Kent County Delaware

Mullen, Sean W.
Army Warrant officer

Sean W. Mullen, age 39, from Dover, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Date of death: Sunday, June 2, 2013
Death details: Died in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
Cemetery: Arlington National

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, findagrave.com

Griffin, Travis Lee
Air Force Staff sergeant

Travis Lee Griffin, age 28, from Dover, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: Iraq

Parents: Christine Herwick and stepfather Donald Herwick III

Military history: 377Th Security Forces Squadron, Kirtland Afb, Nm

Date of death: Thursday, April 3, 2008
Death details: Died of wound sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device near Baghdad

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

Ware, Carl Jerome Jr
Air Force Airman 1st class

Carl Jerome Jr Ware, age 22, from Smyrna, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: 15Th Security Forces Squadron, Hickam Afb, Hawaii

Date of death: Saturday, July 1, 2006
Death details: Camp Bucca, Iraq

Source: Department of Defense, New Jersey Run for the Fallen

Thompson, Jarrett Bennett
Army Sergeant

Jarrett Bennett Thompson, age 27, from Dover, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: 946Th Transporation Company, Lewes, Delaware

Date of death: Sunday, September 7, 2003
Death details: Died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C.. He was in a convoy August 30, 2003 when a civilian vehicle passed and hit Thompson’s truck.

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

Potts, Larry Fletcher
Marines Captain

Larry Fletcher Potts, age 25, from Smyrna, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: April 7, 1972
Death details: On April 7, 1972, an OV-10A Bronco (tail number 68-3820) with two crew members conducted a naval gunfire spotting mission in the vicinity of Quang Tri, South Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft was struck by an enemy surface-to-air missile (SAM) north of Dong Ha and crashed. Both crewmen ejected, and search and rescue forces sighted two parachutes. Searchers were only able to make radio contact with one crew member, but the other crew member was not contacted, and neither could be located following the incident.

Captain Larry Fletcher Potts, who entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Delaware, served with the 1st Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company and was the naval artillery observer aboard this Bronco at the time of its loss. Search and rescue forces were unable to contact him after the aircraft’s loss, and he remains unaccounted for. Today, Captain Potts is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Cemetery: Memorialized at Odd Fellows African American, Smyrna

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com

Dunne, James M.
Army Technician 5

James M. Dunne from Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Saturday, June 20, 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 and food and water supplied 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. Technician Fifth Grade James M. Dunne entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Connecticut and served with Headquarters Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of dysentery on June 20, 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, Technician Fifth Grade Dunne is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Fox, Walter L.
Private

Walter L. Fox, age 26, from Dover, Delaware, Kent county.

Service era: World War I

Date of death: Wednesday, October 9, 1918
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Odd Fellows in Camden, Delaware

Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com

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