Mulock, Arthur Franklin
Army 1st Lieutenant

Arthur Franklin Mulock from Middlesex County Massachusetts.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, July 20, 1950
Death details: On July 20, 1950, the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was holding a defensive line in South Korea overlooking the Taejon Airport, northeast of the city. When enemy tanks broke through the line near the airport, U.S. troops were ordered to fall back through Taejon. The 3rd Battalion was ordered to lead the convoy out of Taejon, but ran into a series of collapsed structures and roadblocks that broke up the column. U.S. forces were unable to break through these roadblocks, and to avoid capture soldiers moved off-road and began filtering through the countryside in small groups. First Lieutenant Arthur Franklin Mulock entered the U.S. Army from Massachusetts and served in L Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured on July 20 during the withdrawal from Taejon. He was eventually marched toward the Apex prisoner of war camps along the south bank of the Yalu River in North Korea and reportedly died while in enemy captivity; however, the details of the cause and location of his death and his burial site are unknown. First Lieutenant Mulock’s remains were not recovered or identified among those returned to U.S. custody following the war, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, First Lieutenant Mulock 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