Osborne, Dick Eugene
Army Private 1st class
Dick Eugene Osborne, age 17, from Brookville, Pennsylvania, Jefferson county.
Parents: Clara E. Osborne
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On January 27, 2012, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Dick Eugene Osborne, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Osborne entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served with Company L of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, CPL Osborne and members of Company L were fighting Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) near Unsan, North Korea, north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the “Camel’s Head Bend.” That day, the CCF struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. CPL Osborne did not survive this action, though specific details surrounding his loss are unknown, and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2007, the North Korean government repatriated remains of U.S. service members, including some recovered from the area where CPL Osborne reportedly died in battle. U.S. analysts eventually identified CPL Osborne from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Bloomsburg Press Enterprise (1954)