WASHINGTON (CBS19 NEWS) -- A Virginia man who was killed during the Korean War is coming home.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that U.S. Army Private First Class Harold D. Wilder of Pennington Gap was accounted for in February 2023.

According to a release, the 19-year-old was a member of L Company, Third Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division in the winter of 1950.

Wilder was reported as missing in action on July 11, after his unit was involved in defensive actions while fighting enemy forces north of Chochiwon.

Unofficially, enemy broadcasts had said Wilder was killed in action during fighting 20 miles north of Taejon, South Korea, but his remains were never recovered during or after the war.

In 1954, North Korea turned over remains to the United States as part of Operation Glory, including a set of remains identified as Unknown X-5139 Operation Glory.

The sets of remains had reportedly been recovered from prison of war camps, United Nations cemeteries and isolated burial sites.

On Jan. 16, 1956, Wilder was declared non-recoverable.

The remains were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, also known as the Punchbowl.

Then in 2019, X-5139 was disinterred and DPAA says scientists were able to positively associate the remains to Wilder.

The release says scientists used chest radiograph comparison, dental and anthropological analysis as well as mitochondrial DNA.

A rosette will be placed next to Wilder's name on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, signifying that he has been accounted for.

Wilder will be buried later this month in Pennington Gap.