Douglass Terrell Wheless, age 24, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Parents: Wesley E. Wheless Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Byrd High graduate, Military Academy at West Point (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, November 22, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam from wounds received from a booby trap explosion
Source: National Archives, Shreveport Times (1970)
David Wayne Youngblood, age 22, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, August 21, 1970
Death details: Shot and killed in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Shreveport Journal (1970)
William Frederick Emanuel, age 20, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Parents: Alice A. and James Emanuel
Spouse: Doris Jean (Edwards)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Northwood High (1968)
Military history: Troop F, 17th Cavalry, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, American Division
Date of death: Thursday, July 2, 1970
Death details: Killed on his way in from the field in a military vehicle which struck a land mine
Source: National Archives
Charles Richard Hester, age 24, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Spouse: M. Hester
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 30, 1970
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, St. Mary and Franklin Banner Tribune (1970)
Frederick Edward Hughens, age 20, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Parents: Fred Hughens
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Captain Shreve High graduate
Date of death: Friday, June 26, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Shreveport Journal (1970)
James Edward Abbott, age 21, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Caddo county.
Parents: Pervis L. Abbott
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Linear High graduate
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Thursday, April 9, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when his unit encountered hostile forces.
Source: National Archives, Shreveport Journal (1970)
Perry Ables Jr. Smith from Shreveport, Louisiana, Bossier county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Calvin Edward Williams from Shreveport, Louisiana, Bossier county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Floyd Baxter Jones, age 20, from Shreveport, Louisiana, Bossier county.
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, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Shreveport Times (1942)
Ulysses Conely from Caddo County Shreveport, Louisiana .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
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. Master Sergeant Ulysses Conely, who joined the U.S. Army from Louisiana, was a member of Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by the CCF during the fighting withdrawal on December 1. He was marched north, eventually arriving at Camp 5, a prison camp on the bank of the Yalu River in Pyoktong, North Korea, where he died of illness in February or March 1951. His remains were not recovered, and he was not identified among the remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Master Sergeant Conely is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, The Town Talk (1951)