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Ralph Leonard Parks
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
C CO 19 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
March 15, 1951
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Sergeant Parks was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 20, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on March 15, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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