Corporal Hensley was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in Korea on 5 July 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and was killed by a guard near Chunggang-jin, North Korea on 5 November 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Hensley was awarded the Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.