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Leonard L. Pierce
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
M CO 34 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
January 31, 1951
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Private First Class Pierce was a member of Company M, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 13, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on January 31, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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