1st Battalion Killed in Action
A Company
The names are arranged chronologically.
Click on an underlined name to go to that Soldier's personal page.
A star ( * ) in front of a name indicates there is a photo of that Soldier.
Pre-WWII listings include rank
WWII listings include rank and hometown (or home county)
Panel numbers on the
right indicate that Soldier's location
on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
Abbreviations:
KIA = Killed in Action
DOD = Died of Disease ( a phrase used to describe any non-battle
death,
used in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century)
DOW = Died of Wounds
FOD = Finding of Death ( missing, declared dead)
MIA = Missing In Action
Indian Wars
1867
Joseph Marshall.....09/14/67 - Captain - DOD
1870
Cornelius Bowler.....08/31/70 - Private - DOD
1873
Patrick Connor.....02/21/73 - Corporal - DOD
1879
Charles Mc Caffrey.....04/30/79 - Private - DOD
1884
Enoch Wood.....06/22/84 - Private - DOD
William Leukel.....11/24/84 - Private - DOD
1887
Albert G. Hines.....05/13/87 - Corporal - DOD
1891
John Ahern.....08/18/91 - Private - DOD
1892
William E. Bruce.....02/27/92 - 2nd Lieutenant - DOD
1894
Thomas J. Dennehy.....02/21/94 - Private - DOD
1896
William Smith.....03/14/96 - Private - DOD
* Horace G. Hambright.....04/15/96 - 2nd Lieutenant - DOD
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War With Spain
1898
Samuel Bennett.....07/01/98 - Private - KIA
Henry Niesen.....08/11/98 - Private - DOD
Richard A. Walsh.....08/19/98 - Private - DOD
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Philippine Insurrection & Moro Wars
1899
Charles S. Slemmons.....01/06/99 - Private - DOD
Frank B. Johnston.....10/06/99 - Private - DOD
Dimitri C. Buck.....12/05/99 - Private - DOD
Kenneth M. Rodenberger.....12/08/99 - Private - DOD
1900
Maurice Cain.....02/05/00 - Private - DOD
Wiley M. Tudor.....03/31/00 - Private - DOD
Perry G. Ethridge.....06/03/00 - Private - KIA
George J. Godfrey.....06/03/00 - Captain - KIA
Herbert E. Ellis.....06/11/00 - Private - DOD
1901
Patrick Mellon.....02/27/01 - Private - DOD
Alexander McCook.....06/04/01 - Private - DOD
John J. Collins.....09/20/01 - Private - DOD
1904
* Campbell W. Flake.....01/22/04 - Lieutenant - KIA
1905
Eary E. Sansoucie.....05/03/05 - Private - KIA
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Mexican Border Service
1913
William Heady.....09/07/13 - Private - DOD
1914
William Zeh.....04/24/14 - Private - DOD
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World War II
1944
Ralph E. Linch.....06/07/44 - Private First Class - Decatur, Georgia - KIA
Frank G. Baron.....06/08/44 - Private - Lockwood, Ohio - KIA
* Otis R. Cather.....06/08/44 - Private - Toledo, Illinois - KIA
* Max Croy.....06/08/44 - Technical Sergeant - Toledo, Illinois - KIA
Louis Drapkin.....06/08/44 - Private - Brooklyn, New York - KIA
John Dudra.....06/08/44 - Sergeant - Bulpitt, Illinois - KIA
* Edward D. Myers.....06/08/44 - Private - McKeesport, Pennsylvania - DOW
Edward A. Pate.....06/08/44 - Private - Chesterfield, South Carolina - KIA
* Thomas C. Shields.....06/08/44 - Captain - Washington, Mississippi - KIA
* Clarence E. Stewart.....06/08/44 - Private First Class - Collins, Mississippi - KIA
* Thomas E. Swinehart.....06/08/44 - Private First Class - Kansas City, Missouri - KIA
* John C. Agee.....06/10/44 - Private First Class - Rockridge, Illinois - KIA
* Theodore M. Alesantrino.....06/13/44 - Sergeant - Connelsville, Pennsylvania - KIA
* John M. Gray....06/14/44 - Technician Grade 5 - Yonkers, New York - KIA
* Keva Morris.....06/15/44 - Private - Brooklyn, New York - DOW
* Michael Feno.....06/17/44 - Technician Grade 5 - Eckley, Pennsylvania - KIA
* William J. Love Jr......06/17/44 - Private First Class - Atlanta, Georgia - KIA
