Clark, Gene Franklin
Army Corporal

Gene Franklin Clark, age 21, from Albany, Indiana, Delaware county.

Parents: Fred A. Clark

Service era: Korea
Schools: DeSoto High (1947), Ball State College

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On March 11, 2008, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Gene Franklin Clark, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Clark entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and served in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was killed in action on November 2, 1950, as his unit’s position along a bend in the Nammyon River known as “Camel’s Head Bend” was overrun by Chinese Communist Forces during the Battle of Unsan. He was buried near the area of his loss, but his remains were not returned to the U.S. immediately following the war. In 1993, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of several U.S. service members recovered from near Unsan, and in 2008, analysts were able to successfully identify SGT Clark from among these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Muncie Evening Press