Aetonu Litisoni

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Litisoni Aetonu is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

UN Memorial Wall of Remembrance

Name:

Litisoni Aetonu

Rank:

Sergeant First Class

Serial Number:

30110159

Unit:

2nd Engineer Regiment, 2nd Division

Date of Death:

1951-04-30

State:

American Samoa

Cemetery:

Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA

Plot:

Court 4

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Korean Service Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Prisoner of War Medal; Purple Heart Medal; Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation; Republic of Korea War Service Medal; United Nations Service Medal

Comments:

Litisoni Aetonu was born on July 5, 1923. He was married to Chul Young Park Aetonu. He served in the 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, as a Sergeant First Class during the Korean War.

SFC Aetonu was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri, North Korea, on November 30, 1950, and died while a prisoner on April 30, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. He also has a cenotaph in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, weremember.abmc.gov