Mayor Gilich seeks remains of Korean War veteran

Mayor FoFo Gilich is trying to determine whether or not the remains of a Biloxi Air Force lieutenant were among the 55 boxes of remains that North Korea returned to the U.S.

First Lt. Robert Gaude Jr. was reportedly killed in action on July 10^th, 1953 while he was flying a combat mission over North Korea. He was 22 at the time.

Gilich is writing the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at Joint Base Pearl Harbor to let leaders know that ‘while there are no surviving Gaude members in our city, the Gaude family has a burial plot reserved for First Lt. Gaude in the case that his remains should ever be identified or returned.”

The Defense Department has acknowledged that as many as 7,700 U.S. servicemen including 37 Mississippians remain missing from the Korean War.

North Korea has turned over 55 boxes of remains, but defense department leaders say the identification process could take years in some cases.