John Thomas Self, age 29, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, Pontotoc county.
Parents: Jill Self
Service era: Iraq
Schools: South Pontotoc High (1998)
Military history: 314Th Security Forces Squadron, Little Rock Afb, Arkansas
Date of death: Monday, May 14, 2007
Death details: Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Clifton Blake Mounce, age 22, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, Pontotoc county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: K Co, 3D Bn, 10Th Mar, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Date of death: Thursday, July 14, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Trebil, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Marc Lucas Tucker, age 24, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, Pontotoc county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 9Th Esb (-), (Clb-2, 2D Fssg Fwd), 3D Fssg, Okinawa, Japan
Date of death: Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Death details: Killed in a non-hostile vehicle accident on Alternate Supply Route Uranium, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, U.S., Navy, Military Times
Danny Keith Witt, age 21, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, Pontotoc county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, February 22, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Memphis Commercial Appeal (1970)
Amos Roy Hutchins, age 21, from Pontotoc County Pontotoc, Mississippi .
Parents: Roy L. Hutchins
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, August 6, 1950
Death details: In early August 1950, members of the U.S. Army’s 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, were defending a bulge in the Naktong River in South Korea as part of a defensive formation known as the Pusan Perimeter. The U.S., United Nations, and South Korean forces were attempting to protect the critical Pusan Harbor from the invading North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) while waiting for U.S. reinforcements to arrive. On August 6, the NKPA initiated a large-scale attack on the perimeter with intentions of capturing capture the town of Taegu, located around the center of the Allied lines. The bulge in the Naktong where the 34th Infantry was positioned was notoriously difficult to defend, and that night, an NKPA battalion slipped through a gap in the perimeter and took positions behind the regiment’s front. The regiment sent its 1st Battalion to repel the NKPA infiltrators, which it did, despite encountering stiff resistance and suffering numerous casualties. Corporal Amos Roy Hutchins, who joined the U.S. Army from Michigan, served with B Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was reported wounded and later missing during this action on August 6 near the Naktong River. He may have been a short term prisoner of war (POW), as his name was written on a blackboard with those of other prisoners in a schoolhouse in Seoul. He never reached a prison camp, and may have been one of the prisoners in a group massacred by guards prior to reaching North Korea. His remains have not been recovered. Today, Corporal Hutchins 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, Associated Press (1950)
Cecil J. Stegall from Pontotoc County Pontotoc, Mississippi .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, May 22, 1944
Death details: Died, non-battle; died on a training flight out of Avon Park Army Air Field in Florida.
Source: National Archives, Tampa Bay Times (1944), Associated Press (1944)