Sgt. Hall was a member of Headquarters Battery, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Kunu-ri, North Korea on December 1, 1950 and died while a prisoner on January 26, 1951. His remains were not recovered at the time. Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. John W. Hall were accounted for in 2018. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.