Charles Vincent Gibson from Kansas, Wyandotte county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, November 14, 1950
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Corporal Charles Vincent Gibson, who joined the U.S. Army from Kansas, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12 and forced to march north to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of exhaustion and pneumonia at Chunggang-jin on November 14 and was buried at the edge of the village. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today Corporal Gibson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency