U.S. GENERAL’S FATE
death at hands of Koreans reported p TOKYO, August 22. Reliable reports indicated to-day that Major-General William Dean was Knied by the North K< reans after he was wounded and captured at Taejon. ♦k e lV er . aI Dean, form?r commander of tne United States 24th Division, has T «! sted a s missing in action since *jujy 21 He was last seen directing a rearguard action and firing a bazooka mmseif in the retreat from Taejon. ♦ *°rmer interpreter in the United Nnwu Army, who was captured by the rjorth Koreans and recaptured by the Americans, said that he was summoned £ Rlentify General Dean’s body. The mrmer interpreter said that the North Koreans took photographs of the body he viewed it. He said he was posiUVe m his identification.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26199, 24 August 1950, Page 7
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