By Daniela Vestal, U.S. Army Human Resources Command

FORT KNOX, Ky. – The remains of U.S. Army Cpl. George F. Sepsey, 24, killed during World War II, will be interred June 13, in Saint Patrick Mount Hope Cemetery in Croswell, Michigan. Services and interment will be coordinated by Pomeroy Funeral Home.

In late 1942, Sepsey was assigned to Company M, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Infantry Division, and deployed in present day Papua New Guinea. He was reportedly killed in action on Nov. 26, 1942, during a grueling fight against Japanese forces along the Sanananda Track. His remains were not recovered after the war.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Sepsy on April 25, 2025.

For more information on DPAA’s efforts to locate and identify Sepsy, please visit: https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4175489/soldier-accounted-for-from-wwii-sepsey-g/

U.S. Army Human Resources Command’s Past Conflict Repatriations Branch plays a vital role in the process of identifying, locating and contacting subsequent generation family members of Soldiers missing or killed in action during WWII and the Korean War to positively identify previously undiscovered or unknown remains.

Media interested in covering and/or obtaining more information about the funeral and interment should contact Pomeroy Funeral Home, 810-679-9800.

Soldier Accounted For From WWII (Sepsey, G.)

Press Release, May 6, 2025

WASHINGTON  –  The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. George F. Sepsey, 24, killed during World War II, was accounted for on April 25, 2025.

In late 1942, Sepsey was assigned to Company M, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Infantry Division, and deployed in present day Papua New Guinea. He was reportedly killed in action on Nov. 26, 1942, during a grueling fight against Japanese forces along the Sanananda Track. His remains were not recovered after the war. 

This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Sepsey’s case will be published once the family receives their full briefing.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving their country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil.

DPAA Servicemember Profile

On April 25, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Cpl. Geroge F. Sepsey, missing from World War II.

Sepsey entered the U.S. Army from Michigan and served with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. He was lost during the Buna-Gona Campaign on Papua New Guinea and was last seen near the Soputa-Sanananda Track during a grueling battle against Japan defensive forces there on Nov. 26, 1942. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service, the military unit responsible for investigating and recovering missing American personnel in the Pacific Theater, began exhuming remains from approximately 11,000 graves in Finschhafen cemeteries in Papua New Guinea for shipment to the Central Identification Point at the Manila Mausoleum in the Philippines for identification. Sepsey was not among those identified. Remains that could not identified at the time were interred as Unknowns at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. In 2017, DPAA personnel exhumed one such Unknown, recovered from the Soputa-Sanananda area in March 1943, and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for scientific analysis. Based on the laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence, the remains were identified as those of Sepsey.

He is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.