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Basil Varney
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Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
September 21, 1950
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Corporal Varney was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 7, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Manpo, North Korea on September 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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