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Abigail Spanberger: “During the Korean War, US Army Corporal Theodore Landy of…”

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His plane collided with another during a training mission over India. He was never recovered. During the Korean War, US Army Corporal Theodore Landy of Norfolk was taken prisoner by North Korean forces and marched to a camp on the banks of the Yalu river, where he later perished from malnutrition. He, too, was never brought home. And finally, U.S. army Staff Sergeant Mark Stets Jr. Of Virginia Beach. (07:20–07:32)

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Asserts that Corporal Theodore Landy was taken prisoner during the Korean War and died from malnutrition.

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