Benny Shantell Franklin, age 19, from Hammond, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 2D Battalion, 319Th Field Artillery (Cjtf-76) Fort Bragg, Nc
Date of death: Friday, October 7, 2005
Death details: Died in Kandahar, Afghanistan he stepped on a landmine during patrol operations
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James Peter Lambert, age 23, from Hammond, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Parents: Fred Lambert
Spouse: Rachel
Service era: Iraq
Schools: St. Amant High in Ascension Parish graduate
Military history: B Btry, 3Rd Bn, 62D Ada, 10Th Mtn Div (L) Fort Drum, New York
Date of death: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Levi Bond Kinchen, age 21, from Tickfaw, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Howitzer Battery 2D Squadron 2D Armor Cav Reg., Fort Polk, Louisiana
Date of death: Saturday, August 9, 2003
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Eugene Jr. Bean, age 21, from Hammond, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Spouse: Emma L. Bean
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, September 27, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Elton William Lewis, age 18, from Independence, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Parents: John W. Evans
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Hammond High
Military history: Company C (Rangers), 75th Ranger Brigade, 173rd Airborne Division
Date of death: Wednesday, September 9, 1970
Death details: Accidently drowned in Vietnam when his company was undergoing training that involved making a river crossing.
Source: National Archives, Hammond Vindicator (1970)
Eugene Selders, age 21, from Independence, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, June 4, 1970
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Robert Gordon Jr. Cozart, age 23, from Hammond, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 20, 1970
Death details: On July 27, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Robert Gordon Cozart Jr., missing from the Vietnam War. Major Cozart joined the U.S. Army from Louisiana and was a member of the 214th Aviation Battalion. On March 20, 1970, he piloted an O-1G Bird Dog on a visual reconnaissance mission over Vinh Binh Province, Vietnam. Major Cozart’s aircraft went down due for unknown reasons at some point during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. Search and rescue efforts launched when the Bird Dog failed to return were unsuccessful. In April 1989, the Vietnamese government returned a set of unidentied remains to U.S. custody. Later that year, U.S. analysts identified the returned remains as those of MAJ Cozart.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Bobby Gene Johnson, age 22, from Tangipahoa County Hammond, Louisiana .
Spouse: Rebecca Johnson
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 17, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1966)
Austin D. Bennett, age 33, from Tangipahoa County Roseland, Louisiana .
Spouse: Marian E. Bennett
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, June 3, 1963
Death details: Killed in the crash of a military chartered airline in the Gulf of Alaska
Source: Associated Press (1963), Morning World (1963)
Elma Isaac Chavers, age 19, from Amite, Louisiana, Tangipahoa county.
Parents: Joseph H. Waldrop
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Monday, March 3, 1952
Death details: On March 2, 1952, a Landing Craft Personnel, Large (LCPL) departed the USS Chittenden County (LST-561) in the Yellow Sea off the western coast of North Korea. The LCPL was carrying nine U.S. service members and three Allied service members on a reconnaissance mission to investigate a small island near the 38th Parallel. While heading toward the mission area, the surf became too rough and the LCPL turned back, but it never returned to the Chittenden County. There were no reported communications following the landing craft’s withdrawal from the mission area. Three to four days later, clothing and pieces of the LCPL were found and the discovery of this floating debris led the U.S. Navy to determine that the crew was lost in the location of the island of Yonp’yong Do, where enemy guerrillas had been active on March 2. Of the nine U.S. service members on board, the body of one U.S. Army officer washed ashore on a small island off the west coast of the Korean peninsula and was recovered; however, the eleven others on board were not found. Seaman Apprentice Elma Issac Chavers entered the U.S. Navy from Louisiana and served aboard the Chittenden County. He was a crew member aboard this LCPL when it went missing, and remains unaccounted for. Today, Seaman Apprentice Chavers is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1970)