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Wilbert Cecil Beecher
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
L CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
January 22, 1951
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Private First Class Beecher was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Taejon, South Korea on July 20, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on January 22, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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