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Charles Virgil Bailey
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
L CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
January 22, 1951
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Sergeant Bailey was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 11, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died at prisoner of war camp, Chunggang-jin, North Korea on January 22, 1951 of malnutrition and dysentery. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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