Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Otis Levance Moses, age 23, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI
Devon L. Sundar, age 23, from Fairfield County Stamford, Connecticut .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Hartford Courant (1983)
Benjamin C. Berndt, age 24, from Norwalk, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Thursday, December 16, 1982
Death details: Among 9 crew members killed when their B-52 bomber crashed in a pasture near Mather Air Force Base, California.
Cemetery: Saint John’s in Norwalk
Source: Charlotte News (1983), Lead Daily Call (1983), Lincoln Star (1982), findagrave.com
Randall A. Carlson, age 35, from Trumbull, Connecticut.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Saturday, September 25, 1982. He was one of four U.N. officers killed when their jeep struck a mine on the outskirts of the war-torn Lebanese capital.
Cemetery: United State Military Academy Post, West Point
Source: White House Commission on Rememberance, findagrave.com, UPI
Frederick M. III Rader, age 24, from Westport, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Parents: Fred M. Rader Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bearden High (1964, University of Tennessee (1968)
Date of death: Friday, November 27, 1970
Death details: Died while missing, South Vietnam. He was one of six crewmen aboard a C123 cargo plane that crashed.
Source: National Archives, Knoxville New Sentinel (1970)
John Thomas Orrico, age 22, from Ridgefield, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, November 2, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
Richard Michael Hope from Danbury, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, October 5, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Roy Edward Harris, age 21, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Parents: Essie Thomas
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Central High (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, July 26, 1970
Death details: Died in a hospital in Japan from burns received when a plane he was aboard was shot down over Vietnam on July 17, 1970.
Source: National Archives
Richard Glenn Repole, age 22, from Danbury, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Parents: Frank R. Repoe
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, July 8, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
William Martin Dunning, age 24, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Parents: Florence Dunning
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, June 22, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Asbury Park Press (1970)