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Elwood Lewis Ditmer
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ BTRY 63 FA BN 24 DIV
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Date of Death
November 2, 1950
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Sergeant Ditmer was a member of Headquarters Battery, 63rd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Kum River, South Korea on July 14, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and was shot by a guard on the death march near Manpo, North Korea on November 2, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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