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Pfc Milo O. Whipple graduated from Jackson High School in Ohio in 1938. He was employed at the Kemper Furniture factory in Union City.

He enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 14 October 1942 and received his basic training at Camp Atterbury, Indana and was sent overseas in April 1944.

Pfc Whipple was wounded in action in the hand on 6 July 1944 and was confined for a time in a hospital in England. Later he received wounds in his left foot. He returned to active duty in November 1944.

He was declared officially dead one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on 19 September 2025 that Pfc Milo O. Whipple has been accounted for.

He was reported missing in action on 3 December 1944, during intense combat which took place in the eastern edge of the forest, between Grosshau and Gey, Germany. Beginning in 1946, search teams from the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater, conducted several investigations and recoveries around Grosshau, but none of the remains found during those efforts could be identified as Whipple. In May 1946, an AGRC investigation team had recovered two sets of remains south of Gey, Germany, and transferred them to the United States Military Cemetery Neuville, now the Ardennes American Cemetery, in Belgium for processing. At the time, the remains could not be successfully identified and were interred at Ardennes American Cemetery as Unknowns.

In July 2022, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed these two Unknowns and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis. There, it was discovered that the two sets contained commingled remains from one individual, which the laboratory analysis and total circumstantial evidence identified as Whipple.

Funeral arrangements are pending (information added January 2026).