Nordin, David Thomas Jr.
Army Private 1st class

David Thomas Jr. Nordin, age 23, from Los Angeles County Los Angeles, California .

Parents: David T. Nordin

Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment

Date of death: Tuesday, November 28, 1950
Death details: On July 13, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal David Thomas Nordin Jr., missing from the Korean War. CPL Nordin joined the U.S. Army from California and was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In late November, 1950, his unit was positioned near Unsan, North Korea, when they came under attack from Chinese Communist Forces (CCF). U.S. troops at Unsan were forced to fall back to Yongbyon, North Korea, and CPL Nordin was captured by the CCF at some point during the fighting withdrawal. He was taken to a prisoner of war camp in the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley of North Korea, where he died of pneumonia in January 1951. In April 2005, a joint U.S. and North Korean investigative team recovered remains from a site near the area where the Pukchin-Tarigol camps had been located. Advances in forensic techniques eventually allowed for CPL Nordin to be identified from among these remains. Corporal Nordin is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.

Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Fresno Bee (1953)