From the March 18, 2023, AP News.
The remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Gregory V. Knoll, 22, of Hill City, Kansas, were idenntified in january by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
He was assigned to Company M, 3rd Battalion, 112th Infantry regiment, 28th Infantry Division during the war. In November 1944, his battalion was overrun by German forces as they tried to capture Schmidt, Germany, in Hurtgen Forest.
Surviviors of the attack withdrew to Kommerscheidt, where Knoll was reported killed in action on November 7, 1944.
The American Graves Registration Command conducted several investigations in the Hurtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to find his remains.
His remains had been found, but unidentified and buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium in 1949. They were disinterred in 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, where scientists used DNA and other analysis to identify his remains.
He will be buried on July 7 in Garden City.
I am so glad that the United States makes this effort to find our missing military people.
--GreGen
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