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Edwin Gustav Eklund
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Rank
Captain, U.S. Army
Unit
B CO 9 INF 2 DIV
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Date of Death
February 28, 1951
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Captain Eklund was a medical officer with Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division at Chonchon near Kunu-ri, North Korea. He was taken Prisoner of War while tending his wounded comrades on December 1, 1950 and died in captivity in a Death Valley near Pyoktong, North Korea on February 28, 1951 of malnutrition, dysentery and pneumonia. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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