Harry Raymond Swain IV, age 21, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: A Co, 1St Bn, (Blt 1/2, 24Th Meu), 2D Mar, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, Nc
Date of death: Monday, January 31, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Musayyib, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas Alva Walkup Jr., age 25, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 20Th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fl
Date of death: Sunday, November 23, 2003
Death details: Hostile, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Donald Kenn Springsteadah, age 33, from Millville, New Jersey, Cumberland county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 11, 1968
Death details:
On June 23, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Donald Kennebunk Springsteadah, missing from the Vietnam War.
Springsteadah entered the U.S. Air Force from New Jersey and served with Detachment 1, 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron. In 1968, he and 18 other men were assigned to Lima Site 85, a tactical air navigation radar site on a remote, 5,600-foot mountain peak known as Phou Pha Thi in Houaphan Province, Laos. In the early morning of March 11, North Vietnamese commandos attacked the site with grenades and mortars, causing the Americans to seek safety on a narrow ledge of the steep mountain. A few hours later, under the protective cover of A-1 Skyraider aircraft, U.S. helicopters were able to rescue eight of the men. Springsteadah and ten other Americans were killed in action and unable to be recovered. From 1994 to 2009, in cooperation with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.), joint teams led by DPAA’s predecessor Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) conducted multiple recovery operations, pursuing witness leads and recovering evidence and remains. In 2023, DPAA personnel and members from partner organizations discovered unexploded ordnance, incident-related materials, and possible osseus remains from the research site, leading to the identification of a missing American service member. In 2025, joint recovery teams conducted two more excavations at the site, recovering human remains that were returned to the DPAA laboratory for further study. There scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify Springsteadah.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency