Leroy III Deronde, age 22, from Jersey City, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 3rd Brigade-Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.
Date of death: Sunday, May 27, 2012
Death details: Died when his unit was attacked by enemy forces. Spc. Kedith L. Jacobs was also killed.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Marcos Gorra, age 22, from North Bergen, New Jersey.
Parents: Gricel Gorra and Marcos.
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: North Bergen High (2006).
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Bridgade, 82nd Airborn Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Enlisted August 2006.
Date of death: Sunday, February 21, 2010
Death details: Died at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan of wounds from a training exercise.
Source: Department of Defense, Hudson Reporter, New York Daily News., Military Times
Miguel Angel Marcial III, age 19, from Secaucus, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: H&S Co, 1St Bn, 2D Mar, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Date of death: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Death details: Al Asad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, New Jersey Run for the Fallen
Edward Karolasz, age 25, from Kearny, New Jersey.
Parents: Edward and Krystyna Karolasz
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Kearny High (1999)
Military history: Co B, 1St Bn, 187Th Inf (Tf Band Of Brothers) Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Saturday, November 19, 2005
Death details: Killed by a roadside bomb near Bayji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, The Star-Ledger, Military Times
Marlon Phillip Jackson, age 25, from Jersey City, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A 94Th Engineer Battalion, Apo Ae 09173
Date of death: Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Manuel A. Cox from Union City, New Jersey.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, December 4, 1983
Death details: Among eight Marines killed and two wounded by artillery fire in Beirut
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, New Jersey Run for the Fallen
Douglas Lee O’neill from Bayonne, New Jersey.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: April 3, 1972
Death details: On April 3, 1972, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-16330, call sign “Cavalier 70”) with a crew of four departed Marble Mountain, Da Nang, South Vietnam, on a combat support mission to Quang Tri City, South Vietnam. During the flight, the pilot told a Hue/Phu Bai Ground Control Approach (GCA) controller that he was lost, but he believed that the helicopter was near Quang Tri. Following the transmission, the GCA controller could not locate the helicopter on the radar, and reported the helicopter missing in the vicinity of (GC) YD 330 530. When the helicopter failed to appear at any of the air bases in South Vietnam, an aerial search was initiated but found no sign of the missing aircraft or crew.
Warrant Officer 1 Douglas Lee O’Neill, who joined the U.S. Army from New Jersey, served with the Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 37th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade. He was the pilot of “Cavalier 70” when it disappeared on April 3, 1972, and his remains were not recovered. After the incident, the Army promoted WO1 to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3). Today, Chief Warrant Officer 3 O’Neill is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Jon Christopher Jacobson, age 22, from Bayonne, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, October 7, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Kenneth John Koch, age 21, from Jersey City, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 30th Maine
Date of death: Saturday, October 3, 1970
Death details: Hostile, died of wounds in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Evansville Courier & Press
John William Kisielewski, age 21, from Jersey City, New Jersey, Hudson county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 77th Ohio
Date of death: Saturday, August 8, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, illness in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives