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Anthony J. Denier, age 26, from Mechanicville, New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Sunday, December 2, 2012
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
David T. Miller, age 19, from Wilton, New York, Saratoga county.
Parents: Leslie Miller and Jesse Miller
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Date of death: Monday, June 21, 2010
Death details: Died at Lar Sholtan Village Afghanistan from wounds suffered when a suicide bomber attacked his unit. Spc. Andrew R. Looney was also killed in the incident.
Source: Department of Defense, Clarksville Online, Military Times
Stanley Howard Barrett, age 19, from Waterford, New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Troope A, 1st Cavalry
Date of death: Saturday, October 3, 1970
Death details: Killed in action. His brother Stephen C. Barrett was killed in Vietnam in 1968.
Source: National Archives, Troy Record (1970)
Floyd Edward III Andrus, age 22, from Greenfield Center, New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when a Navy EC121 spy plane with 31 crew aboard crashed into a hanger and started on fire.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Edmond Eugene III Smith, age 19, from Glens Falls, New York, Saratoga county.
Parents: Edmond Smith II
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Glens Falls High
Date of death: Tuesday, February 3, 1970
Death details: Died in 106th Gneral Hospital in Jpan from severe burns received in Vietnam on January 23, 1970.
Source: National Archives, Post Star (1970)
Robert Daniel Furlow from New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, May 3, 1951
Death details: On July 5, 1950, Task Force Smith, the first U.S. ground element to engage North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) troops, was defending a position north of Osan, South Korea. The Task Force’s goal was to delay enemy forces by blocking their movement down the road south from Suwon to Taejon, which was a major avenue of advance for the NKPA. That morning, the Task Force was engaged by a column of enemy tanks. The anti-tank weapons that the infantrymen employed were ineffective, and a large number of tanks broke through their position. Task Force Smith was forced to withdraw to the south, suffering heavy casualties in the process. Corporal Robert Daniel Furlow, who joined the U.S. Army from New York, served with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. His unit was part of Task Force Smith, and he was captured by enemy forces on July 5, 1950. He was forced to march to the Apex prison camps in North Korea, and died of exhaustion and pneumonia at the camp near An-dong on May 3, 1951. He was buried on the edge of the compound; however, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Corporal Furlow is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John W. Martin from New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, December 2, 1950
Death details: On September 24, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class John William Martin, missing from the Korean War.
Private First Class Martin joined the U.S. Army from New York and was a member of the Medical Company attached to the 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. In November 1950, his unit was a part of the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), which was defending the area north of Sinhung-ni, on the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. On November 27, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launched a large-scale surprise attack against U.S. forces in the Chosin Reservoir. The 31st RCT was forced to initiate a fighting withdrawal southward. PFC Martin went missing in action on December 2 during this withdrawal. He was never reported to be a prisoner of war, and he has not been identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. In September 2001, a joint U.S. and North Korean investigative team recovered remains from a burial site near where the 31st RCT fought in the Chosin Reservoir. These remains were accessioned into the DPAA laboratory, and PFC Martin was identified among them in 2018.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Anthony Edmund Costa from New York, Saratoga county.
Parents: Dominick Costa
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Sergeant Anthony Edmund Costa, who joined the U.S. Army from New York, served with Headquarters Company of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 1, 1950, Headquarters Company was operating the 3rd Battalion Command Post near Unsan. In the overnight hours of November 2nd, the Command Post came under heavy attack, received orders to withdraw but soon became surrounded by CCF. Sergeant Costa went missing during the chaotic fighting. A surviving American soldier reported that Sergeant Costa was captured and interned at Camp 5 at Pyoktong, where he eventually died of malnutrition sometime in March, 1951. He was not identified among the remains that North Korean officials returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today, Sergeant Costa is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Kingston Daily Freeman (1954)
Joseph Patrick Jr. Gilheany, age 19, from Saratoga County Mchanicville, New York .
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
Stanley H. Kingman from New York, Saratoga county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, November 14, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private First Class Stanley H. Kingman entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Massachusetts and served with the 27th Material Squadron in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of dysentery on November 14, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private First Class Kingman is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency