David Alexander Stephens, age 28, from Tullahoma, Tennessee, Franklin county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 2D Battalion, 508Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Bragg, Nc
Date of death: Thursday, April 12, 2007
Death details: Hostile; 5 Km South Of Four Corners, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense
Terrill Edward Bradford, age 20, from Tullahoma, Tennessee, Franklin county.
Parents: Stepfather Robert Massey
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Tullahoma High
Military history: F. Troop, 17th Cavalry, Americal Division
Date of death: Thursday, April 29, 1971
Death details: Died in a hospital of wounds suffered four days earlier in combat in Vietnam
Cemetery: Winchester Memorial Park in Tullahoma
Source: National Archives, The Tennessean (1971)
Robert Blaine Straight, age 32, from Tullahoma, Tennessee, Coffee county.
Spouse: Mildred F.D. Straight
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Major Robert Blaine Straight joined the U.S. Army from Tennessee and served as commander of Company B of the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 1, 1950, Company B was in defensive positions with the 1st Battalion near Unsan when it came under attack and was forced to withdraw. Major Straight went missing during this fighting, and one of the B Company survivors mentioned he was badly wounded in the B Company Command Post when last seen. He was never reported as a prisoner of war, and his remains were not identified among those returned to the U.S. following the war. Today, Major Straight is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Greenveville Sun (1954)