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Cpl. Mitchell Red Cloud Jr.

A Ho-Chunk soldier from Hatfield, Wisconsin, Red Cloud served with the Marine Raiders in World War II and later joined the Army. Near Chonghyon, Korea, on 5 November 1950, he warned his company of a surprise Chinese attack and kept firing, badly wounded, until he was killed. He was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Service: USMC 1941–1945 · U.S. Army 1948–1950
Unit: Company E, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
Conflict: Korean War
Hometown: Hatfield, Wisconsin
Born: 2 July 1924
Died: 5 November 1950
Honors: Medal of Honor (posthumous)

Summary sources: Wikipedia: Mitchell Red Cloud Jr.. Related pages: 19th Infantry Regiment .

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Service story · researched from public records

Mitchell Red Cloud — Marine Corps & Army, 1941–1950

Born 1924 · Died 1950-11-05

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KOREA1 RECORD PAGE1 SOURCES CITED

At a glance

Mitchell Red Cloud

Confirmed match · Written for family readers — military jargon explained as you go.

Who: Mitchell Red Cloud · born 1924 · died 1950-11-05
Service: Marine Corps & Army · 1941–1950
His job: Corporal (rank and duty as listed in the casualty file)
Where: Hatfield, WI

Most notable moment (from the records):
Casualty file: 1950-11-05 with 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th ID.

Why we matched this record (Confirmed, 114 evidence points)

same last name; first name matches; same branch; war listed as Korea; independently corroborated by Korean War Extract Data File (DCAS), NARA RG 330; Medal of Honor on public award record; public casualty/death profile matched; unit listed as 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th ID.

Confirmed = an exact identifier matches. Likely = several independent details match. Possible = some details match; needs checking.

01 · Timeline

What the records say, in order

1950-11-05

Public memorial / award record:

Corporal, Army, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th ID, Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor; Korean War Chonghyon last stand from records found CONFIRMED1

Ranks explained

Every rate he held, decoded

Service records write ranks and rates in dense abbreviations — Army grades such as Pvt/Pfc; Navy rates such as ( S1c(SM) or SM2c(T)). Below is each rate that appears in his records — badge, plain English, pay grade, a rough Army equivalent, and what the specialty did day to day. Badges are diagrammatic WWII-style rating marks (specialty symbol + chevrons), generated for this report so the standalone file works offline.

Rate / rank

CPL — Corporal

Pay grade: E-4 · Rough Army equivalent: Corporal

What it meant: Junior NCO; often a fire-team leader.

Day to day (general, not personal): Junior NCO; often a fire-team leader.

Muster-roll abbreviation glossary

Abbreviation	Meaning
`c`	Class — as in S1c = Seaman First Class; 3c/2c/1c = Third/Second/First Class petty officer.
`CPL`	Corporal

General reference from WWII Navy rating structure and common muster annotations. OCR on scanned rolls can garble letters (S1c↔Slc, MoMM1c↔MoMMlc); always check the page image.

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Notable stories

Why his name is remembered

Medal of Honor

Mitchell Red Cloud was awarded the Medal of Honor. See the citation links below for the official account of the action. — Award record / CMOHS

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02 · Gaps and next records

What we still don't know

No VA-maintained burial record found under this name. Private-cemetery government headstones before 1997 are often missing from the VA dataset.

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03 · Sources

1 Curated public memorial profile (Wikipedia/CMOHS-backed) — https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/mitchell-red-cloud-jr

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