KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WVLT) - A Tennessee soldier who died during the Korean War has been accounted for decades after his body made it back to U.S. soil, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The announcement came Wednesday. The agency said 18-year-old Army Cpl. George C. Hagie of Kingsport would be coming back to Tennessee after decades as an unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.

Hagie was declared killed in action on Nov. 28, 1950, the agency said, after a battle near the Jangjin Reservoir in North Korea. His body was turned over to the U.S. in 1954, and he was designated as Unknown X-15650 Operation Glory.

In October 2019, the agency proposed a plan to identify 652 Korean War unknowns, which prompted Hagie’s iden

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