Gantt, Joseph Enoch
Army Sergeant 1st class
Joseph Enoch Gantt from Los Angeles County Los Angeles, California .
Spouse: Clara Gantt
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On November 26, 2013, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Joseph Enoch Gantt, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant First Class Gantt, who entered the U.S. Army from California, served with Battery C, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On December 1, 1950, he was captured by Chinese Communist Forces as his unit was attempting to withdraw from defensive positions near Kunu-ri, North Korea. He was taken to POW Camp 5 in Pyokdong, North Korea, where he died of malnutrition in the spring of 1951. In 1993, the North Korean government repatriated remains of U.S. service members lost during the Korean War, and SFC Gantt was eventually identified from among these remains. Sergeant First Class Gantt 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: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Stockton Evening and Sunday Record (1953)