Sgt. 1st Class Beed was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on February 12, 1951 and died while a prisoner on October 31, 1951. His remains were not recovered at the time. Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Milton M. Beed were accounted for in 2017. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.