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Harold Walter Gustafson
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
A CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
December 21, 1950
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Private First Class Gustafson was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy on July 6, 1950. It was later disclosed he had been taken Prisoner of War, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea of malnutrition on December 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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