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Leonard Jefferson Smith
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ CO 7 MED BN 7 DIV
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Date of Death
February 3, 1951
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Sergeant Smith was a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Medical Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while tending his wounded comrades in North Korea on November 24, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on February 3, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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