Richard Kevin Parker, age 26, from Phillips, Maine, Franklin county.
Parents: Flagg and Scott Hood
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery A, 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery, Augusta, Me
Date of death: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Scania, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Bruce L. Howard, age 21, from Franklin County Strong, Maine .
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.
Cemetery: Mount Abram in Salem, Maine
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, findatrave.com
Rodney George Johndro, age 25, from Farmington, Maine, Franklin county.
Parents: Alice and George Johndro
Spouse: Leslie Sargent Johndro
Children: Veronica and Rhonda
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Farmington High graduate
Date of death: Thursday, August 6, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam from an explosion
Source: National Archives, Portland Press Herald (1970)
Dale Ryan Buxton, age 18, from Rangeley, Maine, Franklin county.
Parents: Ella Wilbur
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Rangeley High
Date of death: Saturday, August 1, 1970
Death details: Hostile; died in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Portland Press Herald (1970)
Neil Brooks Taylor, age 25, from Rangeley, Maine, Franklin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, September 14, 1965
Death details: On February 4, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Junior Grade Neil Brooks Taylor, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Taylor entered the U.S. Navy from Maine and was a member of Attack Squadron 192, Carrier Air Wing 19. On September 14, 1965, he piloted an A-4C Skyhawk (bureau number unknown) that took off from the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) on a bombing mission over South Vietnam. While over the target area, he failed to recover from a steep bombing run and crashed in Bac Lieu Province. LTJG Taylor died in the crash but his remains were not recovered at the time of his loss. In 2013, a joint search team investigated the crash site and recovered remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of LTJG Taylor.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Frank E. Pelkey from Farmington, Maine, Franklin county.
Parents: Paul O. Cry (foster parent)
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Edward Little High graduate in Auburn, Maine
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962), Lewiston Daily Sun (1962)