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Arturo Rodriguez, age 19, from Bellflower, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Date of death: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Death details: Died in Paktika Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire.
Source: Department of Defense., Military Times
Jesse Clifford Frey, age 20, from Bellflower, California, Los Angeles county.
Spouse: Adell C. Frey
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, February 25, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Independent (1970)
Earl Gene Hudson, age 21, from Bellflower, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, June 12, 1951
Death details: Killed aboard the destroyer USS Walke which was was providing anti-submarine protection to carriers from Task Force 77 off the east coast of Wonsan, North Korea, when it was struck on the port side by an enemy mine or torpedo. The force of the explosion tossed many sailors into the water, and those who were injured had a difficult time staying afloat while they waited for rescue. Twenty-six sailors were killed in the explosion and forty were wounded.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Daryl Tine Adams, age 19, from Bellflower, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, December 31, 1950
Death details: On July 30, 1950, the 24th Infantry Division’s undermanned and ill-equipped 19th Infantry Regiment, which had been rushed to Korea from garrison duty in Japan, established defensive lines around the South Korean city of Chinju. The soldiers of the 19th Infantry faced the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA), which was moving inexorably south down the Korean peninsula. The unit lacked heavy artillery and anti-tank weaponry, and the Americans were ultimately unable to stop the NKPA and were forced to withdraw further south to prevent being surrounded. Private First Class Daryl Tine Adams joined the U.S. Army from California and was a member of the Service Company, 19th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. On July 30, 1950, he was captured in the vicinity of Masan, South Korea, during the fighting withdrawal south from the Chinju area. As a prisoner of war, PFC Adams was marched to holding camps in North Korea. On or before December 31, 1950, he died of malnutrition at a holding point in Chung-gong. Circumstances surrounding the burial of his body were unreported, and he remains unaccounted-for following the incident. Today, Private First Class Adams is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Los Angeles Times (1954)
Charles Eugene Hudson, age 39, from Bellflower, California, Los Angeles county.
Spouse: Mrs. Ethel Marie Francis Hudson
Service era: World War II
Date of death: December 7, 1941. Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for December 22, 2020.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency