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Lee H. Phillips
February 3, 1930 – unaccounted for since November 27, 1950
Born Stockbridge, Georgia
Loss location: Hill 1282 near Yudam-ni, Chosin Reservoir, North Korea (loss location)
Corporal, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division; Medal of Honor action near Sudong November 4, 1950; killed defending high ground at Yudam-ni / Hill 1282, Chosin Reservoir, November 27, 1950
Missing in action — DPAA lists Cpl. Lee Hugh Phillips as Unaccounted For (Deferred), profile a0Jt0000001yvBDEAY (verified 2026-09-22). Killed in action November 27, 1950 defending high ground around Yudam-ni (Hill 1282) during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir; received a field burial whose location was not recovered after the war. Remains not returned to U.S. custody. Posthumous Medal of Honor for earlier action near Sudong on November 4, 1950 — that citation is not a recovery of remains. Memorialized on the Courts of the Missing, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific; a Marietta National Cemetery cenotaph is remembrance, not a recovered grave.
Lee Hugh Phillips was born in Stockbridge, Georgia, in 1930 and entered the Marine Corps from that state. By the autumn of 1950 he was a corporal in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. On November 4, near Sudong, he led a platoon up a hill under fire, cleared bunkers, and held the ground — the action that later brought a posthumous Medal of Honor.
Three weeks later the Chinese offensive hit the Chosin Reservoir. On November 27, his unit was defending the high ground around Yudam-ni. He fell on Hill 1282 and was given a field burial. After the war, those remains were not among the ones returned to American custody. The burial site was never recovered.
DPAA profile a0Jt0000001yvBDEAY still reads Unaccounted For, analytical category Deferred. He is on the Courts of the Missing in Honolulu and on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall. A cenotaph at Marietta National Cemetery is not a grave from Hill 1282. The Medal of Honor citation for Sudong does not close the Chosin file.
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- NN-HERO-1950-016
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