Entry: 97752
Subject: MY UNCLE LLOYD B CROSBY
Subject: MY UNCLE LLOYD B CROSBY
Scott Crosby wrote on April 20, 2019
City and State: MONTPELIER VA
Unit: 4TH AABN
Service or Relationship: usmc
Comments: ive recently come across some information about my uncle loyd in the mining camp that has several other names included in it it talks about and tells how these men were treated and died
Keywords:
Entry: 86375
Subject: JAMES HAROLD LYNCH.. MINING CAMP
Subject: JAMES HAROLD LYNCH.. MINING CAMP
Patricia Gatley (Lynch) wrote on May 30, 2013
City and State: CENTERVILLE TN
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: I did a great deal of research in the years after my children
grew up and lessened my load at the home place, my husband and I
started out with a trip to St. Louis to see the records at the
Archives. I learned a great deal there.
I came across the names of the men who were in the Mining Camp
with my dad.
I opened up my computer and found an email from Hal and I sat
down in a fast second and started typing.. and because of that I
have no names of the men I discovered because of that trip. If I
wait to locate them in my record room,this letter will not get
written and I feel I must go on with it. so please forgive me
for the lack of information on them.
I was so blessed to contact the doctor who signed my dads
death certificate soon after the troops arrived at the Mining
Camp. He told me that my dad was very ill with dysentery, a
very high temperature and pneumonia. Some soldier dug into the
ice that covered the river there and brought my dad a mug of
water. It was mush, much like an icey drink the little kids
love to drink in the summer time. He was sick. very very sick
and despite the training he had as a Medic and his knowledge
that told him not to, he drank that nasty water as fast as he
could. It froze his esophagus and that caused his heart to stop
beating. He groaned and looked around and slumped over dead.
His body had to lay until the doctor could be there to examine
him and sign the death certificate. Cause of death being
starvation, hypothermia and dehydration. The soldiers carried
him to a hillside..laid him down there and covered his body with
rocks and limbs. When spring came and the bodies of all the dead
men started to rot and stink, dyptheria and other diseases
started to grow the bodies were taken to an old abandoned gold
mine and they were blown up with dynamite to seal them.
Our Army is over there, north Korea, digging up the bodies of
our loved ones and trying to identify as many as they an so they
can be returned..remember they were promised that No one will
be left behind. The North Koreans wont allow them to come to
the Mining Camp yet, but if they were allowed to the chance of
finding the bodies in those blown up mines would be pretty small.
My family has all been requested and have complied with the
request for blood samples for the dna test required to identify
him should a body be found.
America pays the Koreans a lot of money to be allowed to come
and dig for the bodies, a few have been found. I don't expect
to get the message that my dad will be coming home, but Korea
just might get hungry enough to change their minds about the
digging. I figure the threat of bombs might be behind the hunger
already and when they find out that doesn't work, the money just
might be requested. I have mixed feelings about that. As much
as Id like/love to have my dad home and in the little sweet
graveyard where his parents are and his brothers, I would rather
the money go to help pay America out of debt. Its not my
decision and Im glad of that.
I dreamed for years of my Dad coming home. His parents raised
me and they kept that dream alive. After my trip to St Louis I
had to bury that and start paying more attention to my family.
Living in the past is not good for long, but one thing is
absolutely true.. a man is not dead until hes forgotten and that
will never happen.
Pat Lynch Gatley 1909 hwy 48 south Centerville tn 37033 931
729 9437
Keywords: My dad, James Harold Lynch was captured on November 30th 1950 at
Kunari..He was a medic and had many soldiers under his care that
night. I have no idea of what he went thru that cold night, but
Im sure his time was spent trying to secure his patients and
there was very little he could do, but he didn't run. Of this I
am sure.
Entry: 84960
Subject: PVT. WILBERT DINGMAN
Subject: PVT. WILBERT DINGMAN
Richard Matson wrote on December 12, 2012
City and State: KENTWOOD MI
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: I can add little to what my half-sister, Arlene Chirhart,
has said. We and our families would really appreciate
learning anything about Wilbert's final days and
circumstances - cause of death, etc.
- Rev. Richard L. Matson
12/12/12
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Entry: 45576
Subject: WILBERT I. DINGMAN, MY STEP-BROTHER
Subject: WILBERT I. DINGMAN, MY STEP-BROTHER
Arlene Chirhart wrote on September 2, 2004
City and State: ROSEBURG OR
Unit: C CO 38 INF RGFT 2 INF DIV
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: My step-brother, Wilbert I. "Wild Bill" Dingman, died while a POW in Mining Camp, South Korea. He died 18 May 1951. He was buried on the hill behind the camp. I would like to contact anybody who remembers him, and learn what I can about his time there. I also would like to learn the exact location of the camp, and perhaps obtain a map showing it.
Keywords: Wilbert I "Wild Bill" Dingman, died at Minig Camp, South Korea 18 May 1951 Corporal-E4.
Entry: 45365
Subject: STILL HERE
Subject: STILL HERE