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Robert Lee Gillette
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
January 11, 1951
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Private First Class Gillette was a member of Headquarters Company, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Taejon, South Korea on July 20, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on January 11, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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