* Gino Valenti.....06/17/44 - 1st Lieutenant - Washington, D.C. - DOW
* James M. Walker.....06/17/44 - Private - Mechanicsburg, Virginia, KIA
* Graham B. Cavenaugh.....06/21/44 - Private - Wallace, North Carolina - KIA
* Jesse L. Cothron.....06/21/44 - Private - Lafayette, Tennessee - KIA
* Maurice E. Miller.....06/21/44 - Private - Attica, Ohio - KIA
Thomas A. Miller.....06/21/44 - Technical Sergeant - Gainesville, Georgia - DOW
Henry W. Ryndak.....06/21/44 - Private - Chicago, Illinois - KIA
* Raymond L. Wilson.....06/21/44 - Private - Brazil, Indiana - DOW
* Henry J. Antul.....06/22/44 - Private - Worchester, Massachusetts - KIA
Stephen F. Byers.....06/22/44 - Private - Bridgeport, Connecticut - KIA
Sam A. Elias.....06/22/44 - Private - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Max L. Hendricks.....06/22/44 - Private - South Bend, Indiana - KIA
* Francis O. Hoffman.....06/22/44 - Staff Sergeant - Washington, D.C. - KIA
John J. Jacobs.....06/22/44 - Private - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Durward C. Kemp.....06/22/44 - Private - Itasca, Texas - KIA
* Richard W. Kreiser.....06/22/44 - Private - Lebanon, Pennsylvania - KIA
George T. Kugley.....06/22/44 - Private - Chicago, Illinois - KIA
Edward C. Randall.....06/22/44 - Private First Class - Metarie, Louisiana - KIA
Donald J. Riede.....06/22/44 - Technical Sergeant - Dana, Indiana - KIA
Rodolfo Roman.....06/22/44 - Private - Smeltertown, Texas - KIA
Aaron Smith.....06/22/44 - Private - Navarre, Ohio - KIA
Benjamin C. Folger.....06/24/44 - Private - Dobson, North Carolina - KIA
Joseph L. Hogan.....06/25/44 - Private - Chicago, Illinois - KIA
Edwin B. Hinkle Jr......06/27/44 - Private First Class - Hot Springs, Arkansas - KIA
Wolf Breier.....06/30/44 - Private - Jersey City, New Jersey - KIA
* Thomas McLaughlin.....07/03/44 - Private - Frackville, Pennsylvania - KIA
Embree W. Logue.....07/08/44 - Private - Adrian, Georgia - DOW
* Samuel O. Lowe....07/08/44 - Private - Corapolis, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Elmer H. Weihert.....07/09/44 - Private First Class - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - KIA
* Matthew L. Gorczyca.....07/10/44 - Private - Lackawana, New York - DOW
* William L. Hannon.....07/10/44 - Sergeant - Giradville, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Ralph E. Hooker.....07/10/44 - Private - Nashville, Tennessee - KIA
* Thomas M. Pierce Jr......07/10/44 - Private - Cornwall Heights, Pennsylvania KIA
* Floyd B. Baker.....07/11/44 - 2nd Lieutenant - New York - KIA
* David H. Henry.....07/11/44 - Captain - South Carolina - KIA
* James E. Howley.....07/11/44 - Private First Class - Dorchester, Massachusetts - KIA
Peter P. Kulikowski.....07/11/44 - Staff Sergeant - Coal Center, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Acie B. Drinkard.....07/12/44 - Private First Class - Falkville, Alabama - KIA
Alvin I. Milliron.....07/13/44 - Private - Westmoreland, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Wilson S. Broussard.....07/26/44 - Private First Class - Lake Arthur, Louisiana - KIA
Anthony R. Rennie.....07/27/44 - Staff Sergeant - Portland, Oregon - KIA
Norman T. Renninger.....07/27/44 - Private First Class - Zerbe, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Arthur E. Twitchell.....07/28/44 - Private - Antimony, Utah - KIA
James R. Barber.....07/29/44 - Private First Class - Detroit, Michigan - DOW
* Michael Havrileck.....07/29/44 - Private First Class - Wheeling, West Virginia - DOW
* Ernest Lavoie.....07/29/44 - Sergeant - Fall River, Massachusetts - DOW
* George M. Ruoff.....07/29/44 - Private - Richmond Hill, New York - DOW
Michael Turanica.....07/29/44 - Technician Grade 5 - Allentown, Pennsylvania - DOW
