Allen Melvin Hutchinson, age 20, from Auburn, Maine, Androscoggin county.
Parents: Belle Hillman Hutchinson and Waldo Hutchinson
Spouse: Cheryl (Piper)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Edward Little High graduate
Date of death: Thursday, February 5, 1970
Death details: Killed in action while on a reconnaissance patrol in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Portland Press Herald (1970)
Peter George Vlahakos, age 30, from Auburn, Maine, Androscoggin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, February 1, 1966
Death details: On February 1, 1966, a KC-130F Hercules (bureau number 149809) took off carrying six crew members on an aerial refueling mission over the Gulf of Tonkin. En route to its rendezvous point, all radio and radar contact was lost with the aircraft while over the water in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q YE 520 190. Search efforts to locate the aircraft and the six crew members were unsuccessful. Staff Sergeant Peter George Vlahakos entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Maine and was a member of the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, 1st Marine Air Wing. He was a crew member aboard this Hercules when it disappeared on February 1, 1966, and was lost with the aircraft. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Staff Sergeant Vlahakos is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Reginald Nicholas, age 29, from Androscoggin County Auburn, Maine .
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, October 3, 1965
Death details: Hostile; killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Robert Nelson Fenderson from Auburn, Maine, Androscoggin county.
Spouse: Ida Evangeline Fenderson
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Alden M. Gayton from Androscoggin County Auburn, Maine .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of wounds
Source: Soldiers of the Great War