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Joseph Albert McElroy
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
C CO 27 INF 25 DIV
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Date of Death
December 13, 1950
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Sergeant McElroy was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th 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 Hanjang-ni, North Korea on December 13, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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