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Lester A. Cox
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
October 31, 1950
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Sergeant Cox was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South North Korea on July 12, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner during the march south of Manpo, North Korea on October 31, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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