The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
James Earnest Viars
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
I CO 21 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
November 2, 1950
Corporal Viars 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 Hanjang-ni, North Korea on November 27, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.