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Espaillat, Pedro Ignacio
Air Force Senior Airman

Pedro Ignacio Espaillat, age 20, from Columbia, Tennessee, Maury county.

Spouse: Cassandra
Children: Eldon Wyatt Savage, Madison, 1

Service era: Iraq
Schools: Spring Hill High graduate
Military history: 4Th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Seymour Johnson Afb, North Carolina

Date of death: Sunday, May 16, 2004
Death details: Kirkuk, Iraq

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

Bridges, Jerry Glen
Army Staff sergeant

Jerry Glen Bridges, age 20, from Columbia, Tennessee, Maury county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Sunday, October 20, 1968
Death details: On November 13, 2000, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Jerry Glen Bridges, missing from the Vietnam War. Staff Sergeant Bridges entered the U.S. Army from Tennessee and served with the 243rd Assault Helicopter Company, 10th Combat Aviation Battalion. On October 20, 1968, he was the flight engineer aboard a CH-47A Chinook (tail number 66-19053, call sign “Freight Train 53”) that took off from Dong Ba Thien Airfield, South Vietnam, on a resupply mission to Ban Me Thuot. While over the Ninh Hoa Valley area, the helicopter crashed for unknown reasons, killing SSG Bridges. His body was not recovered at the time. The crash site was eventually located in Khan Hoa Province and in 1995, a U.S. investigative team recovered human remains that analysts were able to identify as those of SSG Bridges.
Cemetery: Arlington National

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com

Flowers, Earl
Private

Earl Flowers, age 28, from Columbia, Tennessee, Maury county.

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Friday, December 13, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Brookwood American

Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com

Ferris, Ernest
Private

Ernest Ferris, age 26, from Columbia, Tennessee, Maury county.

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Tuesday, October 29, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: maa

Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com

Fry, Clarence H.
Cadet

Clarence H. Fry, age 24, from Columbia, Tennessee, Maury county.

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Saturday, May 4, 1918
Death details: Died of accident
Cemetery: Rose Hill in Columbia

Source: Memorial at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Johnstown Pennsylvania, findagrave.com

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