Milwaukee County Wisconsin

Frank Martin Malczewski, age 32, from Milwaukee County South Milwaukee, Wisconsin .

Parents: Pelagia Malczewski

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Corporal Frank Martin Malczewski, who joined the U.S. Army from Wisconsin, served with the Headquarters, Headquarters and Signal Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from Kunu-ri to Sunchon. He was marched north with a large group of prisoners of war (POWs) and reached Camp 5 at Pyoktong, North Korea in January 1951. He died on an unspecified date a few weeks after arriving at Camp 5 and was buried in the camp cemetery by his fellow prisoners. His remains have not been recovered. Corporal Malczewski is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1954)