Sergeant First Class Maddox was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a member of Company M, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. On December 2, 1950, as his unit pushed south towards Hagaru-ri, North Korea, he was taken Prisoner of War, marched to Reksil Li and died on December 20, 1950 of exhaustion and pneumonia. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.