Frank C. Moore....07/30/44 - Private First Class - Newport, Vermont - KIA
Loren A. Bast....08/02/44 - Private First Class - Grandy, Minnesota - KIA
* Lloyd E. Davenport....08/28/44 - Private - Cooper, Kentucky - KIA
* Elmer Smith.....09/03/44 - Private First Class - Lodi, New Jersey - KIA
Warren A. Olson....09/14/44 - Private First Class - Star Prarie, Wisconsin - KIA
* Darrell McInnis.....09/15/44 - Staff Sergeant - Shreveport, Louisiana - KIA
Robert H. Karlson.....09/17/44 - Private First Class - Winter, Wisconsin - KIA
* Anthony J. Hrubec.....09/20/44 - 1st Lieutenant - Bergen, New Jersey - KIA
* Peter J. Marco.....09/20/44 - 1st Lieutenant - Berks, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Ernest E. Martinez.....09/20/44 - Private First Class - Albuquerque, New Mexico - KIA
Leo Phillips.....09/20/44 - Private First Class - Tahlequah, Oklahoma - KIA
Joseph R. Bove.....10/07/44 - Private - New York, New York - KIA
* David W. Hines.....10/07/44 - Private - Gaithersburg, Maryland - KIA
* James E. Hand.....11/17/44 - Sergeant - Chicago, Illinois - KIA
Leonard J. K. Moyer Jr......11/17/44 - Private First Class - Boyertown, Pennsylvania - DOW
* Donald H. McCracken.....11/18/44 - 1st Lieutenant - Erie, New York - KIA
* Charles R. Knox.....11/20/44 - Sergeant - Seven Mile, Ohio - KIA
* Mack Bryant.....11/22/44 - Sergeant - Latta, South Carolina - KIA
* William F. Delaney.....11/22/44 - Private First Class - Kingston, Tennessee - KIA
Elvie Ingram.....11/22/44 - Staff Sergeant - Rockford, Alabama - KIA
George A. Mahner.....11/22/44 - Sergeant - Rhinelander, Wisconsin - KIA
* Arnold F. Wolfenbarger.....11/22/44 - Staff Sergeant - Harrogate, Tennessee - KIA
Robert G. Goebelbecker.....11/ 25/44 - Private First Class - Kent, Ohio - KIA
Shirley R. Rinard....12/01/44 - Private First Class - St Marys, West Virginia - KIA
Buster B. Chapman.....12/02/44 - Private - Trion, Georgia - DOW
Howard N. Lamb....12/02/44 - Technician Grade 4 - Dothan, Alabama - KIA
* Olen E. Barnes.....12/03/44 - Private First Class - San Pedro, California - KIA
* Harry D. Caudill.....12/03/44 - Private - Arlee, West Virginia - KIA
* Edward W. Cox.....12/03/44 - Private - Coushatta, Louisiana - DOW
* Leland Davis.....12/03/44 - Private - Altha, Florida - KIA
* Lawrence J. Fabre.....12/03/44 - Private - Morgan City, Louisiana - KIA
* Charles R. Guild.....12/03/44 - Private - Troy, New York - KIA
William J. Hilliker.....12/03/44 - Private First Class - Middletown, Connecticut - KIA
* George J. Mildenstein.....12/03/44 - Private - Chicago, Illinois - DOW
* Jesse L. Rollins.....12/03/44 - Private First Class - Charleston, West Virginia - KIA
* Milo O. Whipple.....12/03/44 - Private First Class - Union City, Indiana - FOD
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1945
Arthur A. Bonaldo.....01/02/45 - Private First Class - New Haven, Connecticut - KIA
* Elton K. Fisher.....01/02/45 - Staff Sergeant - Ennis, Texas - KIA
* Emil W. Lekatz.....01/02/45 - Private - Chicago, Illinois - KIA
Norman L. Neff.....01/14/45 - Private - New Market, Virginia - MIA/FOD
Fred O. Bartlett.....02/04/45 - Private - Independence, Missouri - KIA
Joseph I. Hickey.....02/04/45 - Private - Jasonville, Indiana - KIA
Samuel L. Caughman.....02/06/45 - Private - Minerva, Ohio - KIA
* Howard J. Kane.....02/06/45 - Private First Class - Dorchester, Massachusetts - KIA
* George V. Neill.....02/06/45 - Private - Paterson, New Jersey - KIA
* Merle W. Sabin.....02/06/45 - Staff Sergeant - Wolcott, Vermont - KIA
Alexander Sinclair Jr......02/06/45 - Private - Springfield, Massachusetts - KIA
Louis D'Amato.....02/07/45 - Private First Class - Brooklyn, New York - DOW
Louis E. Befano.....02/10/45 - Private First Class - East Orange, New Jersey - KIA
