TAUNTON, Mass. (WLNE) — The City of Taunton welcomed the remains of a Taunton-born Korean War prisoner of war on Wednesday. Community members and local officials lined the street, welcoming 24-year-old Private First Class Joseph Travers back home. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Trav ers was reported missing in action on April 22, 1951. In the late summer and fall of 1954, North Korea returned remains from their camps, which were not identified as Travers. His remains were buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Honolulu, Hawaii, until the DPAA sent the remains to a lab for analysis in 2019. DPAA scientists used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison, to identify Travers’s remains. On June 20, 2024 Travers’ remains were accounted for by the DPAA. Categories: News ...read more read less