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Wayne Harold Presson, age 23, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Parents: Samuel Craton Presson
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, Akron Beacon Journal (1942)
Harold Edgar Summers, age 22, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Parents: Orlie Edgar Summers
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, Akron Beacon Journal (1944)
Wayne Harold Presson, age 23, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Parents: Samuel Craton Presson
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, Akron Beacon Journal (1942)
Buford Harvey Dyer, age 19, from Barberton, Ohio, Summit county.
Parents: Thena Cromley
Service era: World War II
Date of death: December 7, 1941. Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for August 6, 2021
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
James Brantley Clark, age 20, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destroyer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941)
Joseph Hajoway, age 21, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destroyer USS Reuben James
Source: Baltimore Evening Sun (1941), Times Recorder (1941)
Charles Chester Hayes, age 19, from Summit County Akron, Ohio .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destroyer USS Reuben James
Source: Baltimore Evening Sun (1941), Times Recorder (1941)
Thomas F. Wolfe from Ohio, Summit county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On November 25, 1950, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked en masse all along the U.S. Eighth Army front on both sides of the Ch’ ongch’ on River in northwestern North Korea. The 2nd Infantry Division and supporting units, vastly outnumbered, were forced to conduct fighting withdrawals to the south to prevent Chinese flanking maneuvers. Chinese troops overran some of the artillery and mortar units that were in positions along the River during the beginning of their offensive. Sergeant Thomas Francis Wolfe entered the U.S. Army from Ohio and served with A Company, 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 26, while serving as a forward observer with a 9th Infantry Regiment task force, he was captured by enemy forces during the action along the Ch’ongch’on River line. He was marched toward Camp 5 at Pyoktong; however, he became mortally ill while en route to the camp and died at a small village near Pukchin-Tarigol during January 1951. Although he was buried near the village, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Sergeant Wolfe is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency