Henry Dean Lankford, age 18, from Union County Union, South Carolina .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, March 5, 1966
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1966)
Aubrey Dean Vaughn, age 20, from Union, South Carolina, Union county.
Parents: James A Vaughn
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Monday, April 23, 1951
Death details: On February 24, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Aubrey Dean Vaughn, missing from the Korean War. PFC Vaughn joined the U.S. Army from South Carolina and was a member of C Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regimental Combat Team. On April 23, 1951, his company’s position was overrun by Chinese Communist Forces near Undamjang, North Korea. PFC Vaughn was captured during the fighting, and later died in captivity at a prisoner of war camp in Changsong, North Korea, in July 1951. His remains were returned to U.S. custody in 1954 following the ceasefire; however, they could not be identified at the time, and were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific as unknowns. In 2016, advances in forensic techniques prompted the re-evaluation and subsequent identification of PFC Vaughn’s remains. Private First Class Vaughn is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Greenwood Index Journal (1951)