James Lester Ennis, age 18, from Brooke County Beech Bottom, West Virginia .
Parents: James Ennis and Mrs. Paul Negri
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 10, 1972
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when he was run over by a bulldozer.
Source: National Archives, Weirton Daily Times (1972)
Joseph Perito, age 21, from Follansbee, West Virginia, Brooke county.
Parents: Ralph and Sandy Mondello Perito
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, September 2, 1970
Death details: Killed in combat when a mechanical ambush device detonated
Source: National Archives, Weirton Daily Times (1970)
Paul Louis Salerno, age 21, from Weirton, West Virginia, Brooke county.
Parents: Evan Salerno (died 1961)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Madonna High (1967)
Military history: Troop A, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division
Date of death: Friday, July 17, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when a land mine detonated while he was acting as a gunner on a military vehicle.
Source: National Archives, Weirton Daily Times
Harry Elmer Lauck, age 26, from Wellsburg, West Virginia, Brooke county.
Parents: Robert E. Lauck and the late Cecilia Lauck
Children: Gregory and Gary Wayne
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, July 14, 1970
Death details: Died in the 249th General Hospital in Japan from injuries sustaibed in Vietnam on July 2 as a passenger on a military vehicle on a mission.
Source: National Archives, Weirton Daily Times (1970)
Robert Boyd Mossgrove, age 21, from Wellsburg, West Virginia, Brooke county.
Parents: Wallace Mossgrove
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Wellsburg High (1968)
Military history: Company E, 9th Infantry Division
Date of death: Wednesday, February 25, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, DPAA, Weirton Daily Times (1970)
Bruce Duane Boettcher from Bethany, West Virginia, Brooke county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Corporal Bruce D. Boettcher, who joined the U.S. Army from West Virginia, was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, his unit was defending a regimental sector near Unsan, North Korea, when it was attacked by Chinese forces and forced to withdraw. It was during this action that CPL Boettcher was taken as a prisoner of war. After his capture, he died of unknown causes on June 30, 1951, while held at Pyoktong POW Camp 5. Attempts to locate his remains since the close of war have been unsuccessful. Today, Corporal Boettcher is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Hinton Leader (1950)