Kyle Robert McKee, age 35, from Painesville, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Thursday, November 12, 2020
Death details: Among five soldiers killed in Egypt when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed from a mechanical malfunction.
Source: ABC News
David R. Baker, age 22, from Painesville, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 5th Marines Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California.
Date of death: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Death details: Died while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Roosevelt Junior Braggs, age 20, from Painesville, Ohio, Lake county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, June 5, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Marvin Theodore Helsius, age 23, from Lake County Painesville, Ohio .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Death details: Killed aboard the atomic submarine Thresher when the ship went missing 220 miles East of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Source: ussthresher.com, Associated Press (1963), oneternalpatrol.com
Edwin Pershing Anderson, age 25, from Lake County Painesville, Ohio .
Parents: Harvey C. Anderson
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, September 15, 1944
Death details: In September 1944, American forces launched Operation STALEMATE II, the invasion on Peleliu, an island in Palau. On Sept. 15, the 1st Marine Division came ashore under enemy fire. The following day, Marines secured the island’s airfield despite taking heavy casualties. The battle for Peleliu lasted another two months, as Marines were forced to clear heavily fortified pockets of Japanese resistance across the island. The 1st Marine Division, reinforced by the 81st Infantry Division, slowly advanced north under nearly constant mortar and artillery fire. The invasion of Peleliu had the highest casualty rate of all the amphibious Pacific Island invasions of World War II. Corporal Edwin Pershing Anderson joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Ohio and took part in Operation STALEMATE II. He was killed in action on Peleliu on September 15, 1944, when the tank he was riding in was caught in a large mine explosion. CPL Anderson’s remains could not be recovered from the tank at the time of his loss, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Anderson is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency