Carman, Lyle Harvey
Army Private 1st class

Lyle Harvey Carman from Iowa, Cerro Cordo county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Friday, December 1, 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 Lyle Harvey Carman, who joined the U.S. Army from Iowa, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, during the withdrawal and forced to march north to the Apex camps near the Yalu River in North Korea. He died of exhaustion and pneumonia on an unspecified date in December at the prison camp in Hanjang-ni, and was buried at the edge of the village. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Corporal Carman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency