Scarbrough, Darrell Wesley
Army Private 1st class

Darrell Wesley Scarbrough, age 20, from Fayetteville, West Virginia, Fayette county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On August 9, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Darrell Wesley Scarbrough, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Scarbrough entered the U.S. Army from West Virginia and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Company D were occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea, north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the “Camel’s Head Bend.” That day, elements of the Chinese Communist Forces struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. CPL Scarbrough did not survive this combat, though the details surrounding his loss are not recorded and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a joint U.S./North Korean investigative team interviewed a farmer living in the vicinity of Unsan who told the team that while doing land reclamation work, he uncovered human remains he believed were those of U.S. soldiers. The team excavated the burial site and uncovered human remains, and U.S. analysts identified CPL Scarbrough from these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Hinton Daily News (1950)