Lewis N. Crosby
Born: August 18, 1932. Army Pfc. Louis N. Crosby, 18, was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.
On July 27, 2018, following a summit between then- U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea turned over 55 boxes which had been purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on Aug. 1, 2018, and were then sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory for identification. Louis Crosby’s remains of were accounted for on April 21, 2020.
Crosby’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Local and National News Coverage and Memoriams
NBMC information…
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency release…
Information on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir…
- https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/941237449/god-let-us-survive-remembering-korean-wars-chosin-battle-and-evacuation
- https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebInChosinRsrv
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_6uupAEKIU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95CgkrRgp4I
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxpzdm58krA
Korean War Project…
Stars and Stripes…
Charleston Post and Courier article…
WJCL Channel 22 coverage…
WCSC coverage…
WLTX Columbia coverage…
News 2 Charleston coverage…
Korean War - Key Events
June 25, 1950
A massive artillery barrage from the North signals the beginning of the Korean War. Roughly 100,000 North Korean troops pour across the 38th parallel, and, although South Korean forces are driven back, they retire in good order.
These events are taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica
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