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Roger Wayne Deeds, age 24, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 1St Mar, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Ubaydi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Bryan Edward Barron, age 26, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 155Th Infantry, Biloxi, Mississippi
Date of death: Monday, May 23, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Haswa, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James William Hudson, age 19, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: L. J. Hudson Sr.
Spouse: Brillia Hudson
Children: James W. Jr. and Frederick Maurice Hudson
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Nichols High (1961)
Date of death: Monday, July 27, 1970
Source: National Archives, Biloxi Sun Herald (1970)
Bobby Lee Bailey, age 20, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Leonard Bailey
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, McComb Enterprise Journal (1970)
Timothy Clay McCarthy, age 19, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: James P. McCarthy
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Biloxi High
Date of death: Wednesday, June 24, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Cemetery: Detroit
Source: National Archives, Biloxi Sun Herald (1970)
Lawrence Scott Miller, age 18, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Robert L. Miller
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Graduated high school in Austin, Texas.
Date of death: Wednesday, March 18, 1970
Death details: Killed in action at an outpost on the Cambodian border
Source: National Archives, Biloxi Sun Herald (1970)
Louis Douglas Richardson, age 19, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Company C, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
Date of death: Wednesday, November 17, 1965
Cemetery: Mobile National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
John Oliver Jr. Tremmel, age 18, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 21, 1943
Death details: From November 20 through 23, 1943, the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy conducted a large-scale amphibious assault on the Japanese-held atoll of Tarawa as part of Operation Galvanic, the Allied capture of the Gilbert Islands. Located 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, Tarawa was a crucial stepping stone in the planned U.S. offensive across the central Pacific toward Japan. The Japanese garrison on Tarawa’s main island of Betio was well-entrenched with hundreds of bunkers and gun positions behind formidable beach obstacles. The first wave of Marines approaching the shore encountered lower-than-expected tides, forcing them to leave their landing craft on the reef and wade the hundreds of yards to the beach under intense enemy fire. The heaviest number of U.S. casualties were suffered during this phase of the landing. Eventually, rising tides allowed U.S. warships to maneuver closer to shore and support the troops with effective naval gunfire. More Marines landed on the second day, launching attacks inland from the beaches and seizing the Japanese airfield on the island. However, the enemy launched vicious counterattacks and two more days of intense fighting were needed to secure Betio. The last enemy strongpoints were taken on the morning of November 23. The fighting on Betio cost the Marines nearly 3,000 casualties but enabled U.S. forces to press further across the Pacific and yielded valuable tactical lessons that reduced U.S. losses in future amphibious landings. Private John Oliver Tremmel Jr. joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Louisiana and was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which took part in the Battle of Tarawa. On November 21, 1943, he was killed in action on Betio and was buried in Cemetery #11, but after the war his remains were not located and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Private Tremmel is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Eurise A. Seymour, age 20, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, June 11, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Staff Sergeant Eurise A. Seymour joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Mississippi and was a member of the 17th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of dysentery on June 11, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Staff Sergeant Seymour is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency