Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Peter Joseph Navarro, age 20, from Wildwood, Missouri, St Louis county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 2D Battalion, 70Th Armor, 3D Bct (Tf Baghdad), Fort Riley, Ks
Date of death: Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Taji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jacob Rudeloff Fleischer, age 25, from St Louis, Missouri, St Louis (City) county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Company, 2D Battalion, 5Th Infantry, 25Th Id, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Date of death: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Deh Rawood, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
William T. Costen, age 27, from St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis county.
Service era: Gulf War
Parents: William S. Costen and Barbara Wilkins
School: John Burroughs High graduate, University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee
Date of death: Friday, January 18, 1991
Death details: Killed when shot down in an A-6 Intruder. Orginally listed as missing in action. Changed to killed in action on March 22, 1991.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Lost Angeles Times, Springfield News Leader (1991)
Joseph P. Moore, age 21, from Saint Louis County Maplewood, Missouri .
Parents: Harry R. and Betty Singelton Moore
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.
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Saint Louis Post Dispatch (1983)
Charles H. Stone, age 27, from Saint Louis County Saint Louis, Missouri .
Parents: H. O. Stone
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, February 2, 1972
Death details: Killed when his Air Force jet caught fire and crashed in Thailand
Source: National Archives, Daily American Republic (1972)
Herbert Ralph Stoneking, age 23, from Saint Louis County Saint Louis, Missouri .
Parents: Nannette Green
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, December 19, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Belleville New Democrat
Floyd Dean Caldwell, age 37, from St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, December 14, 1971
Death details: On December 14, 1971, a U-21A aircraft (tail number: 66-18041; call sign: Longtrip 041) with two crew members and four passengers took off from Phu Bai, Republic of (South) Vietnam, on an administrative mission to Da Nang. During the flight, the aircraft experienced an in-flight emergency, and the pilot radioed that he had lost an engine and had a fire. Within minutes of this transmission, all radio and radar contact with “Longtrip 041” was lost. They immediately launched search and rescue aircraft, but bad weather soon forced to return to base. Searches continued for the next three days but failed to locate any of the crew or its passengers.
Staff Sergeant (SSG) Floyd Dean Caldwell entered the U.S. Army from Missouri and served in the 220th Aviation Company, 212th Aviation Battalion, 11th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. He was a passenger aboard “Longtrip 041” when it went missing off the coast northeast of Da Nang, Republic of (South) Vietnam and his remains have not been recovered. Today, SSG Caldwell is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Charles Arthur Poppleton, age 19, from Saint Louis County Saint Louis, Missouri .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, November 18, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives
Larry Floyd Miller, age 24, from Saint Louis County Saint Louis, Missouri .
Parents: Omar P. Miller
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Southeast Missouri State College at Cape Girardeau
Date of death: Saturday, October 16, 1971
Death details: Died of injuries he suffered in an accidental fall from an antenna in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Saint Louis Post Dispatch (1971)
Ronald George Dickson from Saint Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, August 25, 1971
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives