Jason Michael Lantieri, age 25, from Killingworth, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company E, 725Th Brigade Support Battalion, 4 Bct, Fort Richardson, Ak
Date of death: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Thomas G. Smith, age 25, from Middlesex County Middletown, Connecticut .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance
John Daniel Malcolm, age 20, from Middlefield, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Parents: Robert W. and Rosemary Dwyer Malcolm
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Date of death: Tuesday, August 25, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Hartford Courant (1970)
Raymond Frank Contino, age 23, from Haddam, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. John Mazur
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Hale-Ray High graduate
Date of death: Saturday, May 16, 1970
Death details: Hostile, Cambodia
Cemetery: East Haddam
Source: National Archives, Hartford Courant (1970)
Charles Brooks Pfaffmann, age 25, from Killingsworth, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, April 9, 1970
Death details: On April 9, 1970, a, E-2A Hawkeye (bureau number 151711, call sign “Sun King 012”) carrying a crew of five took off from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in the Gulf of Tonkin on an administrative mission. About one mile ahead of the ship, “Sun King 012” declared it had a fire in the aft compartment. The aircraft then impacted the water and broke apart two to three miles ahead of the Coral Sea. An extensive search of the wreckage recovered the remains of one of “Sun King 012’s” crew members; however, the other four men aboard the aircraft are still unaccounted for. Lieutenant Junior Grade Charles Brooks Pfaffmann, who joined the U.S. Navy from Connecticut, was a member of Carrier Early Warning Squadron 116. He was the pilot of “Sun King 012” when it went down, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains have not been recovered. Today, Lieutenant Junior Grade Pfaffmann is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
William Francis Brooks, age 18, from Hadlyme, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Parents: Cecil V. Brooks
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, March 17, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Daily Oklahoman (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Primo Charles Carnabuci, age 19, from Old Saybrook, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Parents: Mary C. Carnabuci
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On Nov. 1, 1950, Carnabuci’s unit, the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, occupied a defensive position along the Kuryong River, near Unsan, North Korea. Chinese units attacked the area and forced a withdrawal. Almost 600 men, including Carnabuci, were reported missing or killed in action following the battle. In 2000, a joint U.S-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a mass grave discovered earlier in Unsan County, south of the area known as “Camel’s Head.” The team recovered remains of at least five individuals as well as military clothing. Analysts from DPMO and JPAC developed case leads with information spanning more than 58 years. They evaluated the circumstances surrounding the soldier’s death and researched wartime documentation on the movements of U.S. and enemy forces on the battlefield. Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used dental comparisons and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA — which matched that of Carnabuci’s brother — in the identification.
Cemetery: Old Saybrook
Source: National Archives, Department of Defense, Hartford Courant
Harry G. Faulk, age 20, from Saybrook, Connecticut, Middlesex county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Thursday, July 25, 1918
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Cypress, Old Saybrook
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com