Sergeant Garcia was a member of Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in North Korea on December 1, 1950 and died while a prisoner on February 28, 1951. 

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sergeant Cresenciano Garcia, Jr. were accounted for in 2023. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.