Warren, Everett
Army Private 1st class
Everett Warren from Georgia, Terrell county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, July 16, 1950
Death details: On the evening of July 15, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 19th Infantry Regiment held defensive positions along the south bank of the Kum River. As dusk approached, North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) tanks appeared on the opposite shore and began firing on the U.S. positions. Although U.S. troops repulsed the attacks that evening, the next morning the NKPA crossed the river and launched a major attack against the 19th Regiment. As the regiment began withdrawing south to Taejon, the North Koreans pushed deep into their defensive lines and set up a roadblock en route to Taejon. When retreating American convoys could not break through the roadblock, soldiers were forced to leave the road and attempt to make their way in small groups across the countryside. Of the 900 soldiers in the 19th Infantry when the Battle of Kum River started, only 434 made it to friendly lines. Corporal Everett Warren entered the U.S. Army from Georgia and served with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured on the morning of July 16, 1950, during the Battle of Kum River. Reportedly, CPL Warren was among the prisoners forced to take part in the infamous “Tiger March” from Manpo to the so-called Apex Camps. However, on October 31, CPL Warren died of exhaustion and illness at a temporary camp known as the “Cornfield Site” along the march route just outside Manpo. Circumstances surrounding his burial are unknown, and he has not been identified among the remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Corporal Warren is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency