Daniel Rocco Scherry, age 20, from Rocky River, Ohio, Cuyahoga county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Wpns Co, 1St Bn, 2D Mar, 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Date of death: Monday, April 16, 2007
Death details: Al Asad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, legacy.com
Jay Steven Aston age 22, from Rocky River, Ohio, Cuyahoga county. Their last known residence was in Rocky River.
Service era: Vietnam
Parent: Dewey P. Aston
Date of death: Sunday, July 18, 1971
Death details: On July 18, 1971, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-15671) with two crew members carried out an extraction mission to pick up four friendly personnel in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. After the helicopter picked up the personnel and began to take off, it came under intense enemy ground fire, rolled to the right, and crashed into trees in the vicinity of (GC) YC 697 557. After the crash, the survivors were extracted, but the copilot and a medic picked up from the landing zone determined that the pilot was dead and that it would be impossible to remove his body from the wreckage.
Warrant Officer First Class Jay Steven Aston, who entered the U.S. Army from Ohio, served with Company C, 101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, and was the pilot of this helicopter at the time of its crash. Special equipment would have been required to extract his body from the wreckage of the aircraft, and the enemy presence in the area precluded further attempts to recover his remains. He is still unaccounted for. Today, Warrant Officer First Class Aston is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency