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Bill Swanson Sumpter
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
C CO 19 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
November 17, 1950
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Sergeant Sumpter was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy at the Rum River in South Korea on July 16, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died in his sleep at Apex Prisoner of War Camp in North Korea on November 17, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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