American War Heroes · 1950–1953
A war that never quite ended. This roll includes George A. Davis Jr., Charles J. Loring Jr., and John S. Walmsley Jr., still unaccounted for; Jesse L. Brown, killed beside the Chosin with remains not recovered; Thomas J. Hudner Jr., who landed beside him; Baldomero López at Inchon; and William E. Barber at Toktong Pass. Thousands more remain on the DPAA ledger. We will not invent names to fill a page.
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14 on the roll
1920–unaccounted for since February 10, 1952 · Lieutenant Colonel (promoted while missing)
George Andrew Davis Jr. was a Dublin, Texas, fighter pilot who had already made ace in the Southwest Pacific when the Air Force sent him to Korea. He flew the F-86 from Kimpo with the 334th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. …
1926–1950 · Ensign
Jesse LeRoy Brown left Hattiesburg for a Navy that had not planned on a Black aviator and then had one anyway. He completed flight training in 1948 and went to sea with Fighter Squadron 32. In the winter of 1950 he flew …
1925–1950 · First Lieutenant
Baldomero López was a Tampa Marine who went over the seawall at Inchon on September 15, 1950, leading a rifle platoon of Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. Contemporary photographs show him climbing with a pistol and…
1919–2002 · Captain (later Colonel)
William Earl Barber held a frozen hill when the Chosin campaign was coming apart. In late November 1950, as a captain of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, he was ordered to hold Toktong Pass — Fox Hill — so the divi…
1918–unaccounted for since November 22, 1952 · Major
Charles Joseph Loring Jr. was a Portland, Maine, fighter pilot who had already been shot down in Europe and come home from a German camp when the Air Force sent him to Korea. In 1952 he flew the F-80 with the 80th Fighte…
1920–unaccounted for since September 14, 1951 · Captain
John Springer Walmsley Jr. left Baltimore for the Army Air Forces and then the Air Force. He spent the 1940s as an instructor and occupation bomber pilot. In June 1951 he went to Korea with the 8th Bombardment Squadron a…
1929–unaccounted for since September 5, 1952 · Private First Class
Fernando Luis Garcia left Utuado, Puerto Rico, for the Marine Corps and a rifle company in Korea. By September 1952 he was a private first class in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, holding ground on the outpost lin…
1932–unaccounted for since June 12, 1952 · Private First Class
Henry Svehla grew up in Belleville after a Newark birth and went to Korea as a private first class with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Infantry, 7th Infantry Division. On June 12, 1952, near Pyongony — the fight for Hill…
1933–unaccounted for since April 25, 1951 · Corporal (posthumous)
Charles Leon Gilliland was still a teenager when he left the Ozarks for the Army. Born near Mountain Home, Arkansas, in 1933, he was a private first class in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division,…
1930–unaccounted for since November 25, 1950 · Corporal
Joe Rodriguez Baldonado was the son of Mexican migrant workers in Colorado and went into the Army as a light-weapons infantryman and paratrooper. By November 1950 he was a corporal machine gunner in Company B, 1st Battal…
1919–unaccounted for since September 1, 1950 · Captain (posthumous)
Frederick Funston Henry left Vian, Oklahoma, for the Army a week before his twenty-first birthday and already had Pacific war time behind him when Korea opened. By the last night of August 1950 he was a first lieutenant …
1921–unaccounted for since November 26, 1950 · First Lieutenant
Frank Nicias Mitchell enlisted in the Marine Corps from Texas in 1939, served through the Pacific war, and was a first lieutenant leading a rifle platoon in Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, when the Chosin Reservoi…
1924–2017 · Lieutenant (junior grade) (later Captain, U.S. Navy)
Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr., a Fall River, Massachusetts, Naval Academy graduate, flew F4U Corsairs from USS Leyte with Fighter Squadron 32 in the first winter of the Korean War. On December 4, 1950, Ensign Jesse L. Brown —…
1935–unaccounted for since June 4, 1953 · Private First Class
Charles Heyward Barker entered the Army from South Carolina and was still a private first class in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 17th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division, when the Korean War's last months were being fought along…