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Rudy Velasco Mesa
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Rank
Private, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 29 REGT CMBT TEAM
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Date of Death
October 20, 1950
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Private Mesa was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Hadong, South Korea on July 27, 1950. He was reportedly murdered in a tunnel near Sunch'on, North Korea on October 20, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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