Paul Justin Cassidy, age 36, from Laingsburg, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 432Nd Civil Affairs Battalion, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date of death: Sunday, July 13, 2003
Death details: Camp Babylon, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Donald Joseph Murphy, age 20, from Owosso, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Parents: Donald J. Murphy
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, June 20, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives., UPI (1970)
Dwight I. Ade, age 22, from Owosso, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Parents: Harry Ade
Spouse: Carol
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Corunna High (1965), Michigan State University
Date of death: Sunday, March 29, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Lansing State Journal (1970)
Ralph Joel Crutts, age 21, from Owosso, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Parents: Kenneth and Virginia Norrs Crutts
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Owosso High (1966), Flint Junior College
Date of death: Sunday, May 18, 1969
Death details: Hostile, died of wounds, South Vietnam during the Battle of Hamburger Hill
Source: National Archives, Owosso Argus-Press (1969), Department of Defense
Ralph Joel Crutts, age 21, from Owosso, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Parents: Kenneth and Virginia Norrs Crutts
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Owosso High (1966), Flint Junior College
Date of death: Sunday, May 18, 1969
Death details: Hostile, died of wounds, South Vietnam during the Battle of Hamburger Hill
Source: National Archives, Owosso Argus-Press (1969), Department of Defense
Laurence O’Dea, age 18, from Shiawassee County Bennington, Michigan .
Parents: Michael O’Dea
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 1, 1950
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Corporal Laurence O’Dea, who joined the U.S. Army from Michigan, served with B Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 1, 1950, during his unit’s withdrawal from Kunu-ri to Sunchon. No one witnessed his death, and his body was not recovered from the battle. His name does not appear on any prisoner of war reports, and his remains have not been returned to U.S. custody. Corporal O’Dea is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Joe Raymond Nightingale, age 20, from Corunna, Michigan, Shiawassee County
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for in 2019
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Harold Noonan, age 22, from Corunna, Michigan, Shiawassee county.
Parents: Rena Bell and Wesley Murdock
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1941)