KOREAN WAR PROJECT REMEMBRANCE

CPL John Walton Collier

Medal Of Honor
27th Infantry Regiment
C CO 1 BN
Army
Hostile, Died (KIA)
Date Of Loss: September 19, 1950
Service Number: RA15377981
Born: April 3, 1929
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Worthington, Kentucky
Location Or Battle Zone: Pusan Perimeter - Southwest
Town Or Area: Chindong-Ni Area
Hill Or Outpost: Imjin Mountain Sobuk Range
Burial Location
Arlington National Cemetery

Comments: Corporal Collier was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On September 19, 1950, he volunteered to lead three comrades on an assault of a heavily fortified position near Chindong-ni, South Korea. He destroyed an enemy machine-gun nest killing four North Koreans. After he rejoined his squad, a grenade fell among them. Warning his comrades to take cover, he fell upon the grenade killing himself.

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