Nicholes Darwin Golding, age 24, from Addison, Maine, Washington county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Company 2d Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, Fort Drum, Ny 13612
Date of death: Friday, February 13, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Ghazni, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Norman Huntley, age 18, from Eastport, Maine, Washington county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, September 27, 1969
Death details: On September 26, 1969, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-15558, call sign “Gladiator 558”) with four crew members took off on an extraction mission for a long range reconnaissance patrol team in Laos. As the aircraft departed the extraction zone in the vicinity of (GC) YB 458 318, with four patrol members attached by rope and rigs, it came under heavy enemy fire, descended, crashed, and burned. The crew chief was able to get the pilot and copilot to safety; however, his attempts to retrieve the body of the door gunner failed due to continuing enemy fire. No further attempts were made to recover the remains of the gunner and he remains unaccounted for.
Private First Class John Norman Huntley entered the U.S. Army from Maine and was a member of the 57th Aviation Company, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. He was the was the door gunner aboard this Iroquois when it crashed, and he was killed in the incident. His remains could not be recovered. Today, Private First Class Huntley is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Portland Press Herald (1969)