Raymond Joseph Souza, age 20, from San Leandro, California, Alameda county.
Parents: Lawrence A. Souza
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, May 13, 1970
Death details: Died in Southeast Asia
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1970)
Paul Alipio Baptista, age 23, from San Leandro, California, Alameda county.
Spouse: Carol J. Baptista
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, May 7, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1970)
Gary Lee Giovannelli, age 19, from San Leandro, California, Alameda county.
Parents: Sil Giovannelli and Maxine Exposito, step father Joseph A. Esposito
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, February 14, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam while serving on a river patrol.
Source: National Archives, Oakland Tribune (1970)
Richard Williams, age 41, from San Leandro, California, Alameda county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, September 18, 1968
Death details: On November 4, 1985, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of First Sergeant Richard Frank Williams, missing from the Vietnam War. First Sergeant Williams entered the U.S. Army from California and served with Company D, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry Brigade. On January 8, 1968, he was with his unit when it was ambushed by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam. He was captured during the engagement but died of unknown causes while held at the prisoner of war (POW) camp “Bravo.” In 1985, the Vietnamese government repatriated the remains of American POWs buried at camp “Bravo,” and U.S. investigators were able to identify 1SG Williams from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Arnold Brian Wallace, age 21, from San Leandro, California, Alameda county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, January 25, 1967
Death details: Private Arnold Brian Wallace entered the U.S. Army from California and was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. On January 25, 1967, he was aboard the USNS General John Pope (T-AP 110) en route to Vietnam when he got into an argument with a non-commissioned officer. As two military policemen (MP’s) were escorting him to the brig, he ran away from them and jumped overboard. He was seen to hit the water on his back. The MP’s immediately signalled “Man Overboard” and threw a light marker and two life preservers into the water. Search efforts were initiated immediately and lasted 19 hours but were unsuccessful in locating PVT Wallace, and he was not seen again. Today, Private Wallace is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency