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Fred Jackson Jewell, age 24, from Roanoke County Roanoke, Virginia .
Parents: John Riley Jewell
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, August 6, 1945
Death details: Killed aboard USS Bullhead SS-332 when it was sunk by air attack near the Lombok Strait.
Source: National Archives, On Eternal Patrol
Fred Jackson Jewell, age 24, from Roanoke County Roanoke, Virginia .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, August 6, 1945
Death details: Killed aboard USS Bullhead SS-332 when it was sunk by air attack near the Lombok Strait.
Source: On Eternal Patrol
Benjamin Lee Brown from Roanoke County Roanoke, Virginia .
Parents: George Lester and Nannie Brown
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Downs
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Roanoke Times (1991)
William Harding Newton , age 21, from Huntington County Roanoke, Virginia .
Parents: William S. Newton
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destroyer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Roanoke World News (1941)