Daniel Scanlon Brooker, age 20, from Volusia County New Smyrna Beach, Florida .
Parents: Helen E. Meier
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, November 15, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)
Frederick Olen Jones, age 31, from Volusia County New Smyrna Beach, Florida .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, October 2, 1971
Source: National Archives
Eugene Griffin, age 37, from Daytona Beach, Florida, Volusia county.
Spouse: Elnora Griffin
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, August 28, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Orlando Sentinel (1971)
James Dale Gardner, age 22, from Daytona Beach, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, June 21, 1970
Source: National Archives
George Alfred Birdwell, age 19, from DeLand, Florida, Volusia county.
Parents: Rita A. Birdwell
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, May 25, 1970
Source: National Archives
James Edward Cummings, age 20, from Pierson, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 16, 1970
Source: National Archives
Henry Lewis Allen, age 26, from Daytona Beach, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 26, 1970
Death details: On March 26, 1970, an O-1 Bird Dog (tail number 51-4996), call sign “Raven 23,” with two crew members took off on an area familiarization mission between Vientiane and Long Tieng, Laos. The ground station at Vientiane established radio contact with “Raven 23” twice during its mission, but on a third attempt there was no response from the crew and the Bird Dog never reached its destination. Extensive search efforts at the time failed to locate the aircraft, a crash site, or either of the two men who were aboard. After the war, the copilot’s remains were located and identified; however, the pilot was never found. First Lieutenant (1stLt) Henry Lewis Allen, who entered the U.S. Air Force from Florida, served in the Detachment One, 56th Special Operations Wing, and was the pilot of “Raven 23” when it went missing. Attempts to locate his remains following the incident have been unsuccessful. Today, Subsequent to the incident, and while carried in the status of missing in action (MIA), the U.S. Air Force promoted 1stLt Allen to the rank of Captain (Capt). On July 6, 1978, the U.S. Air Force posthumously promoted Capt Allen to the rank of (Maj). Today, Maj Allen is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
James Madison Jr. Masters, age 26, from Daytona Beach, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, March 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when a Navy EC121 spy plane with 31 crew aboard crashed into a hanger and started on fire.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Barney McCoy Smith, age 20, from Holly Hill, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, January 2, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Tampa Times (1970)
George Ronald Brown, age 32, from Holly Hill, Florida, Volusia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 28, 1968
Death details: On February 9, 2005, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Major George Ronald Brown, missing from the Vietnam War.
Sergeant Major Brown entered the U.S. Army from Florida and was a member of C & C Detachment, Drawer 22 (MACV-SOG), 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. On March 28, 1968, he was with a reconnaissance patrol being extracted by helicopter from Savannakhet Province, Laos. While hovering, the helicopter came under enemy fire and was forced to ascend with a rope extraction ladder still hanging from the aircraft. The ladder broke before the remaining men could climb it, including SGM Brown, and he either fell to his death or was killed by enemy fire in the landing area. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1992, a joint U.S./Laotian investigation team was led to a common grave related to this incident, where they found some material evidence from the case but could not locate SGM Brown’s remains. However, a U.S. citizen later turned over human remains received from a Laotian refugee, and modern forensic techniques were able to identify SGM Brown from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com