Harry Raymond Swain IV, age 21, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: A Co, 1St Bn, (Blt 1/2, 24Th Meu), 2D Mar, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, Nc
Date of death: Monday, January 31, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Musayyib, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas Alva Walkup Jr., age 25, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 20Th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fl
Date of death: Sunday, November 23, 2003
Death details: Hostile, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Domanick M. Pilla, age 21, from Vineland, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Parents: Diane and Ben Pilla
Service era: Operation Restore Hope (Somalia)
Military history: Army Ranger
Date of death: Sunday, October 3, 1993
Death details: Killed during a 16 hour fight with supporters of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters were brought down
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Tulsa World
Joseph John Jr. Danna, age 29, from Vineland, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 1st Battalion Virginia
Date of death: Wednesday, December 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when a plane crashed and burned on takeoff.
Cemetery: Sacred Heart Church
Source: National Archives, Vineland Daily Journal, Associated Press (1970)
Donald Kenn Springsteadah, age 33, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 11, 1968
Death details: On March 11, 1968, North Vietnamese soldiers conducted a sapper attack against a U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Navigation system, designated Lima Site 85 in Houaphan Province, Laos, also referred to as Phou Pha Thi. The enemy attacked very early in the morning, using grenades and mortars, and eventually killing eleven U.S. Air Force personnel. Nine Americans were later rescued from the site, one who was wounded and then later died of his injuries before he reached the evacuation base. Technical Sergeant Donald Kennebunk Springsteadah, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New Jersey, served with Detachment 1, 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron. He was killed during the attack on Lima Site 85 on March 11, 1968, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Technical Sergeant Springsteadah is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Carlton R. Gourlay from New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, January 11, 1943
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, with food and water 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 Carlton R. Gourlay joined the U.S. Army from New Jersey and was a member of Company B, 803rd Engineer’s Battalion in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of diphtheria on January 11, 1943 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 Gourlay is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency