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Pvt James I. Trick enlisted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 15 December 1943 and was sent overseas on 9 August 1944.

He was killed by enemy shrapnel while bringing supplies to his unit.

On 11 July 2019, the DPAA anounced that Pvt James Trick was accounted for on 8 July 2019.

After the war, the American Graves Registration Command extensively searched the Hürtgen Forest for him. No remains found in the area were identified as Trick’s, and the Army declared him non-recoverable.

On 22 July 1947, a set of remains, designated X-6207 Neuville, was recovered from the Hürtgen Forest, where Trick’s company was engaged in battle. The remains were transferred to the Central Identification Point at Neuville, Belgium. Despite exhaustive efforts, the remains could not be identified and were subsequently interred at the United States Military Cemetery Neuville-en-Condroz (present-day Ardennes American Cemetery) in September 1949.

Based upon the original recovery location of X-6207, a DPAA historian determined that there was a likely association between the remains and Trick. In June 2018, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission disinterred X-6207 and accessioned the remains to the DPAA laboratory for identification.

To identify Trick’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

A rosette was placed next to his name on the Walls of the Missing to indicate he has been accounted for.

He was given his final resting place at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Hughesville, Pennsylvania.