the deceased (usually from the same organization) is sent for to personally examine the remains and sign a Certificate of Identity to establish the real name of the deceased. As a rule, stated Lieutenant Wurz, there are no discrepancies on the EMT, and, additionally, the remains generally have dog tags on them.

Following the checking and recording of data, remains are placed in the GRS morgue, which at?present is simply a small plot of ground adjacent to the 2d US Infantry Division MSR surrounded by?a wall of canvas and posted as off limits to?unauthorized personnel. Here the remains are laid in the Human Remains Pouches, which are rubber bags with a zipper that runs the entire length on?one side of the bag. The EMT for each body?is placed in the bag alongside the remains in a small glass bottle. The reason for inserting the EMT in a bottle is this: Due to the frequent presence of blood, dirt, and other matter in the?bag, the placing of the paper EMT in the bag without protection would likely cause the writing?to quickly become illegible, and hence useless.

Remaining at the 2d US Infantry Division GRS?morgue usually less than 24 hours, the bodies of?soldiers killed begin thence their journey through various channels and collecting points until?they finally arrive in the United States. When a?sufficient number of bodies are received at the?collecting point they are loaded on 21 -ton trucks and sent to UMYANG-NI Korea, where one?platoon of the 148th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company is located. This platoon operates a corps collecting point for the 2d US Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division much in the manner of the 2d US Infantry Division?collecting point.

Accompanying?the bodies to UMYANG-NI is an Evacuation List, which lists by name, rank, organization and Army Serial Number the bodies carried.?This letter, according to Lieutenant Wurz, acts as a letter of transmittal to the corps collecting?point.

Not only do American soldiery remains go through the 2d US Infantry

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Division?collecting?point, but also all attached troops and whatever?Koreans, military or civilian, which are not taken?care of by Korean Army graves registration?personnel. The French and Netherlands Battalions, which are attached to the 2d US Infantry?Division, receive GRS service the same as American?troops

When bodies arrive at the platoon of the 148th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company at UMYANG-NI, they go out of the control of the 2d US Infantry Division GRO, and become the responsibility of the 8th US Army unit. At UMYANG-NI the corps collecting point employs, according to Sergeant Deisenroth and Lieutenant Wurz, approximately the same method in sending the bodies received in X Corps to HONGCHON, which is a collecting point for bodies from both X Corps and IX Corps. From HONGCHON, remains are further sent to WONJU, headquarters of the 148th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, where the fingertips of the deceased men are embalmed and fingerprints taken for later positive identification. From WONJU the bodies are sent by rail to PUSAN, after having been packed in ice for preservation at the former named point. From PUSAN, bodies are aunt to KOKURA, Kyushu Island, Japan, where at the American Graves Registration Group, 8204th Army Unit, the bodies are further identified by means of expert anthropology, chemistry, dental charts, records of broken bones, etc., and are then embalmed totally. From KOKURA, stated Sergeant Deisenroth and Lieutenant Wurz, the bodies are dispatched to the United States for burial, either in a United States military cemetery or at the soldiers' homes. No bodies are now being buried in either Korea or Japan, stated Lieutenant Wurz and Sergeant Deisenroth, and all are being repatriated to the United States.

The Personal Effects Section of the 2d US Infantry Division GRS operates a point parallel but not altogether analogous to the associated body collecting point. The Personal Effects Section?is located with the Graves Registration Collecting Point at OEJOK-KOL (DT1622) and collects

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and?sends through proper channels personal belongings of persons in the following four classifications: KIA, MIA, WIA, and evacuated through medical channels. Goods belonging to personnel in the?2d US Infantry Division sector who which fit into?the above classifications are sent from divisional units to the Personal Effects Section?accompanied by an AR 600-550 form, made out in the unit from which the person killed or evacuated was assigned; and which lists all of the personal?effects belonging to the man concerned.

These personal effects are divided on the AR 600-550 form into two?categories: Class I, which includes items of?trophy, keepsake, or sentimental value, such as sabers, insignia, decorations, medals, campaign citations, watches, etc., and Class II, which includes items of specific value, such as money, bank?drafts, money orders, personal effects, billfolds, etc. Those forms are usually made out either?by the commanding officer of the man concerned or by the Personal Effects Officer of the unit concerned. It is, however, required that a commissioned?officer sign the form, certifying to the totals of property possessed by the soldier killed or?evacuated

"Every specific?thing belonging to men killed or evacuated is itemized," related Corporal Imwalle, "whether it be two?pennies or fifteen pictures." If money received belonging to the individual concerned is $4.99 or?less, it is sent through with other belongings?exactly as found—American Military Script, won, or American currency. If the amount found is $5.00 or over, it is converted into a United States Treasury Check. There is one exception to this?rule on the changing of money: If a man is evacuated through medical channels, money in not?changed, no matter what its total value, related Lieutenant?Wurz

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A maximum of eight days is allowed before personal effects of a person KIA or evacuated with wounds or sickness is sent through the Personal Effects Section. The maximum time lag in the case of men MIA is from 20 to 30 days. At the Personal Effects Section, upon receipt of personal belongings and AR 600-550, all items are checked and verified, and then sent through the regular evacuation system to the rear

Personal effects are received at the Personal Effects Section in a box or boxes, and this box or boxes must be banded and sealed after the contents have been officially ascertained at the section in order that their [sic] will be no opportunity for any of the articles belonging to the soldier?concerned to be lost. Following a checking of the?articles, personal effects are evacuated much the same as are remains, going through the same collecting points to WONJU, then being sent to the 55th Base Quartermaster Depot at PUSAN and sent from there to Japan, arriving ultimately?at YOKOHAMA at the 8083d Quartermaster Effects?Depot, where the articles are sent to Effects Officer in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Here goods are again checked and finally distributed to next of?kin