Douglas John Weismantle, age 28, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Hhc 1st Battalion 325th Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, Nc 28307
Date of death: Monday, October 13, 2003
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Miitary Times
Rafael Luis Navea, age 34, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: C Battery 2nd Battalion 5th Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Date of death: Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Death details: Hostile, died in Falluja, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Alan B. Craver, age 32, from Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Spouse: None
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Penn Hills High (1976), Penn State University
Military history: Alan joined a Centre County reserve unit in 1983 while attending Penn State.
Date of death: Monday, February 25, 1991
Death details: Killed by SCUD missle attack.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Pottsville Republican (1991)
Monray C. Carrington, age 22, from North Braddock, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Parents: Vivian Carrington
Spouse: Denise
Children: Monray Jr., 2
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Swissvale High graduate
Date of death: Friday, December 21, 1990
Death details: Killed when a ferry capsized near Haifa, Israel.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Department of Defense, Pittsburgh Press (1990)
Richard A. Morrow, age 21, from Allegheny County Clairton, Pennsylvania .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Associated Press (1983)
Edgar C. II Moran, age 19, from Morgan, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Parents: Betty and Edgar C. Moran
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Chartiers Valley High (1974)
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand. When the next day an Air Force captain knocked on Betty Moran’s door at 2:30 a.m., she didn’t want to let him in. “I heard about the helicopter crashing in Thailand on the news. I felt if I kept him on the other side it wouldn’t be true.”
Cemetery: Chartiers
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1975)
William Clare Coltman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: September 28, 1972
Death details: On December 19, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel William Clare Coltman, missing from the Vietnam War.
Colonel Coltman joined the U.S. Air Force from Pennsylvania and was a member of the 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 28, 1972, he piloted an F-111A Aardvark on a solo strike mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. The aircraft crashed during the mission due to unknown causes, and Col Coltman was killed in the incident. Immediate search efforts along the Aardvark’s planned flight route failed to locate a crash site, and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigative team recovered remains from a crash site associated with Col Coltman’s F-111A. Forensic analysis eventually identified the recovered remains as those of Col Coltman.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
David Mathew Thompson from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1972
Death details:
Lieutenant David Mathew Thompson, who joined the U.S. Navy from Pennsylvania, was a member of Fighter Squadron 24, embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CVA 19). On August 12, 1972, LT Thompson piloted a single-seat F-8J Crusader (bureau number 150336) that was returning to the Hancock, located in the Gulf of Tonkin. His Crusader disappeared from radar eight miles from the ship, in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q YF 548 691. Extensive search efforts for the aircraft began immediately, but were unsuccessful. Lieutenant Thompson’s remains were not recovered, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Lieutenant Thompson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.
Source: National Archives., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
David Charles Bruggeman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, April 1, 1972
Investigation in the disappearance of James Worth
Death details: On April 1, 1972, Corporal James Frederick Worth was member of a five-man artillery spotter team which was directed to evacuate an outpost in the vicinity of (GC) YD 215 742, near Gio Linh in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. As the team prepared to board a helicopter for evacuation, enemy artillery rounds and small arms fire hit a bunker where Cpl Worth and David Charles Bruggeman were standing, killing David. The three other members of the team recovered the lieutenant’s body but were unable to locate Cpl Worth, who had disappeared. They began searching for him, but were forced to leave when the evacuation helicopter began taking enemy fire. After the helicopter took off, Cpl Worth radioed that he was on his way to Dong Ha to join up with another group of Marine advisors. Corporal Worth was not heard from again, and his remains were never recovered.
Source: National Archives, Library of Congress
Vincent Edward Galka, age 20, from Allegheny County McKeesport, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Edward F. Galka
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: McKeesport High (1969)
Date of death: Sunday, December 26, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, died in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, virtualwall.org, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1971)