The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Paul Gust Mentzos
Rank
Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 21 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
July 3, 1951
Sergeant First Class Mentzos was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 12, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at An-Dong, North Korea on July 3, 1951 of beriberi and malnutrition. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.