Private First Class Massey was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 28, 1950 and died while a prisoner on March 31, 1951. PFC Massey's remains were recovered and identified in 2014. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.