KOREAN WAR PROJECT REMEMBRANCE

CPL Eli Lenzy Jr

715th Transportation Truck Company
Army
Non-hostile, Died Other Causes
Date Of Loss: March 3, 1953
Service Number: ER38087755
Born: August 28, 1919
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Town Or Area: Chunchon
Burial Location
Fort Gibson National Cemetery

Comments: Corporal Lenzy was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a member of the 715th Transportation Truck Company, U.S. Army. On March 3, 1953, he was driving a truck 25 miles north of Chunchon, North Korea, when it went off a cliff killing him. His family remembered him as a good and brave man.

Son of Eli Lenzy of Muscogee, Oklahoma.

Korean War Project Key No: 35129

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August 28, 1919

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FORT GIBSON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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