The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Virgil E. Underhill
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
B BTRY 57 FA BN 7 DIV
Date of Death
August 5, 1951
Corporal Underhill was a member of Battery B, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Hagaru, North Korea on December 6, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at An-Dong, North Korea on August 5, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.