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Richard Ray Lipes
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Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
A CO 19 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
December 23, 1950
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Corporal Lipes was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in Korea on July 16, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died in a prison camp at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on December 23, 1950 from malnutrition. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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