Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Thomas A. Dibenedetto, age 24, from Tolland County Mansfield Center, Connecticut .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Hartford Courant (1983)
Devon L. Sundar, age 23, from Fairfield County Stamford, Connecticut .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Hartford Courant (1983)
Stephen D. Tingley, age 20, from Hartford County Hartford, Connecticut .
Parents: Richard
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Hartford Courant (1983)
Randall A. Carlson, age 35, from Trumbull, Connecticut.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Saturday, September 25, 1982. He was one of four U.N. officers killed when their jeep struck a mine on the outskirts of the war-torn Lebanese capital.
Cemetery: United State Military Academy Post, West Point
Source: White House Commission on Rememberance, findagrave.com, UPI
Eugene Richard Johnson from Hartford County Forestville, Connecticut .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, November 23, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Clayton Plourde, age 20, from Hartford County Plainville, Connecticut .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, October 1, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Saint Joseph’s
Source: National Archives, Hartford Courant (1971)
Clifford Lamont Byrd, age 21, from Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford county.
Parents: William L. Byrd
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, September 8, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1971)
Frederick M. III Rader, age 24, from Westport, Connecticut, Fairfield county.
Parents: Fred M. Rader Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bearden High (1964, University of Tennessee (1968)
Date of death: Friday, November 27, 1970
Death details: Died while missing, South Vietnam. He was one of six crewmen aboard a C123 cargo plane that crashed.
Source: National Archives, Knoxville New Sentinel (1970)
Norman R. Jr. Stoddard, age 21, from Kent, Connecticut, Litchfield county.
Parents: Norman R. Staddard Sr.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Company L of the 75th Rangers, 101st Airborne Division
Date of death: Monday, November 16, 1970
Death details: Died during a helicopter rescue in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Douglas Edward White, age 19, from Meriden, Connecticut, New Haven county.
Parents: Frank L. White
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, November 15, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam. Died while on guard duty.
Cemetery: Walnut Grove
Source: National Archives, Meriden Record Journal (1970)