Timothy J. Dunnigan, age 21, from Mercer County Princeton, West Virginia .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance
Grat Geleane Myers, age 20, from Mercer County Princeton, West Virginia .
Parents: Mabel Myers
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, August 24, 1965
Death details: Killed when the transport plane he was aboard crashed in Hong Kong.
Source: National Archives, Ledger Enquirier (1965)
William D. Jr. Ward from Princeton, West Virginia, Mercer county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, March 28, 1953
Death details:
On the night of March 26, 1953, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked three outposts on the Main Line of Resistance (near today’s Demilitarized Zone) manned by the 5th Marine Regiment. The outposts, named Reno, Carson and Vegas, were referred to as the Nevada Cities Hill Complex. After hours of vicious fighting, the badly outnumbered Marines at the Reno and Vegas outposts were overrun by the Communists; however, the Marines at the Carson outpost managed to fend off the attackers.
Private First Class William Dallas Ward Jr., who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from West Virginia, served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was killed in action on March 28, 1953, during the fighting at Outpost Vegas. Since the outpost was overrun by the enemy and was not retaken by friendly forces at the time, his body could not be recovered. He has not been identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire, and he remains unaccounted for.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Donald Lee Belcher, age 19, from Mercer County Princeton, West Virginia .
Parents: Aaron Lee Beicher
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, June 14, 1944
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Golet when it was destroyed by Japanese forces.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, oneternalpatrol.com, Pawhuska Journal Capital (1944)
Bernard Ramon Wimmer, age 28, from Princeton, West Virginia, Mercer county.
Parents: Sidney Harrison Wimmer
Service era: World War II
Military history: Uss Oklahoma; United States Navy
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma, Accounted for September 28, 2020.
Source: National Archives Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Bernard Ramon Wimmer, age 28, from Mercer County Princeton, West Virginia .
Parents: Sidney Harrison Wimmer
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma, Accounted for September 28, 2020.
Cemetery: Accounted For
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Hawaii Triune Herald (1966), LaCrosse Tribune (1948)
Leftwich Erastus Jr. Carbaugh from Mercer County Princeton, West Virginia .
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)