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Richard Allen Akers
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Rank
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Unit
E CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
February 24, 1951
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First Lieutenant Akers was a member of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on February 9, 1951 and died while a prisoner on February 24, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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