Based on documents in other sections,
it appears that 1st Lt Joe Stanley McSpadden's identity
may have been known by January 1948.

These details are not in his IDPF.

The process in the below documents begins with
Recommendation For Identification ( 11 February 1949 ) and
concludes with approval by the Department of the Army ( 6 April 1949 ).

The two pages of the Identification Checklist (24 March 1949 ) :

Summarize the loss of A- Square 56,

Recovery at Sanadayma Military Cemetery,

and Recommendations for Identification.