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Lewis Jay Gentry, age 48, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 94Th Engineer Battalion (Mnci), Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Death details: Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Craig Stuart Frank, age 24, from Lincoln Park, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 1775Th Military Police Company, Taylor, Michigan
Date of death: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Holly Jeanne McGeogh, age 19, from Taylor, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 4Th Fsb, 4Th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Tx 76544
Date of death: Saturday, January 31, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Kirkuk, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Trevor Arthur Blumberg, age 22, from Canton, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Bn, 504Th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, Nc 28310
Date of death: Sunday, September 14, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Stanley W. Bartusiak, age 34, from Romulus, Michigan, Wayne county.
Spouse: Diana
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, February 25, 1991
Death details: Killed inside a barrack during a SCUD missle attack.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Chicago Sun Times, Detroit Free Press (1991)
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
Richard John Lewis, age 23, from Northville, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Nancy Lewis
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI, Lansing State Journal (1989)
Freddy Paul Heugel, age 35, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Wayne County.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 12, 1984
Death details: He died this day in 1984 from wounds he received in 1969 at age 20. Years ago his fiancé posted this on a Vietnam memorial site: “He came home with massive injuries just five months after he left. When he found out how bad it was he refused to see me. I was devastated.” Freddy’s name was added to the Vietnam Wall in 1989.
Source: National Archives, togetherweserved, Battle Creek Enquirier (1989)
Leon Banning, age 20, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, October 30, 1983
Death details: One of three American soldiers from a multi-national force patrolling the Sinai Peninsula who were killed when their truck crashed into a tree near the northwestern Sinai town of El Arish.
Source: Detroit Free Press (1983), Poughkeepsie Journal (1983)
Johansen Banks, age 23, from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Parents: Estelle Banks
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Associated Press (1983)