Arnold Lee Robbins, age 31, from Salamanca, New York, Cattarauqus county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, May 15, 1970
Death details: Hostile, Cambodia
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Robbins, Arnold Lee
Franklin, Keith Koy
Army Specialist 4
Keith Koy Franklin, age 19, from Salamanca, New York, Cattarauqus county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 12, 1970
Death details: Hostile, Cambodia. Keith left a letter for his parents to open if he died. “If you are reading this letter, you will never see me again,” he wrote. “If you are reading this it means that I have died. The question now is whether or not my death has been in vain. My answer is yes.”
Source: National Archives, Ithaca Journal (1970)
Talbot, Fred W
Army Specialist 4
Fred W Talbot, age 31, from Salamanca, New York, Cattaraugus county.
Spouse: Mary L. Talbot
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962)