Corporal Hauterman was a medic with the Medical Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was listed as Missing in Action while tending his wounded comrades in North Korea on December 2, 1950. He was presumed dead on December 31, 1953. His remains were not recovered. On September 15, 1954, a set of remains reportedly recovered from the East Chosin Reservoir were sent to the Central Identification Laboratory in Kokura, Japan and attempted to make an identification. The remains, identified as X-15904, were declared unidentifiable in 1955, and were transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. On June 13, 2016, the remains identified as "Unknown X-15904" were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis. Laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence were used in the identification of his remains that occurred in late 2016. His name remains permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.