Scott L. Schultz, age 19, from Clinton County Keeseville, New York .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance
Richard Walter Herold from Plattsburgh, New York, Clinton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, September 2, 1972
Death details: Captain Richard Walter Herold, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New York, served with Detachment 1, 56th Special Operations Wing. On September 2, 1972, he departed Vientiane, Laos, piloting an O-1F Bird Dog (tail number 57-2799, call sign “Raven 23”) on a visual reconnaissance and forward air control (FAC) mission. During the mission, he was directing two F-4 Phantom II aircraft to a suspected enemy artillery location in the vicinity of grid (GC) UG 005 487 when his aircraft collided mid-air with one of the F-4s he was directing. The other F-4, the lead, lost contact with both aircraft at the same time and reported he saw two fireballs impact the ground, and a single parachute; but could not establish contact with Captain Herold or the crew of the other F-4. The lead Phantom then conducted an aerial search of the area but saw no signs of survival. A search and rescue (SAR) effort could not be conducted at the time due to enemy activity in the area, further attempts to locate Captain Herold were unsuccessful. Today, Captain Herold is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Michael James Petrashune, age 22, from Lyon Mountain, New York, Clinton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, December 11, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
William Wallace Morrow from Ausable Chasm, New York, Clinton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, June 22, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Edward Frederick Jr. Brown, age 19, from Plattsburgh, New York, Clinton county.
Parents: Edward F. Brown Sr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 12, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Troy Record (1970)
John Jay Edwards, age 20, from Clinton County Lock Haven, New York .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 4, 1966
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Thomas Farrell Eldridge, age 25, from Clinton County Rouses Point, New York .
Spouse: Kathleen Anne Eldridge
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, December 29, 1965
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Troy Record (1966)
Ronald Miller Fero, age 32, from Clinton County Scotia, New York .
Parents: Halcyon R. Fero
Children: Three daughters
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 20, 1965
Death details: Killed in a plane crash in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Edward A. Jr. Malewicz, age 22, from Clinton County Scotia, New York .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, October 11, 1965
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Times Reocrd (1965)
Arthur Barrett, age 27, from New York, Clinton county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, July 19, 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 and food and water supplied 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. Private First Class Arthur Barrett joined the U.S. Army in New York and served with Company A of the 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of malaria on July 19, 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, Private First Class Barrett is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency