Whitaker, Clyde Eudean
Army Sergeant
Clyde Eudean Whitaker, age 23, from Alger, Ohio, Hardin county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On November 27, 1950, B Company of the U.S. Army’s 35th Infantry Regiment, an element of Task Force Dolvin/Wilson, was holding a hastily erected defensive position near the village of Tong-dong, North Korea, when Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked the company’s perimeter from two sides. After heavy fighting, the Chinese successfully infiltrated the American positions, forcing a withdrawal under heavy mortar and artillery fire. The U.S. troops pulled back to another position a mile farther south. Sergeant First Class Clyde Eudean Whitaker entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and served with B Company of the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was killed in action near Unsan on November 27 during the withdrawal from Tong-dong. His body was not recovered at the time of his loss, and he was not identified among the remains returned to the U.S. following the ceasefire. Today, Sergeant First Class Whitaker is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency