Patrick Francis Kutschbach, age 25, from Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Enduring Freedom
Military history: Company B, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Boeblingen, Germany
Date of death: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Death details: Hostile, died in Bagram, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Mark Joseph Kasecky, age 20, from Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: C Battery, 1st Battlion, 107th Field Artillery, Oil City, Pennsylvania
Date of death: Monday, May 17, 2004
Death details: Hostile, died in Al Karmah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Nicholas Allen Tomko, age 24, from Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: 307th Military Police Company 18th Mp Brigade, New Kensington, Pa 15068
Date of death: Sunday, November 9, 2003
Death details: Hostile, died in Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Kenneth James Patton from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: February 2, 1968
Death details: On February 2, 1968, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 66-16442) carrying three passengers and two crew members was making a ground radar controlled approach to Da Nang Air Base when the ground controller suddenly and unexpectedly lost radio and radar contact with the aircraft. The entire crew was lost along with the helicopter. Several months later in May 1968, the aircraft was discovered to have crashed in a heavily-wooded gully with dense underbrush. Some remains were recovered but could not be identified as any of the crew members. Subsequent efforts to locate the crew’s remains have been unsuccessful.
Specialist 5 Kenneth James Patton entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served in Troop B, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was the crew chief of the helicopter when it crashed on February 2, 1968, and his remains were not recovered. Following the incident, the Army promoted SP5 Patton to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Today, Staff Sergeant Patton is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Thomas P. Kelley, age 20, from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Thomas E. Kelley died in 1946 from injuries suffered in World War II
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, June 18, 1953
Death details: Killed in the crash of an Air Force C0124 Globemaster near Tokyo.
Source: United Press (1953), Pittsburgh Sun Gazette (1953)
Thomas Edward Kelley, age 40, from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .
Parents: Thomas Kelley and Mary McMahon Kelley
Spouse: Camella
Children: Son Air Force Sgt. Thomas E. Kelley was killed in 1953 in a transport plane crash.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, August 9, 1946
Death details: His wife in 1953: “Mr. Kelley was drafted when he was about 35. I had three small children – in 1942, I think. He was shipped over to fight in Africa and Italy. Trapped in a fox-hole for eight days, one of his lungs collapsed. He came back to the States and died in Aspinwall Hospital six months later.”
Source: Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph (1953)
Andrew Joseph Smith from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .
Parents: George Smith
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, March 1, 1942
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston when the ship was attacked traveling from Batavia to Java.
Source: National Arvhies, USSHouston.org, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1952)
Walter J. Fournier, age 26, from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Monday, September 23, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Suresnes American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com