Walter Lee Redding, age 21, from Lake Wales, Florida, Polk county.
Parents: John D. Redding
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, August 11, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
George Carey Manring, age 21, from Polk County Lake Wales, Florida .
Parents: W. H. Manring
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Wednesday, December 6, 1950
Death details: On March 17, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Master Sgt. George Carey Manring, missing from World War II. Manring entered the U.S. Army from Florida and served with Battery B, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 6, 1950, in the vicinity of Hagaru-ri, North Korea, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The U.S. Army did not receive any information before or after the war to indicate that he was held as a POW and, absent evidence of Manring’s continued survival, issued him a presumptive finding of death of Dec. 31, 1953. In July 2018 the North Korean government turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of U.S. service members killed during the Korean War. Those remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of these remains and Manring. Manring 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, Associated Press (1951)