DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) – Family now knows the U.S. military has identified a soldier from World War II from Dubuque. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday they identified U.S. Army Pfc. Raymond U. Schlamp, who was 28 and from Dubuque. He was accounted for on March 21, 2022.

DPAA says Schlamp was part of the Company G, 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. They say he was killed as his Company was given the order to withdraw from the area known as the “Horseshoe Woods” near Dornot, France. They had been trying to secure the area at the time. In 1945, the War Department issued a “Finding of Death” because people could not find his remains. In 1947, a search could not find remains, and in 1951, he was declared “non-recoverable.”

DPAA historians found the remains from an unknown person could be associated with Schlamp or other soldiers. They were buried at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Limey, France. The remains were disinterred in June 2021. With the use of anthropological and dental analysis, along with DNA analysis, scientists were able to identify Schlamp.

Currently Schlamp’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinoze, France. A rosette marker will now be placed next to his name to indicate he’s been accounted for. A date and time have yet to be determined for his burial.