Gregory Ashford, age 21, from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Parents: Thelma B. Ashford
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, August 25, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Associted Press (1971)
Daniel Gene Dorman, age 24, from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Glen H. Figi
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, July 11, 1971
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1971)
Joe Harold Morrison, age 27, from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Parents: Eddie Morrison
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, October 7, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
John Vinson Williams, age 32, from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, October 6, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
William Foy Settle, age 18, from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Parents: Foy Settle and Lorene Boyce
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Richamond High
Date of death: Thursday, July 16, 1970
Death details: Died in Japan from wounds sufered in combat in Vietnam on July 2, 1970.
Source: National Archives, Oakland Tribune (1970)
Jose Ybanez, age 28, from Contra Costa County Richmond, California .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 17, 1966
Death details: Died in Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Edward N Leonard, age 23, from Contra Costa County Richmond, California .
Parents: Edward L. Leonard and stepmother Eva
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 1st Air Cavalry Division
Date of death: Tuesday, January 25, 1966
Death details: He was en route to join a new offensive against the Viet Cong when the transport plane slammed into a hillside in Vietnam.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, UPI (1966), Newsday (1966)
William Robert Moore, age 20, from Contra Costa County Richmond, California .
Parents: William A. Moore
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, December 16, 1965
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Concord Transcript (1965)
Hoyle Trentun Riddle, age 38, from Contra Costa County Richmond, California .
Spouse: Ola Riddle. She learned about her husband’s death when an ex-POW told her: “We buried him.” He told her her husband wandered out into the snow from his POW camp mud hut. Apparently he was crazed from hunger, and froze to death.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, November 30, 1951
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. Sergeant First Class Hoyle Trenton Riddle, who joined the U.S. Army from California, served with Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from Kunu-ri to Sunchon. He was marched with other prisoners of war to the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley, North Korea, where he died late December 1950, from pneumonia. He was buried at Pukchin-Tarigol, but his remains have not been recovered. Sergeant First Class Riddle is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Edward Cozed Leneve from Richmond, California, Contra Costa county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, December 2, 1950
Death details: On the evening of November 27, 1950, a huge Chinese force launched an attack against the U.S. and United Nations (UN) troops stationed in the Chosin Reservoir area in north-east North Korea. The resulting seventeen-day conflict became known as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. After a fierce defense, U.S. and UN forces attempted to withdraw south from the Chosin Reservoir to the port of Hungnam. A single seventy-eight-mile roadway connecting the reservoir to Hungnam offered the only retreat route, and the withdrawing men faced significant enemy resistance as they traveled down it, attempting to avoid encirclement. After suffering heavy casualties, the U.S. and UN troops eventually broke through Chinese lines and reached Hungnam. Private First Class Edward Cozad Leneve, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from California, served with Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was killed in action on December 2, 1950, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir as his unit fought the CCF to relieve the Marines surrounded on Fox Hill, which overlooked the main evacuation route to Hamhung. Private First Class Leneve was buried on the northwestern slope of the hill; however, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Private First Class Leneve is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency