The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Charles J. Frechette
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ CO 3 BN 21 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
October 22, 1950
Corporal Frechette was a member of the Battalion Radio Section, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chonan, South Korea on July 11, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Manpo, North Korea on October 22, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.