Lee county Mississippi

Wooley, Jacob
Marines Corporal

Jacob Wooley, age 23, from Guntown, Mississippi, Lee county.

Service era: Afghanistan

Parents: Linda and Jim Wooley

School: Alcorn Central High, Northeast Mississippi Junior College

Date of death: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Death details: Shot and killed by a fellow Marine inside the barracks of Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. Lance Cpl. Sara Castromata was also killed. The shooter killed himself.

Cemetery: Dogwood Cemetery in Corinth

Source: KTVU, Magnolia Funeral Home

Baldwyn, Stephen Phillip
Marines Private 1st class

Stephen Phillip Baldwyn, age 19, from Saltillo, Mississippi, Lee county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Wpns Co, 3D Bn, 8Th Mar, (Rct-8), 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

Date of death: Monday, May 9, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

McCarthy, Edward Polk III
Army Specialist 4

Edward Polk III McCarthy, age 23, from Baldwyn, Mississippi, Lee county.

Spouse: Brenda S. McCarthy

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, September 29, 1970
Death details: Killed in action

Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)

Salters, Lee Earnest
Army Specialist 4

Lee Earnest Salters, age 20, from Belden, Mississippi, Lee county.

Parents: Leon Salters

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, August 26, 1970
Death details: Killed in action

Source: National Archives, Greenwood Commonwealth (1970)

Clark, Dennis Eugene
Marines Lance corporal

Dennis Eugene Clark, age 18, from Tupelo, Mississippi, Lee county.

Spouse: Married

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Death details: Killed in action

Source: National Archives, Hattiesburg American (1970)

Douglas, Leslie Forrest Jr.
Army 1st lieutenant

Leslie Forrest Jr. Douglas, age 24, from Verona, Mississippi, Lee county.

Spouse: Linda

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, June 30, 1970
Death details: Army Spc. 5 John L. Burgess, of Sutton Bay, Mich., was the crew chief of a UH-1H Iroquois helicopter that crashed in Binh Phuoc Province, South Vietnam. Also, killed in the crash were 1st Lt. Leslie F. Douglas Jr., of Verona, Miss.; lst Lt. Richard Dyer, of Central Falls, R.I.; and Sgt. 1st Class Juan Colon-Diaz, of Comerio, Puerto Rico. Another crew member, Pfc. John Goosman, survived the crash and was rescued. Remains representing Dyer, Colon-Diaz, and Burgess, were buried as a group in a single casket, on July 2, 2013 at Arlington National Cemetery. On June 30, 1970, while on a command and control mission, the helicopter was struck by enemy fire, causing it to crash. Shortly thereafter, friendly forces recovered remains of Douglas, Colon-Diaz, and Dyer. The three men were individually identified and buried with full military honors. At that time, no remains were attributed to Burgess.From 1992 to 2012, more than a dozen joint U.S./Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) teams investigated the case, in Binh Phuoc Province, recovering human remains, personal effects, military equipment, and aircraft wreckage associated with this loss.Burgess was accounted for using forensic and circumstantial evidence.
Cemetery: Arlington National

Source: National Archives, Department of Defense, Associated Press (1970)

Hand, Larry Edward
Army Staff sergeant

Larry Edward Hand, age 22, from Saltillo, Mississippi, Lee county.

Parents: Mary E. Fisher

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, February 20, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam

Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)

Worthey, Owen Wayne
Army Private 1st class

Owen Wayne Worthey, age 22, from Lee County Nettleton, Mississippi .

Parents: William W. Worthey

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, May 6, 1966
Death details: Killed in Vietnam

Source: National Archives, Vicksburg Post (1966)

Rial, Glynn M.
Army Private

Glynn M. Rial from Lee County Mississippi.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On May 21, 1942, Japanese guards conscripted (a forced enlistment) American prisoners of war (POWs) from the Camp O’Donnell POW camp for a road construction detail along Tayabas Road, near Calauag, Philippines. During the journey to their work site, the group stopped at the Pasay Elementary School, which was being used as a POW holding camp, to replace several unfit Camp O’Donnell prisoners on the project with newly-captured POWs from Corregidor. The number of prisoners exchanged is unknown, but the work detail arrived at the Tayabas Road site on May 29. Nearly three hundred POWs began road construction along the Basiad River to connect Route 1G (Old Tayabas Road) with a highway running north from Legazpi on the Bicol Peninsula. As work progressed, many POWs fell ill to malnutrition and disease. Over the next two months, Japanese guards sent the sickest prisoners 175 miles north to Bilibid Prison in Manila, though the number and identity of the POWs sent to Bilibid are unknown. The Japanese guards closed the project by late July when most prisoners became too sick or weak to work. Any surviving POWs were sent to Bilibid, while those who died while working on the project were buried either at the work site, at Bilibid Prison, or at other locations along the way. Private Glynn M. Rial entered the U.S. Army from Mississippi and served in the 409th Signal Corps (Aviation). Private Rial escaped from the Tayabas Road construction detail in July, 1944. He died at some point after that, but the exact circumstances of his loss are unknown. He has not been associated with any remains recovered from the area after the war and is still unaccounted-for. Today, Private Rial is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

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