The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Korean War Medal of Honor recipient, Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Joseph Kapaun, has been accounted for.
Kapaun, of Pilsen, Kansas, served as a chaplain with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On Nov. 2, 1950, the 3rd Battalion was near Unsan when the unit came under heavy fire and received orders to withdraw.
Eventually surrounded and besieged by Chinese Communist Forces, unit members became trapped and dug inside foxholes or behind bunkers. Kapaun stayed with the wounded but was soon captured and marched from village to village, with little food and shelter, to Old Pyoktong, later known as Chinese Camp 5, on the south bank of the Yalu River.
Medal of Honor recipient, a chaplain who died in captivity, identified among Korean War remains
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Defense officials identify remains of Army Chaplain Emil Kapaun, killed in Korean War
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Medal of Honor recipient, a chaplain who died in captivity, identified among Korean War remains March 5 Chaplain (Capt.) Emil J. Kapaun leads Mass using the hood of his jeep in place of an altar on Oct. 7, 1950, less than a month before he was captured. (Col. Raymond A. Skeehan via The Wichita Eagle courtesy DPAA via AP) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of Chaplain (Capt.) Emil J. Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who died as a prisoner of war in Korea. Kapaun was identified on Mar. 2, the DPAA announced Friday. His remains were among the 867 buried as “Unknowns” at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, according to a DPAA news release.