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Rayvon Battle Jr., age 25, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 38th Engineer Company, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
Date of death: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Death details: Died in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Tara J. Smith, age 33, from Nashville, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Spouse: Deron Smith
Children: Sons
Military history: 50th Signal Battalion, 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Date of death: Saturday, August 8, 2009
Death details: Died in Bagram, Afghanistan from a non-combat related incident at Camp Phoenix, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Eric Reid Vick, age 25, from Spring Hope, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, Special Troops Battalion, 2Nd Brigade Combat Team, (1 Cd), Fort Drum, Ny
Date of death: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Dwayne Collier Battle, age 21, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI
Lorenzo Fox, age 23, from Battleboro, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, August 31, 1970
Source: National Archives
James Washington Matthews, age 22, from Nashville, North Carolina, Nash county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, August 15, 1970
Source: National Archives
Morton C. Davis, age 18, from Nash County Nasvhille, North Carolina .
Parents: Hattie A. Davis
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 1, 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. Private First Class Morton C. Davis, who joined the U.S. Army from North Carolina, was a member of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action during the fighting withdrawal from Kunu-ri. Private First Class Davis was never reported as a prisoner of war. His remains have not been recovered, and he was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Private First Class Davis is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Raleigh News and Observer (1954)
Nebraska Dunston from Nash County Spring Hope, North Carolina .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Fort Worth Star Telegram (1941)