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Anthony George Jr. Kubelus, age 19, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: Anthony G. Kubelus Sr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, August 10, 1970
Death details: Hostile, died in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Franklin News Herald (1970)
Thomas Michael Wharton, age 21, from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: Mancie and Alice Powers
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, June 18, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam two months before his scheduled return.
Source: National Archives, Scranton Time Tribune (1970)
Michael Anthony Vancosky, age 19, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: West Scranton High (1968)
Date of death: Monday, May 4, 1970
Death details: Killed by an explosive device in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Scranton Tribune (1970)
Robert Albert Wall, age 20, from Jessup, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: Albert J. Wall
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, April 18, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam.
Cemetery: Holy Ghost in Jessup
Source: National Archives, Scranton Tribune (1970)
Carl John Helring, age 23, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: John J. Helring
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 3, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, died in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Lothar Gustav T. Terla, age 29, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 9, 1970
Death details: On March 9, 1970, an F-4E Phantom II (tail number 67-0282, call sign “Gunfighter 64”) with a crew of two took off from Da Nang Airbase to take part in a strike mission over Laos. The aircraft was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire as it passed over the target and crashed. Because of the darkness, no parachutes were witnessed. The Phantom’s crash site was eventually located, but no sign of survivors from the aircraft’s crew could be found. Captain Lothar Gustav Thomas Terla, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Pennsylvania, was a member of the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron, and was aircraft commander aboard the Phantom when it went missing. He was lost with the aircraft and he remains unaccounted for. Today, Captain Terla is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Walter Thomas Smith from Taylor, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, February 28, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, died in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives
Joseph Paul Honan, age 20, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: Howard Honan and preceded in death by mother
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: South Scranton Catholic High
Military history: Medical detachment of Company B, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division
Date of death: Tuesday, February 17, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam.
Cemetery: Saint Mary’s Church
Source: National Archives, Scranton Times Triubune (1970)
Edward Joseph Kulikowski, age 19, from Simpson, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Parents: Stanley F. Kulikowski
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, February 10, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
Paul Walter Gryzwach, age 28, from Mayfield, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Associated Press (1961)