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McHugh, Scott Ronald Navy Petty officer 2nd class

Scott Ronald McHugh, age 33, from Boca Raton, Florida, Palm Beach county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Fourteen, Jacksonville, Florida

Date of death: Sunday, May 2, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

Unger, Don Lee
Air Force Captain

Don Lee Unger, age 26, from Lake Worth, Florida, Palm Beach county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, May 3, 1972
Death details: On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Don Lee Unger, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Unger joined the U.S. Air Force from Florida and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the mission, and Capt Unger was killed in the crash. Once fighting had stopped in the area, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of the crew; however, Capt Unger’s remains could not be individually identified until 1974.
Cemetery: Lake Worth Memory Grades, Florida

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.comĀ 

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