Brown, Joseph Clarence
Army Corporal

Joseph Clarence Brown from Ohio, Franklin county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Wednesday, August 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 Joseph Clarence Brown joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of M Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces during the fighting around Chochiwon on July 12. Sergeant Brown was part of a group marched to the “Apex Camps” in northern North Korea near the Yalu River. He died of malnutrition at one of these camps in August 1951. Sergeant Brown was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the conflict’s ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant Brown is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency