View a eulogy for William Stanley Kempen, USMA '49, who passed away on November 28, 1950.
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William Stanley Kempen
West Point, 1949
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Terry Powers on November 3, 2022:
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KOREAN WAR UNITED STATES ARMY Accounted For On February 9, 2004, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of First Lieutenant William Stanley Kempen Jr., missing from the Korean War. First Lieutenant Kempen entered the U.S. Army from Delaware and was a member of Company B of the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team. He was killed in action on November 28, 1950, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, and his body could not be recovered at the time of his loss. Between 2002 and 2003, joint U.S./North Korean teams completed excavations of mass graves found on the eastern shore of the Chosin Reservoir and recovered human remains. Analysts were able to identify 1LT Kempen from among the remains recovered. First Lieutenant Kempen is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000010O2jPEAS |
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