Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Patrick Elswood McDaniel, age 21, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: John L. McDaniel
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 30, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in Cambodia.
Source: National Archives, Scranton Tribune (1970)
Richard Jarrett II Sexton, age 26, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Spouse: Marsha (Sawlan) Sexton
Children: Kimberly Jarrett Sexton, 7 months
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 3rd Marine Division
Date of death: Sunday, February 15, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Morning Call (1970)
Anthony Richard Torcivia, age 40, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, November 1, 1968
Death details: Among 23 American sailors killed aboard the LST Westchester County when it was ripped open by an enemy mine as she swung at anchor in the My Tho River near Saigon.
Cemetery: Northampton Memorial Shrine
Source: National Archives, virtualwall.org
George Harry Deremer, age 22, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: George R. and Kathleen (Wismer) DeRemer
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Associated Press (1961), Allentown Morning Call (1961)
Robert F. Garrity, age 22, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: Joseph Garrity Sr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Cemetery: Saint Joseph’s New in Easton
Source: Associated Press (1961), Allentown Morning Call (1961)
Robert H. Hart, age 23, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: Charles H. Hart Jr.
Spouse: Kathleen (Kleckner)
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Cemetery: Northampton Memorial Shrine
Source: Associated Press (1961), Allentown Morning Call (1961)
Richard Watson Jones, age 22, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: Morris J. and Clorinda Jones
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Associated Press (1961), Allentown Morning Call (1961)
Paul L. Schwar, age 23, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: Leo M. and Mary (Volker) Schwar
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Associated Press (1961), findagrave.com, Allentown Morning Call (1961)
Vincenzo Dominick Romeo, age 21, from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Sergeant Vincenzo Dominick Romeo joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and was a member of Company K of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, Company K was near Unsan with the 3rd Battalion when the 8th Cavalry Regiment was cut off from its allies during a CCF surprise attack and despite fierce resistance, forced to withdraw. It was during this fighting that SGT Romeo was captured. He was eventually marched northwest to the temporary prisoner of war (POW) holding site at Sambakkol. At war’s end, returning POWs who survived their captivity and were 8th Cavalry Regiment comrades of SGT Romeo reported that he died as a result of malnutrition and dysentery in late December 1950. They buried him in Sambakkol, though his remains have not been recovered. Today, Sergeant Romeo is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Danville Morning News (1953)
Samuel Joseph Vulcano from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Parents: Frank Vulcano
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency