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John Walton Collier
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Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
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Date of Death
September 19, 1950
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Corporal Collier was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On September 19, 1950, he volunteered to lead three comrades on an assault of a heavily fortified position near Chindong-ni, South Korea. He destroyed an enemy machine-gun nest killing four North Koreans. After he rejoined his squad, a grenade fell among them. Warning his comrades to take cover, he fell upon the grenade killing himself. |
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