday, his remains were finally buried back home.
The remains of an American soldier who died in the Korean War were buried at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery Friday.
Cherry was part of an all- Black division in a segregated army fighting North Koreans. He was held at a place called Camp Five, where he suffered in the elements dying from pneumonia in 1950. He was buried near the camp.Cherry initially was not identified. He was interred as X-13460 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
Seventy years after being taken prisoner, X-13460 was disinterred and identified in 2020 as corporal R.B. Cherry using mitochondrial DNA."It's inherited through a maternal lineage so any maternal ancestor can be used to match to it," she said. "It’s self-explanatory. Mitochondrial DNA even in remains like these war-dead, they hold up over time so that can be used for matches.""They were gonna send me to the same place where he had got killed," he said.
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