Joseph Guidry from Kingston, New York, Ulster county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, September 1, 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. Sergeant Joseph Guidry, who joined the U.S. Army from Louisiana, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, near Chochiwon, and was forced to march north to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of exposure, exhaustion and pneumonia on an unspecified date between June and September, 1951, and was buried by his companions near the prison camp at An-dong, North Korea. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today, Sergeant Guidry is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
