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Charles Emerson Byers
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
D CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
December 27, 1950
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Private First Class Byers was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy 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 27, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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