Samuel David Hawkins Military person

Samuel David Hawkins (born August 1933) was the youngest of the American defectors of the Korean War. Hawkins was one of only twenty-two American and British servicemen to defect to China after the conclusion of the war in 1953. Hawkins returned to the United States in 1957.

Personal facts

Samuel David Hawkins
Birth dateAugust 01, 1933
Birth place
Oklahoma , Oklahoma City

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Military person

allegiance
(1950–1953)
(1953–1957; defector)
military branch
United States Army
service start1950
service end1953

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Samuel David Hawkins on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QuQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tZcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2652,1487577&dq=korea+david-hawkins&hl=en
  2. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/hawkins_david_t.html
  3. http://www.nfb.ca/film/they_chose_china