Tag: Haywood County North Carolina

Bobby Miller from North Carolina, Haywood county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Wednesday, April 25, 1951
Death details: On April 25, 1951, elements of the 24th Infantry Division, including the 21st Infantry Regiment and the 5th Regimental Combat Team, which was attached to the division at the time, were dug into positions north of Seoul, South Korea, where massive Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) had regrouped after their previous attempts to penetrate the valley areas east of Seoul. The CCF launched a renewed offensive against these positions, and despite fierce resistance, could not be stopped. Full enemy divisions were committed in succession, passing around or through their own lines to engage severely outnumbered friendly forces. For several miles, a withdrawal by stages unfolded. Artillery and tanks covered movement after movement, using slight rises in terrain to their full defensive value. The U.S. units suffered heavy casualties and had many men captured during these successive rear guard actions. Private First Class Bobby Miller, who joined the U.S. Army from North Carolina, was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. He was captured during the fighting near Seoul on April 25 and was forced to march north, eventually arriving at Camp 1, a holding camp on the bank of the Yalu River. In September 1951, PFC Miller died of illness and injuries, and was buried near the camp hospital. His remains have not been recovered or identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Private First Class Miller is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency