Tommy Stagg

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Thomas C. Stagg (born c. 1929; died November 29, 1950 near Hajoyang-ni, North Korea) was an Army paratrooper who was killed in the Korean War.

Stagg was one of three children born to William Stagg of Ensley. He served as a paratrooper with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry. He was killed along with ten other soldiers in an ambush during a reconnaissance patrol. His body was not recovered during the war.

In December 2016 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency notified Stagg's relatives that his remains, which had been returned to the United States in the early 1990s, had been identified based on matching DNA samples taken from a niece and nephew.

Those remains were interred at Elmwood Cemetery on Memorial Day, March 29, 2017.

References

  • Dunigan, Jonece Starr (May 25, 2017) "'He's coming home': Body of Korean War soldier missing 66 years returning to Birmingham." The Birmingham News