Glenn Maynard Clark from Illinois, Montgomery county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 30, 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. Private First Class Glenn Maynard Clark, who joined the U.S. Army from Illinois, served with Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, near Chochiwon and was forced to march north to the Apex Camps near the Yalu River in North Korea. He died of exhaustion and pneumonia in late November at the prison camp near Chunggang-jin and was buried near the edge of the village. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Private First Class Clark is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency