Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Tyrone M. Brooks, age 19, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Newsweek, Orlando Sentinel, Department of Defense
David A. Gilliland, age 21, from Warrensburg, Missouri, Johnson county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Mark E. Hutchison, age 27, from Elkins, West Virginia, Randolph county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Daniel Lupatsky, age 22, from Centralia, Pennsylvania, Columbia county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Michael Nunnally. Jr. Manns, age 23, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, Frederick county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, The Gulf War Chronicles, Newsweek; Library of Virginia, Richmond
Daniel C. McKinsey, age 21, from Hanover, Pennsylvania, York county.
Parents: Margaret Knoke McKinsey and the late Herman W. McKinsey
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: William Penn Senior High (1986)
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Cemetery: Mount Rose, York County
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, findagrave.com, York Sunday News (1990)
Fred R. Jr. Parker, age 24, from Reidsville, North Carolina, Rockingham county.
Parents: Fred Parker Sr. and Leona
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Reidsville High (1984)
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, News & Record (2015)
James A. Jr. Smith, age 22, from Somerville, Tennessee, Fayette county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
John M. Snyder, age 25, from Milltown, New Jersey, Middlesex county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Robert L. Volden, age 38, from Virginia , Vrginia Beach county.
Parents: Arthur Rauscher, great uncle who raised him
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Quit school at age 17 in 1969 to join the Navy
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, Fort Pierce Tribune (1991)