The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Donwin Ross Peterson
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
C CO 19 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
August 5, 1951
Corporal Peterson 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 16, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at An-Dong, North Korea on August 5, 1951 of pneumonia and malnutrition. His remains were not recovered.