Paul Joseph Johnson, age 29, from Calumet, Michigan, Houghton county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A 1St Bn 505Th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, Nc 28310
Date of death: Monday, October 20, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Al Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Paul Musich, age 20, from Calumet, Michigan, Houghton county.
Parents: Joseph Musich
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, October 30, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Fort Worth Star Telegram (1970)
Marshall Frederick Kipina from Calumet, Michigan, Houghton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: July 13, 1966
Death details: On February 1, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Agency (DPAA) announced that the remains of Staff Sergeant Marshall Frederick Kipina, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified.
Staff Sergeant Kipina, who joined the U.S. Army from Maine, served with the 131st Aviation Company. On July 13, 1966, he was an observer aboard an OV-1C Mohawk that took off from Phu Bai Airfield for a night surveillance mission over Attapu Province, Laos. The aircraft encountered heavy thunderstorms and lost radar and radio contact with its base before crashing in very difficult terrain, killing the crew members. Searches launched after it failed to return to base were unsuccessful, and the crash site was not located until the 1990s. A series of excavations finally located human remains at the site, and DPAA scientists used DNA analysis to identify SSG Kipina’s remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Frederick Joseph Bourgeois from Houghton County Calumet, Michigan .
Parents: Walter Joseph Bourgeois
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, March 1, 1942
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston when the ship was attacked traveling from Batavia to Java.
Cemetery: Manila American Cemetery
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, USSHouston.org