Bunting, Worth Lamar
Army Corporal

Worth Lamar Bunting from North Carolina.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Monday, January 1, 1951
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. Sergeant Worth Lamar Bunting, who joined the U.S. Army from North Carolina, served with L Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 11, near Chochiwon and was forced to march north to the Apex camps near the Yalu River in North Korea. He died of malnutrition and pneumonia on an unspecified date in January, 1951, at the prison camp in Hanjang-ni and was buried near the camp. After the war, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody. Today, Sergeant Bunting is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency