Richard G. Jewett

Korean War
Service #O-2003239
Unit23rd Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From New Jersey
Date of DeathSeptember 19 1952
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
6
Combat Infantryman Badge
Korean Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Purple Heart
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
United Nations Service Medal
Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Korean Presidential Unit Citation.
Notes
Second Lieutenant Jewett was a member of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on September 19, 1952. Initially listed as Missing in Action, his name is permanently engraved at the Honolulu Memorial
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.