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Casualty Info
Home Town Warren
Last Address POW Camp 5, Pyoktong, North Korea
Casualty Date Apr 30, 1951
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity
Reason Illness, Disease
Location Korea, North
Conflict Korean War/CCF Intervention (1950-51)
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Korean War/UN Defensive (1950)/ Pusan Perimeter Breakout
From Month/Year
September / 1950
To Month/Year
September / 1950
Description Meanwhile, 5th Marines came ashore at Inchon. The last North Korean troops in South Korea still fighting were defeated when Walton H. Walker's 8th Army broke out of the Pusan Perimeter, joining the Army's X Corps in a coordinated attack on NKPA forces. Of the 70,000 NKPA troops around Pusan, in the aftermath of the Pusan Perimeter battle, North Korean casualties from September 1 to September 15 could range from roughly 36,000 to 41,000 killed and captured, with an unknown total number of wounded.[85] However, because UN forces had concentrated on taking Seoul rather than cutting off the NKPA's withdrawal north, the remaining 30,000 North Korean soldiers escaped to the north, where they were soon reconstituted as a cadre for the formation of new NKPA divisions hastily re-equipped by the Soviet Union. The allied assault continued north to the Yalu River until the intervention of the People's Republic of China in the war in November 1950.
