Carroll county Missouri

Jackie George Berrier from Missouri, Carroll county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Friday, January 5, 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. Private First Class Jackie George Berrier, who joined the U.S. Army from Missouri, served with L Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces during this action and was forced to march to a prison camp at Hanju-ni on the Yalu River. He died at the camp of exhaustion and pneumonia on January 5, 1951, and was buried near Hanju-ni; however his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Private First Class Berrier is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency