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Jack Y. Buff
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Rank
Master Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ CO 1 BN 19 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
February 28, 1951
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Master Sergeant Buff was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 16, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at the "Cornfield" near Manpo, North Korea on February 28, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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