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Patricia L. Horne, age 20, from Greenwood, Mississippi, Leflore county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Parent: Betty
School: Greenwood High
Military history: 96th Aviation Support Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Date of death: Friday, August 24, 2012
Death details: Died in Bagram, Afghanistan from a gunshot wound.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, The Greenwood Commonwealth
George Stanciel, age 40, from Greenwood, Mississippi, Leflore county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 370th Engineer Company, 54Th Battalion, 20Th Brigade, Bamberg, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Fob Gary Owen, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Calvin Buster Childress, age 33, from Leflore County Greenwood, Mississippi .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, October 19, 1971
Source: National Archives, Sun Herald (2002)
Dennis Alexander, age 33, from Leflore County Mississippi.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 1, 1950
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. Sergeant Dennis Alexander, who joined the U.S. Army from Mississippi, served with Battery C, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on December 1, 1950, as his artillery unit supported the 38th Infantry Regiment during its withdrawal from Kunu-ri to Sunchon. He was marched northward to the Pukchin Tarigol Valley in North Korea, and appears to have died before this group went on to Camp 5 at Pyoktong on the Yalu River. No burial information is available and his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody. Sergeant Alexander 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