On September 30, 2013, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Cristobal Romo, missing from the Korean War. 

Corporal Romo, who entered the U.S. Army from California, served with L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, and was a part of the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), codenamed Task Force Faith, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. 

On or before December 12, 1950, he was killed in action as the 31st RCT attempted to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area. He was not identified among remains returned to the U.S. immediately after the war. 

In September 2004, a joint U.S./North Korean investigative team excavated a burial site south of the Chosin Reservoir and recovered human remains. 

Advances in forensic techniques eventually allowed some of these remains to be identified as those of CPL Romo.

Corporal Romo is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.

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