Scott Michael Vincent, age 21, from Bokoshe, Oklahoma, Le Flore county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 2D Lar Bn, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, Nc (Attached To 1St Mar Div)
Date of death: Friday, April 30, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Doyle Wayne Jr Bollinger, age 21, from Poteau, Oklahoma, Le Flore county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Nmcb One Three Three, Gulfport, Mississippi
Date of death: Friday, June 6, 2003
Death details: Died in Al Kut, Kuwait when he was handling a piece of unexploded ordnance accidentally detonated where he was working. The sailor was killed instantly
Source: Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Military Times
Richard Eugene Dodd, age 29, from Wister, Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Parents: Arlie Dodd
Spouse: Lucille M.
Children: Richard E. Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, December 31, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Tacoma News Tribune, Associated Press (1970)
Sherman Felton Armstrong, age 21, from Poteau, Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Spouse: Barbara K. Armstrong
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, August 14, 1970
Source: National Archives, Daily Oklahoman (1970)
Billy V. Rodgers, age 19, from Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division
Date of death: Saturday, December 2, 1950
Death details: Reported missing in action on December 2, 1950 when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Accounted for April 9, 2020
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, Department of Defense
Bob Ray Mankin, age 27, from Howe, Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Parents: Edgar A. Mankin
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Sergeant Bob Ray Mankin joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, Company C was near Unsan with the 1st Battalion when the unit was hit by a severe enemy attack and forced to withdraw. It was during this fighting withdrawal that SGT Mankin went missing, although the specific details surrounding his loss are unknown. He was never reported as a prisoner of war, and his remains were not identified among those returned to the U.S. following the war. Today, Sergeant Mankin is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Miami New Reocrd (1954)
Edgar Warren Hardy from Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: September 30, 1951
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.
Master Sergeant Edgar Warren Hardy, who joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, as his unit engaged the North Korean People’s Army near Chochiwon, South Korea. He was forced to march north to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He reached the prison camp at An-dong in the spring of 1951, and died of malnutrition and dysentery on September 30, 1951. He was buried in the camp cemetery; however, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the cease fire. Today, Master Sergeant Hardy is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Vernon R. Treat from Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, September 13, 1944
Death details: Finding of death
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Robert Ramsey from LeFlore County Muse, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, October 22, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Roger P. Folsom, age 20, from Heavener, Oklahoma, LeFlore county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, October 15, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com