Clarence B. Frese, age 25, from Dixon, California, Solano county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, October 4, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Dixon
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Russell Floyd Behringer from Solano County California.
Spouse: Liliana Behringer
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. Master Sergeant Russell Floyd Behringer entered the U.S. Army from California and served in B Company of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, during the 2nd Infantry Division’s withdrawal to Sunch’on. Master Sergeant Behringer was among a group of prisoners of war (POWs) marched among various villages until early January 1951, when they were finally interned at Camp 5 along the banks of the Yalu River. By the time he reached Camp 5, MSG Behringer was extremely ill and died within a few weeks of pneumonia. The exact date was not recorded but occurred in March or April 1951, and other POWs buried MSG Behringer near the camp. After the war, American personnel could not reach the camp to disinter any remains and MSG Behringer was not identified among those remains returned to the U.S. after the armistice. Today, Master Sergeant Behringer 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, Stockton Evening and Sunday Reocrd (1953)