CAPT ELMER JOHN KALLMEYER

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CAPT ELMER JOHN KALLMEYER

ConflictServiceStatus

KOREAN WAR

UNITED STATES ARMY Unaccounted For

On February 5, 1951, Allied forces in Korea launched an offensive against North Korean and Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) north of Wonju. Republic of Korea units and the 38th Infantry Regiment and supporting artillery units, including the 15th and 503rd Field Artillery Battalions, and the 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery and Automatic Weapons Battalion, initially met light resistance on their drive to the north. On February 11, the CCF launched an aggressive counteroffensive that caused the Allies to withdraw back southward. However, the CCF had established a series of roadblocks on the road to the south, forcing the Allies to fight their way back to friendly lines.

Captain Elmer J. Kallmeyer entered the U.S. Army from New York and was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken as a prisoner of war (POW) by enemy forces during the regiment's fighting withdrawal and transferred north to the Suan Bean POW camp. On April 22, 1951, Allied aircraft attacked the Suan Bean camp, a former industrial site, and adjacent to an enemy supply center that the enemy had not identified as a POW facility. Captain Kallmeyer was badly wounded in this attack and died the next day. The details of his burial location are unknown. U.S. investigators have not been able to access the area to search for his burial site and he has not been associated with any remains later returned to U.S. custody. Today, Captain Kallmeyer is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Deferred.

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The ultimate finger of fate striking one down.

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On a smaller, similar to 300 survivors of Hiroshima being transferred to......Nagasaki!

War times are dangerous times!