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Pfc Lewis E. Price enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 25 November 1942.

He was reported missing in action as of 6 November 1944 when his reconnaissance patrol failed to return from a mission. He was declared officialy dead one day and one year after he was reportec missing in action.

On 26 September 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Pfc Price was accounted for on 24 September 2018.

In November 1944, Price was a member of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, which moved into the Hürtgen Forest in Germany, to relieve U.S. forces who had been fighting for weeks. The fighting in and around the forest was frequently chaotic, and while details surrounding his loss are sparse, he was reported missing in action as of 6 November 1944 when his reconnaissance patrol failed to return from a mission.

After the war, the American Graves Registration Command extensively searched the Hürtgen Forest, to locate Price’s remains. Remains were found above ground in the woods near Zweifaller Weg in Germeter. Unable to make a correlation with any remains found in the area, he was declared non-recoverable.

After being interred in a temporary grave, his remains were disinterred on 3 November 1949 and given a final resting place at Ardennes on 18 April 1950.

In 2015, a historian from DPAA analyzed documentation of X-2736 Neuville, an unidentified set of remains recovered from the Hürtgen Forest in 1946. Army officials had been unable to identify the remains following the war and subsequently interred them as an unknown Soldier at Neuville, present-day Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.

Based upon the original recovery location and evidence from the personal effects associated with X-2736, the DPAA historian determined that there was a possible association between the remains and Price. In June 2016, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission disinterred X-2736 and accessioned the remains to the laboratory for identification

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

At the Walls of the Missing at Margraten, a rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

On 14 December 2018, he has been given his final resting place at the Highland Cemetery in Rogersville, Tennessee, next to his parents.