Lowell Washington

Glen Leroy Pratt, age 20, from Snohomish County Lowell, Washington .

Parents: Pearl Prat

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Saturday, November 4, 1950
Death details: Members of the U.S. 34th Infantry Regiment were among the first U.S. ground troops to arrive in South Korea following the North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) invasion on June 25, 1950. The 34th, which had been on garrison duty in Japan, was undermanned and under-equipped and had little field experience. It’s mission was to delay the NKPA’s surge to the south as long as possible so that reinforcements could arrive. On July 6 the NKPA attacked the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 34th Infantry north of the town of Chonan, South Korea. The U.S. troops withdrew slowly back to Chonan, and established defensive lines there. Corporal Glen Leroy Pratt entered the U.S. Army from Washington and served with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces near Chonan, South Korea, on July 7, 1950, and was a part of the forced “Tiger March” to the Apex prisoner of war camps near the Yalu River. Repatriated American prisoners of war later reported that CPL Pratt was shot by a guard during the march from Manpo to Chunggang-jin, North Korea, on November 4, 1950. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Pratt 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, Daily Herald (1953)