The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
James Paul O'Leary
Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit
HQ CO 3 BN 8 REGT 1 CAV DIV
Date of Death
June 13, 1951
Sergeant O'Leary was a member of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 2, 1950 and died in a prison camp on June 13, 1951 of Pellagra and malnutrition. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.