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Philip Albert Botsford
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Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
C CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
October 29, 1950
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Corporal Botsford was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 20, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at the"Cornfield" south of Manpo, North Korea on October 29, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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