{"id":78266,"date":"2023-12-21T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/12\/21\/us-historians-identify-a-new-mexico-soldier-killed-during-wwii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:40:16","slug":"us-historians-identify-a-new-mexico-soldier-killed-during-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2023\/12\/21\/us-historians-identify-a-new-mexico-soldier-killed-during-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"US historians identify a New Mexico soldier killed during WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 After years of combing through military records and making some key deductions, a team of U.S. government historians and researchers has finally put a name to case file X-3212, identifying an Army private from eastern New Mexico named Homer Mitchell who died during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency this week&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/News-Stories\/News-Releases\/PressReleaseArticleView\/Article\/3621076\/soldier-accounted-for-from-wwii-mitchell-h\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced the findings,<\/a>&nbsp;which were confirmed by laboratory testing and brought closure to Mitchell\u2019s family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell is one of nearly 160 service members who have been accounted for over the last fiscal year as part of a massive, yearslong effort headed by the federal agency. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/09\/15\/north-koreas-silence-stalls-recovery-of-americas-war-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">list of service members from various conflicts who have yet to be accounted for<\/a> tops 81,000, but officials say more than 37,000 of those \u2014 mostly from WWII \u2014 are considered to be recoverable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each case can take years and involves poring through old reports and medical records, said Sean Everette, who leads outreach and communications for the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work on Mitchell\u2019s case began in 2018. Researchers determined that X-3212 had to be one of three soldiers who went missing in the Pachten Forest along Germany\u2019s western border, with Mitchell being the strongest possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt took nearly three years just for the historical research part. It then took the lab almost two more years before Mitchell could be positively identified,\u201d Everette said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hearing the news was surreal for Mitchell\u2019s family, many of whom are military veterans themselves. Scattered from New Mexico to Oklahoma and Texas, they will be gathering next spring in Portales to bury the soldier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mind-blowing is how his great niece, Sonja Dennin, described the news, noting that it\u2019s been nearly 80 years since Mitchell died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell, the youngest among his siblings, had enlisted in 1943 and underwent training at military bases on the other side of the country before shipping out to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His parents were devastated by his death and the lack of information back then added to the grief, Dennin said Wednesday during a phone interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was so young and it was so painful to them \u2014 the way he was lost and not being able to properly bury him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell, 20, was killed on Dec. 10, 1944 as his battalion was hammered by heavy fire from German forces. The battle came just months after he and tens of thousands of other troops landed in Normandy and began their push toward Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intensity of the mortar and artillery strikes during that December battle made recovering the casualties impossible. It wasn\u2019t until after the war that the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They conducted investigations in the area between 1946 and 1950. They were unable to identify Mitchell\u2019s remains among what was found and officially declared him Killed in Action in November 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was learned that after the battle someone buried Mitchell along with three other soldiers at the civilian cemetery in H\u00fcttersdorf, Germany. Those unidentified remains were eventually interred in France, where they had remained until 2021 when historians were able to solidify the link to Mitchell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work by the agency\u2019s laboratory then ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey do have a methodical way of going about it,\u201d Dennin said, \u201cBut, yes, it was comforting to know that when he was initially buried, whoever it was, took care to make sure that he was laid to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite remaining family members never getting the chance to know Mitchell, Dennin said they all know of him. An old oval framed portrait of him hung in the home of Dennin\u2019s great grandmother until her death. 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