With limited logistics and no hope of reinforcement, 30,000 UN soldiers faced over 120,000 Chinese troops in a battle considered one of the most brutal of the Korean War.
A lack of proof and a mother’s faithSoon after the war, the opposing nations embarked on Operation Glory, a 1954 exchange of thousands of sets of remains of Korean War dead.
Spruell’s name also was recorded, it said, at the cemetery’s Courts of the Missing, where the names of 8,210 Americans lost in the Korean War were listed when it was dedicated in 1966.
But the brother rarely spoke of the young man last seen halfway around the world near the Chosin Reservoir, said another one of his children, Dennis Spruell.
More recently, it called Dennis Spruell with the news.
Persons:
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CNN, UN, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, Army, Operation, 57th Field Artillery, US Defense Department’s Defense POW, Agency, Memorial, of, Defense POW, Punchbowl, Spruell Defense POW, Army Mortuary
Locations:
Cortez , Colorado, Hagaru, Colorado, Cortez, Korean, Honolulu, cemetery’s, Korea, Japan