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Thomas A. Julian, age 21, from Newport County Middleton, Rhode Island .
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
Edward F. Jr. Iacovino, age 20, from Kent County Warwick, Rhode Island .
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.
Cemetery: Rhode Island Veterans Memorial
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, findagrave.com
Rick R. Crudale, age 21, from Kent County Warwick, Rhode Island .
Spouse: Heidi Crudale (Petrozzi (April 1983)
Service era: Beirut bombings
Schools: Coventry High graduate, West Bay Vocational Technical School
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, Providence Journal
Edward Soares, age 21, from Newport County Tiverton, Rhode Island .
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
Stephen Eugene Spencer, age 23, from Newport County Portsmouth, Rhode Island .
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
James F. Silvia, age 20, from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Newport county.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terrorist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance
Orland James Pender Jr. from Warwick, Rhode Island.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: August 17, 1972
Death details: On February 20, 1996, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Orland James Pender Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Pender entered the U.S. Navy from Rhode Island and was a member of Fighter Squadron 114, Carrier Air Wing 11. On August 17, 1972, he was the flight officer aboard an F-4J Phantom II (bureau number 157262, call sign “Linfield 211”) that took off from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) to escort attack aircraft on a night strike mission against an enemy target in North Vietnam. During the mission, his aircraft was hit by an enemy surface-to-air missile that caused it to crash near the Haiphong area, killing LT Pender. An enemy presence in the loss area prevented search efforts, and his remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1991, U.S. investigators received human remains from a refugee source that correlated with a crash site near Yen Duc Village; between 1992 and 1996, a joint investigation team traveled to the crash site where excavations recovered artifacts and additional human remains. In 1996, investigators were able to identify LT Pender from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Linwood Lee Baker, age 26, from Ashton, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, July 26, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1971)
Robert William III MacNaught, age 26, from Warwick, Rhode Island, Kent county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, August 7, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Robert Lee Argenti, age 19, from Providence, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, July 20, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)