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Loren Reed USMC

April 1, 2014

He joined the Marine Corp. Feb. 3 1946, with good friends Max McCrea and Francis Greenfield in Wichita, Kans. 
 He trained as a military policeman. He made Coporal while in San Diego, and made Sergeant after couple of months in Korea. He arrived there in March 1951, and he wrote us many letters as to what was happening there, and Sept 29th, we received a telegram stating that he was killed in action on Sept. 21st. while fighting the enemy at Hill 812, near Hwang-gi, North Korea. He was a member of the 2nd Platoon Company H 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Division. 
 Sergeant Reed was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, the Combact Action Ribbon, the Presidential Unit Citation, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal W/Star, the ROK Presidential Unit Citation, the United Nations Korean Medal and the ROK War Service Medal.
 His body was returned to Wichita Jan 1952, escorted by Sgt. Whitley Lambright. Military Services were held, and he was laid to rest at The Old Mission Cemetery.