Korean Struggle soldier Felix Yanez’s stays returning to Ariz. for burial

The stays of a 19-year-old soldier from Douglas, Arizona, who was killed in motion through the Korean Struggle in 1950 will arrive in Tucson on Tuesday, in line with the soldier’s household.

Pvt. Felix M. Yanez served as a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Firm, nineteenth Infantry Regiment, twenty fourth Infantry Division. He died on July 16, 1950, whereas preventing to maintain the North Korean Army from advancing. He died alongside the Kum River, north of Taejon in South Korea.

His stays will likely be transported from Hawaii to Tucson, the place they are going to be escorted by Patriot Guard Riders — a company whose members attend the funerals of U.S. navy servicemembers and first responders — to the South Garden Cemetery in preparation for burial on Sept. 3.

In response to a abstract offered by the navy describing the timeline main as much as Yanez’s demise, the younger man was despatched with others from the nineteenth Infantry Regiment to combat the struggle in its early days.

The regiment was deployed to South Korea from Japan on July 4, and the struggle was not going nicely. The regiment was “badly understrength,” missing heavy artillery and anti-tank weapons, the doc acknowledged.

Simply 10 days after Yanez arrived in Korea, the scenario was dire. At one level, the nineteenth Infantry Regiment held defensive positions alongside the Kum River, and coated an especially massive space of operations that stretched virtually 30 miles. The North Korean Army beat again the enemy by small arms and artillery hearth.