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William Green Sumner
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
D CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
December 12, 1950
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Sergeant Sumner was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 10, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on December 12, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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