Shepard, Ollie Edward
Army Corporal

Ollie Edward Shepard, age 22, from Oklahoma, Choctaw county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, December 3, 1950
Death details: On August 7, 2017, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Ollie Edward Shepard, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Shepard joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and was a member of I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. In late November of 1950, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launched a large-scale offensive against U.S. troops in the Chosin Reservoir of North Korea, forcing them to withdraw south. SGT Shepard’s unit was positioned on the eastern side of the reservoir at the outset of the attack, and he was reported missing in action once the withdrawal was complete. He was never reported to be a prisoner of war, and his remains were not returned immediately following the war. In September 2004, a joint U.S./North Korean investigative team recovered remains from a site on the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir. Some of the recovered remains were eventually identified as those of SGT Shepard. Sergeant Shepard is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency