Kenneth Tyler Butler, age 21, from East Liverpool, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 57Th Military Police Company, 92D Mp Bn, 89Th Mp Bde, Schofield Barracks, Hi
Date of death: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Robert Blane Wirks, age 20, from East Palestine, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Parents: James and Phyllis Doll Wirks
Spouse: Celia Griffin Works (married 1969)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: East Palestine High graduate
Date of death: Friday, September 25, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Evening Review (1970)
Alfonza Foster, age 21, from East Liverpool, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Parents: Delores D. Foster
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, August 28, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
William Dennis Gallaway, age 21, from East Liverpool, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 24, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Duane Joseph Marhefka, age 23, from Kensington, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Parents: John and Rose Jedinak Marhefka
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Company C, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 198th Light Infantry Brigade of the Americal Division
Date of death: Sunday, January 25, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Salem News (1970)
Dallas Reese Pridemore from East Liverpool, Ohio, Columbiana county. Their last known residence was in East Liverpool.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: September 8, 1968
Death details: On September 8, 1968, he was visiting a Vietnamese family at Kien Thiet, Thu Duc Province, South Vietnam, when a Viet Cong unit came to the house and took SFC Pridemore captive. He was reportedly taken to a pagoda in Phong Phu and then turned over to a “special action group” and held at an unknown location. He never returned to U.S. custody and his remains have not been accounted for.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Berg Labbe, age 19, from Columbiana County Salem, Ohio .
Parents: Helen Labbe
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 4, 1966
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1966)
Elwood William Jr. Davis, age 26, from Columbiana County Salineville, Ohio .
Parents: Elwood Davis
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division
Date of death: Wednesday, November 17, 1965
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Evening Review (1965)
Joseph James Jr. Compa, age 34, from Columbiana County East Liverpool, Ohio .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, June 10, 1965
Death details: On June 10, 1965, a UH-1B Iroquois (tail number 63-38557) with a crew of four and three passengers took off from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, on a mission to extract personnel from the Dong Xoai Special Forces Camp, South Vietnam. The camp was under attack, and as the helicopter was disembarking its three passengers at the landing zone, it came under heavy mortar and small arms fire from enemy forces in the area. The helicopter took off and began climbing, but crashed shortly thereafter near Thuan Loi Airfield. One of the passengers radioed that everyone else on board was killed in the crash, and that he was taking heavy mortar and small-arms fire. The crew of another helicopter flying the same mission saw mortar rounds exploding in the area from where the passenger was last heard. Because of enemy activity in the area, a search and rescue mission could not be conducted. The four crew members and three passengers remain unaccounted for. Staff Sergeant Joseph James Compa Jr. entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of 118th Aviation Company, 145th Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Brigade. He was the crew chief aboard the UH-1B when it crashed on June 10, 1965, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Staff Sergeant Compa is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Joseph James Compa Jr.,, age 34, from East Liverpool, Ohio, Columbiana county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, June 10, 1965
Death details: On June 10, 1965, a UH-1B Iroquois (tail number 63-38557) with a crew of four and three passengers took off from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, on a mission to extract personnel from the Dong Xoai Special Forces Camp, South Vietnam. The camp was under attack, and as the helicopter was disembarking its three passengers at the landing zone, it came under heavy mortar and small arms fire from enemy forces in the area. The helicopter took off and began climbing, but crashed shortly thereafter near Thuan Loi Airfield. One of the passengers radioed that everyone else on board was killed in the crash, and that he was taking heavy mortar and small-arms fire. The crew of another helicopter flying the same mission saw mortar rounds exploding in the area from where the passenger was last heard. Because of enemy activity in the area, a search and rescue mission could not be conducted. The four crew members and three passengers remain unaccounted for. Staff Sergeant Joseph James Compa Jr. entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of 118th Aviation Company, 145th Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Brigade. He was the crew chief aboard the UH-1B when it crashed on June 10, 1965, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Staff Sergeant Compa is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com