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Ernest Arthur Wendling
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
November 4, 1950
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Private First Class Wendling was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 12, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and was killed by his guard during the march from Manpo to Chunggang-jin, North Korea on November 4, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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