Operation Glory was an American effort to
repatriate
Repatriation is the process of returning a thing or a person to its country of origin or citizenship. The term may refer to non-human entities, such as converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country, as well as to the pro ...
the remains of
United Nations Command
United Nations Command (UNC or UN Command) is the multinational military force established to support the Republic of Korea (South Korea) during and after the Korean War. It was the first international unified command in history, and the first a ...
casualties from North Korea at the end of the
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...
. The
Korean Armistice Agreement
The Korean Armistice Agreement ( ko, 한국정전협정 / 조선정전협정; zh, t=韓國停戰協定 / 朝鮮停戰協定) is an armistice that brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United Sta ...
of July 1953 called for the repatriation of all casualties and prisoners of war, and through September and October 1954 the
Graves Registration Service Command received the remains of approximately 4,000 casualties.
[ Note: the calculation of remains comes from Coleman as the "Historical Summary" gives a total of 4,023 UN remains received.] Of the 1,868 American remains, 848 unidentified remains were buried as "
unknowns" at the
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (informally known as Punchbowl Cemetery) is a national cemetery located at Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu, Hawaii. It serves as a memorial to honor those men and women who served in the United St ...
in Hawaii.
Some of the remains came from the temporary
military cemeteries in North Korea that had been abandoned as Chinese forces pushed US forces out of North Korea.
Public ceremonies involving delivery of the returned remains included honor guards.
Also exchanged were the remains of approximately 14,000 North Korean and Chinese casualties.
See also
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Recovery of US human remains from the Korean War
The recovery of US human remains from the Korean War has continued since the end of the war.
; Death Valley Camp
More than 36,000 American troops died during the Korean War (1950–1953). As of 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency descri ...
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United Nations Memorial Cemetery
The United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea (UNMCK; ), located at Tanggok in the Nam District,; also seeKorea 1:50,000 Pusan Sheet 7019 III (1947) an City of Busan,As a transliteration from Korean, the city name 부산 () was typically spel ...
– in Busan, South Korea
References
Further reading
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* A description of the post-recovery processing of casualties undertaken at
Kokura
is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen li ...
, Japan, in which the remains were identified and prepared for repatriation.
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1954 in North Korea
Aftermath of the Korean War
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