Edward J. Dycus, age 22, from Greenville, Mississippi.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Cemetery: Greenvile
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, findagrave.com
Katrina Renee Grady, age 29, from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Uss Port Royal
Date of death: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Death details: Bethesda, United States
Source: Department of Defense
James Paul Pettiegrew, age 18, from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Parents: R. D. Pettiegrew
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, September 4, 1971
Death details: Killed in action when the helicopter he was in was shot down.
Cemetery: Delta Memorial Gardens
Source: National Archives, Delata Democrat Times (1971)
Jerold Franklin, age 21, from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Parents: James O. Franklin
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, July 30, 1970
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Calvin Jerome Layton, age 20, from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Parents: Mrs. Willie M. Sprouse
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Coleman High (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, April 5, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Delta Democrat Times (1970)
Robert Barry Crosby, age 23, from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Parents: Henry T. Crosby
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 26, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Willie James Hayes from Greenville, Mississippi, Washington county.
Parents: Willie Hayes
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, January 2, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Eddie L. Rippee, age 21, from Washington County Hollandale, Mississippi .
Parents: Edward L. Rippee
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 22, 1966
Death details: Killed when an American Flyers airliner smashed into a mountainside southeast of Ardmore, Oklahoma. The plane was enroute to Fort Benning Georgia for Fort Ord, California
Source: Associated Press (1966)
Lawrence Beverly McCloud, age 21, from Washington County Greenville, Mississippi .
Parents: Frank McCloud Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 101st Airborne Division
Date of death: Sunday, February 27, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Cemetery: Delta Memorial Gardens
Source: National Archives, Delta Democrat Times (1966)
Charles N. Milam, age 20, from Washington County Greenville, Mississippi .
Parents: Alva Overton
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, February 1, 1944
Death details: On May 8, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S. Army Pfc. Charles N. Milam, missing from World War II. Milam entered the U.S. Army from Mississippi and served as a rifleman with Company F, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. From late January through late May 1944, Milam’s 3rd Infantry Division fought in the Battle of Anzio in Italy. On Jan. 31, he was reported missing during combat against German forces near the small hamlet of Ponte Rotto, close to the town of Cisterna di Latina. Members of his squad believed that he may have been killed in action by artillery at some point that day, but his body was not recovered. Having no evidence that Milam had survived the conflict, the War Department issued a presumptive finding of death on April 19, 1945. Post-war search efforts by the American Graves Registration Service failed to recover his remains and he was declared non-recoverable in 1949. As part of a comprehensive research and recovery effort focused on American soldiers missing from ground combat in Italy, DPAA historians and scientific staff recommended exhuming for new analysis a set of remains which had been recovered in July 1944 by graves registration personnel near Ponte Rotto. At the time, the American Graves Registration Service did not have enough data to positively identify the remains, which had been interred as an Unknown at the U.S. Military Cemetery Nettuno, now Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. In September 2021, this Unknown was disinterred and transported to the DPAA laboratory for forensic analysis and further study. There, the laboratory analysis, together with the total circumstantial evidence, confirmed the remains as those of Milam.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Sun Herald (1944)