KOREAN WAR PROJECT REMEMBRANCE

SGT Wallace Thornton

64th Heavy Tank Battalion
C CO
Army
Non-hostile, Died Other Causes
Date Of Loss: January 11, 1951
Service Number: ER34419111
Born: May 4, 1913
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Lincoln, Alabama
Burial Location
Pine Grove Cemetery, Lincoln, Al

Comments: Sergeant Thornton was a member of Company C, 64th Tank Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He developed acute nephritis and pneumonia and was evacuated to the 10th Station Hospital in Pusan, South Korea where he died on January 11, 1951.

Son of Thomas Only Thornton of Lincoln, Alabama.

Korean War Project Key No: 36247

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