The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Jack Clinton Samms
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
G CO 19 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
November 13, 1950
Corporal Samms was a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fight the enemy in South Korea on July 20, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and was killed by a guard at Chunggang-jin, North Korea on November 13, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.