This page is dedicated to my brother; Cpl. Allen M. Bowman
Cpl. Allen M. Bowman,
In the early morning hours of November 28, 1950 my brother was
killed in action A Map of the Battlefield at Yudam-ni on the night of Nov.27-28, 1950
The PURPLEHEART Citation, Al was wounded at Pusan In August before losing his life in November, 1950 The Presidential Unit Citation The Presidential Award A letter from General Douglas McArthur Award of Medals A letter from The Company Commander A letter from the Chaplin which verfies where Allen is buried. This, I call the BLUESMOKE letter, which denies that Al's remains are recoverable. I also contend that an expiditionary party could go to Yudamni and find the temporary gravesite of the men that were buried there on Dec, 1st. 1950. It should be a point of negotiation with the North Korean Government to permit such an exploratory expidition before relations are normalized between the North and The South Korean Governments. THESE MARINES SHOULD BE BROUGHT HOME!! I am still searching to find a way to have the United States Government
embark upon the task of finding the mis-laid remains of my Brother who was
KIA at Yudam-ni on Nov. 28, 1950. I have supplied the information to the
graves department, and have submitted a DNA sample of my blood to them, all
to no avail.
He was buried in a mass grave about a 1/2 mile west of the village of
Yudam-ni with nearly 90 casualties. That grave was reopened in 1960-61 and
the contents were repatriated to the US Government at the demilitarized zone
at the 38th Paralel. These are the facts, as reported to me by a Marine who
went to the exchange site and returned his own brother (who was in the same
outfit and KIA on the same night and buried in the same mass grave) to
Wisconsin in 1961.
I am in possession of a map that was given to me by a marine who was in
the burial detail that placed the bodies in the grave.
I am in posession of the wristwatch that my brother was wearing when he
was KIA. His personal possessions were sent to our home on Christmas EVE of
1950, which contained some shoes, unsent letter to Mom, billfold, crusifix,
one dog tag, and other sundrie items. This most certainly verifies that he
was found upon the battle field, processed for burial and duly entombed with
his fellow casualties.
With all due consideration of the facts that are presented,
I fail to understand who dropped the ball and let my brother's remains
dissapear from United States Posession.
Maybe this additional information will help bring my search to a
sucessful closure.
I have had a Memorial page posted on the Internet for over 10 years, from
which I have had input to my search, which has provived me with the map of
burial site and the story of the Wisconsin party involved with the retrieval
of his own brother's remains.
It would seem to me that my story has reached many, in Government who
see it as much to involved to bring to a closure and subsequently discard it
as unsolvable. I once had the email address and did exchange information
with a lady in charge of Marine statistics at Cherry Point s.c. but that
computer that I was using crashed and I lost the correspondence. The
corresspondence can be described by saying that it was a cover-your-tail
standard form reply to me.
If any of you Marines are left from the Korean conflict, I would like you to get out there and kick some ass and get my brothers remains found.
IF THE READER CAN HELP, IN ANY WAY
PLEASE MAKE ANY REPLIES:
To: ... tpicker@cni.net
A news clip that I found in Mom's trunk upon her passing
