William Ruggerio, age 23, from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
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, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1942)
Walter Charles Foley, age 18, from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Parents: Roger Foley
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Samuel J. Ziskind from Kings County New York.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Unaccounted For
Steve Anthony Ziembicki from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Parents: Stanislaus Ziembicki
Service era: World War II
Military history: Uss Arizona; United States Navy
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Cemetery: Unaccounted For
Source: National Archives
Joseph Gustave Little, age 18, from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Parents: Joseph Patrick Little
Service era: World War II
Schools: Holy Cross in Flatbush graduate, Bishop Loughlin High
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destroyer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), The Tablet (1941)
Benjamin Ghetzler, age 34, from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Saint Louis Post Dispatch (1941)
John Graham Jr. Lavelle, age 24, from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On June 23, 2011, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class John Graham Lavelle Jr., missing from the Korean War. Private First Class Lavelle entered the U.S. Army from New York and served in Company B, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by the enemy on December 1, 1950, as his unit was overrun by enemy forces near Kunu-ri, North Korea. PFC Lavelle was interned at POW Camp 5 at Pyoktong, Noth Korea, where he died from malnutrition in1951, but his remains were not returned to the U.S. at that time. In 1954, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of thousands of U.S. service members during Operation Glory, many of which could not be identified at the time; however, in 2011, analysts used modern forensic techniques and identified PFC Lavelle from among these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Daniel William Gerrity from Kings County Brooklyn, New York .
Parents: Nan C. Gerrity
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Private First Class Daniel William Gerrity, who joined the U.S. Army from New York, served with the Headquarters Battalion, Division Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on November 30, 1950, as the 2nd Infantry Division was withdrawing to Sunchon. He was marched to Camp 5 at Pyoktong on the Yalu River, where he died of malnutrition on an unspecified date in May or June, 1951. Although he was buried near the camp, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Private First Class Gerrity is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, UPI (1953)