Lawrence Scott Miller, age 18, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Robert L. Miller
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Graduated high school in Austin, Texas.
Date of death: Wednesday, March 18, 1970
Death details: Killed in action at an outpost on the Cambodian border
Source: National Archives, Biloxi Sun Herald (1970)
Danny Ray Allen, age 27, from Gulfport, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Henry Allen
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Charles Henry Wright, age 19, from Gulfport, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Henry E. Wright
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Seventh Air Calvary
Date of death: Tuesday, February 3, 1970
Cemetery: Evergreen Gardens
Source: National Archives, Sun Herald (1970)
Leo Carl Jr. Casey, age 19, from Gulfport, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Parents: Leo C. Casey Sr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, January 8, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Louis Douglas Richardson, age 19, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Company C, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
Date of death: Wednesday, November 17, 1965
Cemetery: Mobile National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Hunter Hudson Kimball Jr. from Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, July 16, 1950
Death details: On the evening of July 15, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 19th Infantry Regiment held defensive positions along the south bank of the Kum River. As dusk approached, North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) tanks appeared on the opposite shore and began firing on the U.S. positions. Although U.S. troops repulsed the attacks that evening, the next morning the NKPA crossed the river and launched a major attack against the 19th Regiment. As the regiment began withdrawing south to Taejon, the North Koreans pushed deep into their defensive lines and set up a roadblock en route to Taejon. When retreating American convoys could not break through the roadblock, soldiers were forced to leave the road and attempt to make their way in small groups across the countryside. Of the 900 soldiers in the 19th Infantry when the Battle of Kum River started, only 434 made it to friendly lines. First Lieutenant Hunter Hudson Kimball Jr. entered the U.S. Army from Mississippi and served with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was serving as a liaison officer with his unit when he was wounded on July 16, 1950, during the Battle of Kum River, while attempting to withdraw around an enemy roadblock outside Taejon. Following the war, a soldier reported he last saw 1LT Kimball badly wounded and taking cover from the enemy in a rice paddy near a roadblock. This was the last known sighting of First Lieutenant Kimball. He was never reported as a prisoner of war and remains unaccounted for. Today, First Lieutenant Kimball is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John Oliver Jr. Tremmel, age 18, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 21, 1943
Death details: From November 20 through 23, 1943, the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy conducted a large-scale amphibious assault on the Japanese-held atoll of Tarawa as part of Operation Galvanic, the Allied capture of the Gilbert Islands. Located 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, Tarawa was a crucial stepping stone in the planned U.S. offensive across the central Pacific toward Japan. The Japanese garrison on Tarawa’s main island of Betio was well-entrenched with hundreds of bunkers and gun positions behind formidable beach obstacles. The first wave of Marines approaching the shore encountered lower-than-expected tides, forcing them to leave their landing craft on the reef and wade the hundreds of yards to the beach under intense enemy fire. The heaviest number of U.S. casualties were suffered during this phase of the landing. Eventually, rising tides allowed U.S. warships to maneuver closer to shore and support the troops with effective naval gunfire. More Marines landed on the second day, launching attacks inland from the beaches and seizing the Japanese airfield on the island. However, the enemy launched vicious counterattacks and two more days of intense fighting were needed to secure Betio. The last enemy strongpoints were taken on the morning of November 23. The fighting on Betio cost the Marines nearly 3,000 casualties but enabled U.S. forces to press further across the Pacific and yielded valuable tactical lessons that reduced U.S. losses in future amphibious landings. Private John Oliver Tremmel Jr. joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Louisiana and was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which took part in the Battle of Tarawa. On November 21, 1943, he was killed in action on Betio and was buried in Cemetery #11, but after the war his remains were not located and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Private Tremmel is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Andrew J. Ladner from Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, November 30, 1942
Death details: On July 9, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private Andrew Joseph Ladner, missing from World War II. Private Ladner entered the U.S. Army from Mississippi and served in an Anti-tank Company, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. In late 1942, American and Australian troops were engaged with Japanese troops in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea for control of the north-coast port of Buna. Private Ladner’s unit was posted to the extreme left of the Allied line, near the Soputa-Sanananda Track. On November 30, 1942, Private Ladner was killed during fighting in this area, but the exact circumstances of his loss are unknown. Unit records indicated that Private Ladner was buried approximately four and a half miles north of Soputa; however, after the war, U.S. personnel were unable to locate his remains. On November 3, 2016, a set of unknown remains was exhumed from the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial and accessioned to a DPAA Laboratory for possible identification. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established the remains as those of Private Ladner.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Eurise A. Seymour, age 20, from Biloxi, Mississippi, Harrison county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, June 11, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Staff Sergeant Eurise A. Seymour joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Mississippi and was a member of the 17th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of dysentery on June 11, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Staff Sergeant Seymour is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Cecil Roy Ruddock, age 22, from Harrison County Pass Christian, Mississippi .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives