IAGenWeb Project - Allamakee co.

Korean Conflict
1950-1957


Baxter, Donald T.
CPL Army
Allamakee Co. Iowa
Died - December 1, 1950

Iowa News Briefs

(By INS) Waukon—As more than half the population of Waukon turned out to honor Cpl. Dale Reeder as he returned home from a Communist, prison camp in Korea.

Frank Baxter received word that his son, Cpl. Donald Baxter, had died, in a Korean POW camp. A freed prisoner, Paul C. Smithy of Mertens, Tex., wrote that he had been, with Cpl. Baxter when he died and that the Waukon soldier had asked him to send his wallet to his father. Smithy said Baxter died in 1951. He was captured Dec. 1, 1950.

Mount Pleasant News September 1, 1953

 
Reeder, Dale
CPL Army
Waukon, Allamakee Co. Iowa
POW Korea
 
Vickery, Roy M.
PFC Army
Allamakee Co. Iowa
Died - December 1, 1950
Died while captured


- source: Korean Conflict Casualty File, 1950-1957, NARA
- submitted by Sharyl Ferrall

- Mount Pleasant News clipping
- submitted by Cindy Bray Lovell

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