Operation Glory was an American effort to repatriate the remains of United Nations Command casualties from North Korea at the end of the Korean War. The Korean Armistice Agreement of July 1953 called for the repatriation of all casualties and prisoners of war, and through September and October 1954 the Graves Registration Service Command received the remains of approximately 4,000 casualties. Of the 1,868 American remains, 848 unidentified remains were buried as "unknowns" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.

Some of the remains came from the temporary military cemeteries in North Korea that had been abandoned as Chinese forces pushed US forces out of North Korea. Public ceremonies involving delivery of the returned remains included honor guards. Also exchanged were the remains of approximately 14,000 North Korean and Chinese casualties.

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  • Cannon, Florence (May–June 1952). . The Quartermaster Review. United States Quartermaster Museum & The Memorial Day Foundation.
  • Cook, James C. (March–April 1953). . The Quartermaster Review. Fort Lee, VA: Army Quartermaster Museum. Archived from on 2017-12-03.
  • Lee, Chungsun (15 Jun 2022). . International Journal of Military History and Historiography. -1 (aop). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV: 1–26. doi:. S2CID .
  • . Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. November 24, 2020.
  • Martz, John D. (May–June 1954). . Quartermaster Review. Fort Lee, VA: US Army Quartermaster Foundation. Archived from on 2013-11-02. A description of the post-recovery processing of casualties undertaken at Kokura, Japan, in which the remains were identified and prepared for repatriation.