Donald Fielding, age 23, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Wednesday, October 9, 1918
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: maa
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com
Fielding, Donald
Foster, Howard T.
Corporal
Howard T. Foster, age 22, from Dalton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, October 8, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Meuse Argonne American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Farrell, Joseph J.
Sergeant
Joseph J. Farrell, age 29, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, October 5, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Meuse Argonne American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com
Fiore, Frank G.
Private
Frank G. Fiore, age 24, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, August 17, 1918
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Oise Aisne American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Wancoski, Frank Paul
Army Private 1st class
Frank Paul Wancoski from Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Corporal Frank Paul Wancoski Jr., who joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces north of Chochiwon on July 12, and was forced to march to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of malnutrition on an unspecified date at the camp at Hanjang-ni, and was buried at the edge of the village. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Corporal Wancoski is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Christiana, John Burke
Army Private 1st class
John Burke Christiana, age 20, from Lackawanna County Olyphant, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Margaret Jones
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. Corporal John Burke Christiana, who joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania, was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by the CCF during the fighting withdrawal from Kunu-ri on November 11, 1950. He was marched to a holding point near the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley in North Korea, where he died of exhaustion and pneumonia in January 1951. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Corporal Christiana 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, Scranton Tribune (1954)