Vici Oklahoma

Murl R. Evans from Dewey County Vici, Oklahoma .

Parents: Ruby Ipson

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Friday, August 11, 1950
Death details: On August 10, 1950, members of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment combined with Battery C of the 15th Field Artillery Battalion as Task Force Bradley. The task force was directed to defend the city of P’ohang-dong, and Yonil Airfield, South Korea, from an impending attack by North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) forces. Late that day, Task Force Bradley moved along the main road toward P’ohang-dong and Yonil. Much of the task force reached Yonil shortly before midnight; however, during the early hours of August 11, NKPA fighters ambushed one company and four vehicles from Battery C were ambushed by NKPA fighters, preventing the ambushed men from reaching their destination.
Master Sergeant Murl Roy Evans, who joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma, served with Battery C of the 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action on August 11, 1950, near P’ohang-dong after his unit, attached to Task Force Bradley, was ambushed near Angang-ni but continued to fight through to P’ohang-dong. No one saw him fall, and he was not reported to be a prisoner of war. Searches conducted by American Graves Registration Service personnel during 1952 and 1953 failed to recover his body and subsequent searches have been similarly unsuccessful. Today, Master Sergeant Evans 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, Woodward County Journal (1950)