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Scott Gene Dimond, age 39, from Franklin, New Hampshire, Merrimack county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 3D Battalion, 172D Infantry, Manchester, Nh
Date of death: Monday, October 13, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Lashkar Gah Prov Kandahar, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Juctin Richard Pat Mcdaniel, age 19, from Andover, New Hampshire, Merrimack county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 536Th Maintenance Company, 524Th Cssb, 45Th Sb, 8 Tsc, Schofield Barracks, Hi
Date of death: Monday, December 17, 2007
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Timothy Mark Gibson, age 23, from Merrimack, New Hampshire, Merrimack county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Co, 1St Bn, 3D Mar, 31St Meu, 1St Mar Div, Kaneohe Bay, Hi
Date of death: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Death details: Korean Village, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Gary S. Dillon, age 29, from New Hampshire, Merrimack county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, October 8, 1990
Death details: Killed in a training exercise when two helicopters collided over the Arabian Sea
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, Associated Press (1990)
Edward Joseph Jr. Morse, age 19, from Merrimack County Loudon, New Hampshire .
Parents: Edward J. Morse
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 30, 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 Edward Joseph Morse Jr., who joined the U.S. Army from New Hampshire, served with the Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from Kunu-ri to Sunchon. No one saw him fall, and his body was not recovered after the battle. There is no evidence that he was ever held as a prisoner of war, and his remains were not returned to U.S. custody after the war. Sergeant Morse is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Concord Monitor (1951)
George W. Hall from New Hampshire, Merrimack county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, December 1, 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 George W. Hall joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from New Hampshire and was a member of the 20th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of dysentery on December 1, 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 Hall is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Edward Blanchard Cloues, age 23, from Merrimack County Warner, New Hampshire .
Parents: Hattie B. and Alfred Cloues
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: National Archives, Barre Daily Times (1941)
Bruce Roosevelt Edmunds from Merrimack County Concord, New Hampshire .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency