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Kenneth Leroy Skinner
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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
January 9, 1951
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Private First Class Skinner was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. On July 6, 1950, he volunteered to stay with the wounded until transportation arrived, but he was overrun by the North Koreans and taken prisoner. He was forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on January 9, 1951 from beatings and malnutrition. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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