Archambeault, Richard John
Army Corporal

Richard John Archambeault, age 20, from Northampton, Massachusetts, Hampshire county.

Parents: Adeline J. Archambeault

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On April 29, 2014, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Richard John Archambeault, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Archambeault entered the U.S. Army from Massachusetts and served with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Company L were occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea, north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the “Camel’s Head Bend.” That day, elements of the Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. SGT Archambeault did not survive this action, though no specific details surrounding his loss are known, and his body was not located or recovered at the time. Between 1991 and 1994, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of a number of U.S. service members; some of the remains correlated to SGT Archambeault’s loss area near Unsan, and U.S. analysts eventually identified SGT Archambeault from these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Daily Hampshire Gazette (2001)