Griffiths, Jack David
Army Captain
Jack David Griffiths from Comanche County Lawton, Oklahoma .
Spouse: Marcella C. Griffiths
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On April 28, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Major Jack David Griffiths, missing from the Korean War. Major Griffiths joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and was a member of the Headquarters Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces during an engagement near Somin-dong, North Korea. MAJ Griffiths was taken to Prisoner of War Camp 5 in Pyoktong, North Korea, where he died of illness in August 1951. In1954, his remains were returned to U.S. custody; however, they could not be identified at the time and were buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Advances in forensic techniques eventually prompted the re-examination and identification of MAJ Griffiths’s remains. Major Griffiths is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Lawton Constitution (1950)