Press Release | Sept. 19, 2024

Solider Accounted for from Korean War (Wheeler, W.)

Washington  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class William A. Wheeler, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for August 27, 2024.

In September 1950, Wheeler was a member of Company H, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in combat actions with the enemy along the Naktong River in the vicinity of Yongsan, South Korea, on Sept. 1. Due to intense fighting in the area, his body could not be recovered at that time. The exact circumstances of his death were unknown, but the U.S. Army determined him to be killed in action on Oct. 25, 1950.