Cleveland, Stanley Kent
Army Private 1st class

Stanley Kent Cleveland, age 22, from Portland, Oregon, Washington County.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Wednesday, November 15, 1950
Death details:  In November 1950, elements of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry Division were participating in the advance northwards up the Chongchon River, attempting to consolidate recent gains. At this point, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) had entered the war but not yet shown great numbers. Units of the 2nd Infantry Division took part in a series of small actions along the banks of the Chongchon, clearing hilly areas of North Korean, and possibly some CCF, troops. Some U.S. casualties were sustained during these actions. On November 25, the massive southward counter-offensive by CCF troops pouring south pushed U.S. units out of the area and precluded attempts to recover the remains of some fallen soldiers.

Private First Class Stanley K. Cleveland, who entered the U.S. Army from Oregon, was serving with A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division at the time of the CCF incursion into Korea. He went missing in action on November 15 as his unit took part in clearing enemy forces from hills along the Chongchon’s south bank. Attempts to recover him were prevented by CCF troops overrunning the area a short time later, and the territory was never returned to U.S. control. He was not associated with any of the remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Private First Class Cleveland is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency