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 June 23, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Donald Kennebunk Springsteadah, missing from the Vietnam War.
Springsteadah entered the U.S. Air Force from New Jersey and served with Detachment 1, 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron. In 1968, he and 18 other men were assigned to Lima Site 85, a tactical air navigation radar site on a remote, 5,600-foot mountain peak known as Phou Pha Thi in Houaphan Province, Laos. In the early morning of March 11, North Vietnamese commandos attacked the site with grenades and mortars, causing the Americans to seek safety on a narrow ledge of the steep mountain. A few hours later, under the protective cover of A-1 Skyraider aircraft, U.S. helicopters were able to rescue eight of the men. Springsteadah and ten other Americans were killed in action and unable to be recovered. From 1994 to 2009, in cooperation with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.), joint teams led by DPAA’s predecessor Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) conducted multiple recovery operations, pursuing witness leads and recovering evidence and remains. In 2023, DPAA personnel and members from partner organizations discovered unexploded ordnance, incident-related materials, and possible osseus remains from the research site, leading to the identification of a missing American service member. In 2025, joint recovery teams conducted two more excavations at the site, recovering human remains that were returned to the DPAA laboratory for further study. There scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify Springsteadah.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Archie E. Garofalo from Cumberland County Vineland, New Jersey .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, September 24, 1965
Death details: Killed in Japan in a dawn fire that destroyed a two-story communication building that was engaged in classified work relaying messages between ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in water off Vietnam and land installations.
Source: Associated Press (1965)
Leroy Hicks, age 21, from Cumberland County Newport, New Jersey .
Spouse: Betty Hicks
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, September 18, 1965
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: UPI (1965)
Harry R. Denofio from New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: By November 24, 1950, the 25th Infantry Division had pushed far into North Korea and was just beginning to experience resistance from Chinese Communist Forces (CCF). Division commanders organized Task Force Dolvin (soon renamed Task Force Wilson) to attack along a road axis in the center of the Division sector and later to establish defensive positions north of the town of Ipsok. During the night of the 26th, the CCF attacked the Task Force and infiltrated its lines at several points, threatening but failing to seize the artillery. The Task Force began its withdrawal south the following day. Corporal Harry Robert De Nofio entered the U.S. Army from New Jersey and served with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On November 27, CPL De Nofio went missing in action as his company fought to take a CCF-held hill so that Task Force Wilson elements could pass through Ipsok. He was not seen or heard from again, and was never reported as a prisoner of war. Corporal De Nofio’s remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Corporal De Nofio is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Walter Waskewich from New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, May 6, 1945
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Mitchell A. Kamenski from New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, July 11, 1944
Death details: Finding of death
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker