Lost in 1950, Korean War Soldier to be Laid to Rest in Pennsylvania
Guinther entered the service from Pennsylvania and served in Company C, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
On Aug. 5, 1950, his regiment landed at Pusan, South Korea, and his battalion was dispatched to the front lines to reinforce elements defending Pusan Harbor. They established positions on high ground above the Naktong River. At dusk on Aug. 31, the North Korean People's Army launched an offensive across the river.
By the early morning of Sept. 1, Guinther's company was completely overrun. He was reported missing in action following the attack and was never reported as a prisoner of war.
In December 1951, a team from the 8th Army Grave Registration Services recovered two commingled sets of remains from a shallow grave near the village of Masuwon, South Korea, near his company's position.
During processing in 1952, the remains were segregated. One set was identified as another Soldier from the same company, but the second set, designated X-5108 Tanggok, could not be identified.
In 1956, these remains were interred as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In June 2021, the DPAA disinterred X-5108 and transferred the remains to the laboratory for analysis. There, scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify Guinther.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Guinther on June 26, 2025.
For more information on DPAA’s efforts to locate and identify Guinther, please visit: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004ldkEAA
U.S. Army Human Resources Command’s Past Conflict Repatriations Branch plays a vital role in the process of identifying, locating and contacting subsequent generation family members of Soldiers missing or killed in action during WWII and the Korean War to positively identify previously undiscovered or unknown remains.
Media interested in covering and/or obtaining more information about the funeral and interment should contact Richard W. Fritz Funeral Home, 570-875-4171.
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