Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Richard Borger, age 38, from San Pedro, California, Los Angeles county.
Spouse: Evelyn Mae Borger
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, News Pilot (1942)
Paul Heino Gebser, age 38, from San Diego, California, San Diego county.
Parents: Henry W. Gebser
Service era: World War II
Schools: San Diego High graduate
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for Sept. 30, 2019
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Los Angeles Times (1941)
Leo Basil Regan, age 38, from San Diego., California, San Diego county.
Spouse: Anna Regan
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains not recovered
Source: National Archives, Daily News (1942)
Allen Ray Teer, age 38, from Long Beach, California, Los Angeles county.
Spouse: Una Estell Teer
Children: David, 3
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Long Beach Sun (1942)
William McKnight Curry, age 38, from Shelby County Memphis, Tennessee .
Parents: W. A. Curry
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma
Source: National Archives, Memphis Commercial Appeal (1942)
George Gidney, age 38, from Box Elder County Brigham, Utah .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, October 1, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Wesley Freml, age 38, from San Antonio, Texas, Bexar county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, June 29, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Somme American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Meek Feezel, age 38, from Sevierville, Tennessee, Sevier county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Thursday, June 20, 1918
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Burchfield Memorial, Sevier County
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com
George Eugene Hartwell, age 38, from Marion County Carlyle, Illinois .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Master Sergeant George Eugene Hartwell, who joined the U.S. Army from Illinois, served with B Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on December 1, 1950, as his unit was withdrawing from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, and was marched with a large group of prisoners to Camp 5, Pyoktong, North Korea. He died there of malnutrition and dysentery at an unspecified date several weeks after he arrived. Records indicate that he was buried at Camp 5; however his remains have not been recovered. Master Sergeant Hartwell is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Streator Times Press (1951)