Christian Bautista Williams, age 27, from Winter Haven, Florida, Polk county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: D Co, 3D Lar Bn, (Rct-7, I Mef Fwd), 1St Mar Div, Twentynine Palms, Ca
Date of death: Saturday, July 29, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Rawah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
William Forman Abernethy from Winter Haven, Florida, Polk county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, July 21, 1970
Source: National Archives
Patrick Darren Lovell, age 22, from Winter Haven, Florida, Polk county.
Spouse: Dianna Faye Lovell
Children: Patrick D. and Robert R. Lovell
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 23, 1970
Source: National Archives, Tampa Tribune (1970)
Jerry Newton Phillips, age 39, from Winter Haven, Florida, Polk county.
Parents: Anna Phillips
Spouse: Margaret E. Phillips
Children: Laura, Cindy, John
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 2, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Playground Daily News (1970)
John Norlee Flanigan, age 35, from Winter Haven, Florida, Polk county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, August 19, 1969
Death details: On June 13, 1997, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain John Norlee Flanigan, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Flanigan entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Florida and was a member of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 542, Marine Air Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. On August 19, 1969, he was the radar intercept officer aboard an F-4B Phantom II (bureau number 149416, call sign “Pigment 502”) that took off from South Vietnam to escort a photo reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. During the mission, “Pigment 502” crashed for unknown reasons; Capt Flanigan was killed in the crash but his remains were not recovered at the time of his loss. In 1989, a joint U.S./Vietnamese investigative team recovered human remains associated with this F-4B’s loss, and the Vietnamese government eventually repatriated additional remains associated with the loss. Modern forensic techniques were able to identify Capt Flanigan among the remains recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Rhea P. Frierson, age 22, from Winter Haven, Florida.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, October 18, 1918
Death details: Died of disease
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com