Milton Thearlo Bullis from Wayne County Michigan.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On June 29, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Milton Thearlo Bullis, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Bullis joined the U.S. Army from Michigan and was a member of the Medical Company attached to the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. In late November 1950, the 9th Infantry Regiment engaged Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) in a fighting withdrawal south from Sinhung-dong, North Korea, to Kunu-ri, and then to Sunch’on. U.S. troops had to fight through CCF roadblocks on the route to Sunch’on, and CPL Bullis was captured by enemy forces at some point during the withdrawal. He died of illness at the Pukchin-Tarigol prisoner of war camp complex in March 1951. In April 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered remains from a site near the area where the Pukchin-Tarigol camps had been. Advances in forensic techniques eventually allowed for some of these remains to be identified at those of CPL Bullis. Corporal Bullis is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency