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Edward Klann, age 34, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: August Klann
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Petoskey News Review (1942)
Clarence William Lipke, age 18, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Charles Frederick Lipke
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Detroit Evening Times (1942)
Benjamin R. Jr. Marsh, age 25, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Benjamin R. Marsh Sr.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Chester John Miller, age 18, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: John William Miller
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,MIA
Harold Ely Shiffman, age 27, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Morris Shiffman
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Detroit Free Press (1942)
Elmer Herbert Ulrich, age 21, from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Parents: William Ernest Ulrich
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Utah
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Detroit Evening Times (1941)
William James Mc Keever, age 17, from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Parents: William J. McKeever Sr.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Associated Press (1942)
Gerald Edward Mills from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Elmira Star Gazette (1941)
Joseph C. Polizzi from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Petoskey News Review (1941)
Milton Thearlo Bullis from Wayne County Michigan.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On June 29, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Milton Thearlo Bullis, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Bullis joined the U.S. Army from Michigan and was a member of the Medical Company attached to the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. In late November 1950, the 9th Infantry Regiment engaged Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) in a fighting withdrawal south from Sinhung-dong, North Korea, to Kunu-ri, and then to Sunch’on. U.S. troops had to fight through CCF roadblocks on the route to Sunch’on, and CPL Bullis was captured by enemy forces at some point during the withdrawal. He died of illness at the Pukchin-Tarigol prisoner of war camp complex in March 1951. In April 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered remains from a site near the area where the Pukchin-Tarigol camps had been. Advances in forensic techniques eventually allowed for some of these remains to be identified at those of CPL Bullis. Corporal Bullis is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency