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John E. Day

1929–1959

United States

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John E. Day Jr. (1929 – September 23, 1959) was a U.S. Army soldier during the Korean War, as well as a murderer, rapist, and convicted war criminal. In December 1950, shortly before the start of the Third Battle of Seoul, Day, who was serving in Seoul as a truck driver, attacked a family of South Korean refugees.

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