Garrette, Robert Juinor
Army Corporal
Robert Juinor Garrette from Grifton, North Carolina, Lenoir county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 9, 1970
Source: National Archives
Garrette, Robert Juinor
Oham, Rocky Pearson
Army Specialist 4
Rocky Pearson Oham, age 19, from Kinston, North Carolina, Lenoir county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, May 8, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Cemetery: Pinelawn Memorial Park
Source: National Archives, Raleigh News and Observer (1970)
Ham, Woodrow Wilson Jr.
Army Staff sergeant
Woodrow Wilson Jr. Ham, age 26, from Lenoir County Kinston, North Carolina .
Spouse: Barbara Ham
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 4, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1966)
Whitfield, Charles Curtis
Army Private
Charles Curtis Whitfield, age 28, from Lenoir County Kinston, North Carolina .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 24, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1966)
McBynum, Jimmie Lloyd
Army Staff sergeant
Jimmie Lloyd McBynum, age 26, from Lenoir County Kinston, North Carolina .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, October 22, 1965
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Sutton, Alfred L.
Army Private 1st class
Alfred L. Sutton, age 28, from Lenoir County North Carolina.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 30, 1945
Death details: Private First Class Alfred L. Sutton entered the U.S. Army from North Carolina and served with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry Regiment. The 366th Infantry Regiment, attached to the racially segregated 92nd Infantry Division, was, in many respects, a unique organization because it contained all-African American officers, whereas the other regiments in the segregated division generally functioned under white leadership. In November of 1944, the 366th Infantry Regiment arrived at the Gothic Line in the northern Apennine Mountains in Italy, Germany’s last major line of defense against the Allied forces pushing north. On December 29, Company I, 366th Infantry Regiment, dispatched a raiding party of approximately 100 enlisted men and a few officers, which moved north of the Cinquale Canal, where they engaged enemy forces and captured one prisoner before returning the following morning. PFC Sutton was killed during this patrol near the Cinquale Canal in Montignoso, Italy. He has not been definitively associated with any remains recovered from the area and is still unaccounted-for. Today, Private First Class Sutton is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery in Impruneta, Italy.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Harrison, Gordon R.
Army Private 1st class
Gordon R. Harrison from North Carolina, Lenoir county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, July 18, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private Gordon R. Harrison entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from North Carolina and served with the 454th Ordnance Company in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of malaria and dysentery on July 18, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private Harrison is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency