Sisk, Homer Lee Jr.
Army Private 1st class

Homer Lee Jr. Sisk, age 20, from California, Tulare county.

Parents: Ward of Justin C. Crowell

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On August 15, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Homer Lee Sisk Jr., missing from the Korean War. Corporal Sisk entered the U.S. Army from California and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Company D 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 struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. CPL Sisk did not survive this combat, though the details surrounding his loss are not recorded and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team interviewed a farmer living near Unsan, who led the team to a burial site where they uncovered human remains; U.S. analysts used forensic technology to identify CPL Sisk from these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, San Bernardino County Sun (1950)