* Kennon S. Breazeale.....02/10/45 - 1st Lieutenant - Anderson, South Carolina - KIA
* Charles T. Jones.....02/10/45 - Private First Class - Cumberland, Maryland - KIA
Raymond C. Paquette.....02/10/45 - Private - Michigamme, Michigan - KIA
Harry E. Morris.....02/11/45 - Private - Mart, Texas - KIA
Leo H. Lang.....02/15/45 - Private - Saginaw, Michigan - KIA
* Leo Hoos.....03/01/45 - Sergeant - Brooklyn, New York - KIA
Frank M. Espino.....03/02/45 - Technical Sergeant - Bard, California - KIA
*Andrew Marchincak.....03/02/45 - Private - Clifton, New Jersey - KIA
* Joe L. Padilla.....03/02/45 - Private - Colmer, New Mexico - KIA
* Charles J. Zalac.....03/02/45 - Private - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Joseph B. Brannon.....03/03/45 - Private - Timpson, Texas - KIA
* Garland R. Farris.....03/03/45 - Private - Plasterco, Virginia - KIA
* Edward J. Fortuna.....03/03/45 - Technician Grade 4 - Niagara Falls, New York - KIA
Ned Hart.....03/03/45 - Private - Union, South Carolina - KIA
* John G. Joubert.....03/03/45 - Private - Rochester, New York - KIA
* William R. Kramer.....03/03/45 - Private - Plainfield, New York - KIA
Albert D. McCue.....03/03/45 - Private - McKees, Pennsylvania - FOD
* Arnold J. Meszaros.....03/03/45 - Private First Class - Irvington, New York - KIA
* Stratton Perry.....03/03/45 - Corporal - Wise, Virginia - KIA
Louis J. Przybylski.....03/03/45 - Private First Class - South Bend, Indiana - KIA
Calvin R. Reitzer.....03/03/45 - Private - D'hanis, Texas - KIA
George W. Roth.....03/03/45 - Private - Indianapolis, Indiana - KIA
Reno J. Scatolini.....03/03/45 - Private - Derby, Connecticut - KIA
Harding C. Young.....03/03/45 - Private - Sedalia, Missouri - KIA
* Anthony W. Triano.....03/05/45 - Private - Naugatuck, Connecticut - KIA
Robert E. Barnhart.....03/31/45 - Private First Class - Florida - MIA/FOD
William T. Tolbert.....04/01/45 - Private - Statham, Georgia - DOW
* Harmon R. Hurd.....04/02/45 - Private - Ashley, Pennsylvania - KIA
* John H. Mahoney.....04/02/45 - 1st Lieutenant - Middlesex, Massachusetts - KIA
* Sam D. Morris.....04/02/45 - Sergeant - Battiest, Oklahoma - KIA
Archie A. Patterson.....04/02/45 - Private - Yatesboro, Pennsylvania - KIA
Anthony J. Sanderbeck Jr......04/02/45 - Private - Beaver, Pennsylvania - KIA
Gelardo Scotti.....04/02/45 - Private - Brooklyn, New York - KIA
* Robert C. Yingling.....04/02/45 - Technician Grade 4 - York, Pennsylvania - KIA
Michael J. Lucas.....04/03/45 - Technical Sergeant - Shaft, Pennsylvania - KIA
* Charles O. Wade.....04/12/45 - 2nd Lieutenant - Allegany, Maryland - KIA
Oscar Rivera.....04/14/45 - Private - Bronx, New York - KIA
* Lee R. Tubbs Jr......04/14/45 - Private First Class - Wheatland, Oklahoma - KIA
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Republic of Vietnam
1966
* Wolfgang Werner Karasch.....09/09/66 - Panel 10E Line 79
* Richard Glen Collins.....11/05/66 - Panel 12E Line 27
* Dallas George Grundy.....11/05/66 -- (33rd IPSD) - Panel 12E Line 28
* Douglas Earl Murray.....11/05/66 - Panel 12E Line 29
* Terrance Richard Lyle.....11/10/66 - Panel 12E Line 51
* Lowell Eugene Schultz.....11/10/66 - Panel 12E Line 52
* Thomas George Fitzgibbon.....11/12/66 - Panel 12E Line 61
* Alberto I Jara-Verano.....12/24/66 - Panel 12E Line 77
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1967
* Channing Allen Jr.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 38
* Lee R Bays.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 38
* Anastacio Hernando Beltran.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 47
* William Michael Berenwick.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 39
* Lanny Ross Bolding.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 39
