James Jr. Johnson, age 23, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, November 20, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Pensacola News Journal (1970)
Russell Ralph Costello, age 44, from Warrington, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, September 4, 1970
Source: National Archives
James Michael Butler, age 23, from Pensacola beach, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, July 24, 1970
Source: National Archives
Ronald Eugene Underwood, age 18, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, June 20, 1970
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Fredrick Wayne Sheffield, age 22, from Cantonment, Florida, Escambia county.
Parents: H.C. Sheffield
Spouse: Sally Sheffield
Children: Laurel Ellen, 1 day.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Parsons College
Date of death: Wednesday, May 13, 1970
Death details: Died in a helicopter crash the same day his daughter was born.
Source: National Archives, Des Moines Register (1970)
Mance Brown, age 37, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Parents: Beulah Frison
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 3, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Richard Allison Dornellas, age 22, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Parents: George A. Dorneillas
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Pensacola High
Date of death: Tuesday, January 27, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam
Cemetery: Bayview Memorial Park
Source: National Archives
Irwin M. Hurst from Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, December 2, 1950
Death details: On the evening of November 27, 1950, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launched a massive attack against the U.S. and United Nations troops stationed in the Chosin Reservoir area in northeast North Korea, resulting in a seventeen-day conflict that became known as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. At the time of the initial CCF attack, members the U.S. Army’s 31st and 32nd Infantry Regiments were defending the area north of Sinhung-ni, on the east side of the reservoir. The defenders were overwhelmed by the numerically superior CCF, and on December 1, were forced to withdraw to friendly lines at Hagaru-ri. Chinese roadblocks from Sinhung-ni to Hagaru-ri along with the constant enemy fire from the surrounding high ground, made the withdrawal route extremely dangerous. Eventually, the column was broken into separate segments, which the CCF attacked individually. Many men were lost or captured during the moving battle, with survivors reaching friendly lines in Hagaru-ri on December 2 and 3.
Sergeant First Class Irwin Matthew Hurst entered the U.S. Army from Florida and was a member of the Heavy Mortar Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on December 2, at some point during the withdrawal to Hagaru-ri. Specific details regarding his loss are unknown, and his name was not reported on any shared prisoner of war lists. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant First Class Hurst is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Ithiel Ezell Whatley, age 19, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Wednesday, July 12, 1950
Death details: On September 7, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Ithiel Ezell Whatley, missing from the Korean War. Private First Class Whatley entered the U.S. Army from Florida and served in M Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. This unit was part of Task Force Smith, the first U.S. ground element to engage North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) troops during the conflict. On July 11, 1950, the 21st Infantry Regiment held defensive positions near the town of Chochi’won, South Korea. An attack by NKPA forces forced the under-strength regiment to withdraw to avoid being surrounded. PCF Whatley was reported missing in action on July 12th, but the exact circumstances of his loss are unknown. In October 1950, after the U.S. Army regained territory lost to the enemy, remains believed to be of U.S. service members were recovered from the area. Those that could not be identified with the tools available at the time were interred as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2019, DPAA personnel exhumed one set of these remains for further study. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established the remains as those of PFC Whatley.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John Charles Waldron, age 41, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Spouse: Adelaide Waldron
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, June 4, 1942
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker