The remains of a soldier from New Hampshire who went MIA during the Korean War and later reported to have died in a POW camp was laid to rest recently, several months after being identified.

“It was beautiful, truly beautiful, very touching,” his niece, Carlene Hartford, said following the service in Littleton.

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on December 22, 2022, that Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Donald R. McCloud, 21, of Monaville, WV, killed during WWII, was accounted for on September 23, 2016. 

On December 07, 1941, McCloud was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sust

 PRESS RELEASE | Dec. 16, 2022

WASHINGTON  –   The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Ralph E. Richardson, Jr., 21, of Columbia, South Carolina, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 14, 2022.

In the summer of 1943, Richardson was assigned to the 329th Bombardment Squadron