Harold Steven Fancher from New York, Fulton county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, June 22, 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. Corporal Harold Steven Fancher, who joined the U.S. Army from New York, served with the Medical Company, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, in an area between Pyongtaek and Chochiwon, and forced to march north to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of exhaustion and pneumonia on June 22, 1951, at a prison camp between the villages of An-dong and Kaeyambol and was buried near the camp. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the cease fire. Today, Corporal Fancher is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
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