Christopher Conrad Rafferty, age 37, from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Fayette county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Enduring Freedom
Military history: Company C, 37th Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Friday, July 21, 2006
Death details: Hostile, died in Sharana, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Walter Joseph Jr. Vichosky, age 23, from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Fayette county. Their last known residence was in Millville, New Jersey.
Parents: Walter Sr.
Spouse: Phyllis A. Vichosky
Children: Walter III
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Brashier High
Date of death: Friday, August 6, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Millville Daily (1971)
Robert C. Shumar from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Fayette county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, March 21, 1958
Death details: Killed when the H-19 helicopter he wasw aboard crashed near Seoul, South Korea
Source: UP (1970)
Robert C. Shumar, age 32, from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Fayette county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, March 21, 1958
Death details: Killed when the H-19 helicopter he wasw aboard crashed near Seoul, South Korea
Source: UP (1970)
Andy Jr. Hollis, age 24, from Fayette County Brownsville, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Andrew Hollis
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, June 18, 1953
Death details: Killed in the crash of an Air Force C0124 Globemaster near Tokyo.
Source: United Press (1953), Indiana Gazette (1953)
Peter P. Jr. Helisek from Fayette County Brownsville, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Peter P. Helisek
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, July 10, 1943
Death details: On April 15, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Cpl. Peter P. Helisek Jr., missing from World War II. Helisek entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served in Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. On July 10, 1943, he was killed on the first day of Operation Husky, which began in the early hours of the morning as ground troops moved onto the beaches of southeastern Sicily, where soft sand and shifting sandbars created congestion, exacerbated by enemy air attacks and artillery barrages. By mid-morning on July 10, between 150 and 200 American landing craft were stranded along the shoreline. Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command, Army Quartermaster Corps, the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater, conducted final search and recovery operations of battlefields in Sicily, but found no information regarding Helisek. He was declared non-recoverable in 1948. In October 2020, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed one set of unknown remains from Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. The remains were transferred and accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for scientific analysis. The laboratory analysis and totality of circumstantial evidence identified the remains as those of Helisek.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1943), Daily Courier (1944)