The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Emil Leopold Palenik
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
A BTRY 38 FA BN 2 DIV
Date of Death
February 5, 1951
Corporal Palenik was a member of Battery A, 38th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Kunu-ri, North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while a prisoner on February 5, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.