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Chester Sims Hicks
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Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ BTRY 63 FA BN 24 DIV
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Date of Death
December 23, 1950
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Corporal Hicks was a member of Headquarters Battery, 63rd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Kum River, South Korea on July 14, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on December 23, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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