* Douglas Robert Colbert.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 40
* Donald Ralph Dorman.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 41
* Curtis Lamar Duck.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 41
* Larry Steven Fetherolf.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 42
* Walter Walton Haring.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 44
* Clemente Daniel Hernandez.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 44
* Elmer Fred Kepsel.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 46
* Kenneth Leroy Koster.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 46
* Richard Alfred Lawrence.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 39
* Lee Lewis.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 47
* Marlow Martin Loecker.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 47
* John Edward Oocumma.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 49
* Donald Lawrence Schnee.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 51
* Richard Tarkington Jr.....02/16/67--(Attached from HHC) - Panel 15E Line 51
* Alton Joseph Zerangue Jr.....02/16/67 - Panel 15E Line 52
* Edwin Jones.....03/03/67 - Panel 16E Line 11
* Leslie Paul Bernstein.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 75
* Marshall Edward Clements.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 76
* James A Cran.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 76
* James Barton Cummings Jr.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 77
* Anibal De Jesus-Sanchez.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 77
* Hang Ngoc Le.....03/14/67 -(Attached from ARVN as an interpreter)
* Fred Newton Hanshew Jr.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 78
* Matthew Higgins.....03/14/67-(Attached from HHC)- Panel 16E Line 78
* Robert Wilson Hill.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 78
* Edwin Newlin Holloway III.....03/14/67-(Attached from HHC)- Panel 16E Line 79
* Roger Scott Kohut.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 80
* William Kuhne.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 80
* Melvin Lipscomb.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 80
* Larry Richard Lumpkins.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 80
* William Calvin Pearce IV.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 81
* Clarence Edward Rollen.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 82
* Charles Patrick Terhune.....03/14/67 - Panel 16E Line 82
* George Xavier Rocha.....12/18/67 - Panel 32E Line 18
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1968
* John Herston Jackson ..... 02/05/68 - Panel 37E Line 37
* Albert Randolph Fogg III ..... 02/06/68 - Panel 37E Line 55
* Duane Edward Litzinger.....02/06/68 - Panel 37E Line 60
* Jose Antonio Travieso.....02/06/68 - Panel 37E Line 72
* James Leroy Wise Jr.....02/06/68 - Panel 37E Line 74
* Gary Neal Hall.....04/27/68 - Panel 52E Line 30
* William Joseph Seykora ..... 04/27/68 - Panel 52E Line 32
* William Jursza Jr.....04/27/68 - Panel 52E Line 30
* Ivol Micheal York.....04/28/68 - Panel 52E Line 45
* Darrius Wayne Adams.....05/05/68--(also served in D) - Panel 54E Line 42
* Charles C Isler Jr.....07/01/68 -Panel 54W Line 30
* Roger Leroy Lane.....07/01/68 - Panel 53W Line 31
* Roy Lee Whittlesey.....07/01/68 - Panel 54W Line 34
* Lawrence Waiters.....08/28/68 - Panel 46W Line 54
* Karl Roy Bieser.....09/23/68 - Panel 43W Line 67
* Melvin Calvin Mauldin Jr.....10/12/68 - Panel 41W Line 53
* Boyce Lee Hall.....12/10/68 - Panel 37W Line 81
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1969
* Jose Anibal Echevarria Jr.....06/05/69 - Panel 23W Line 72
* Donald Eugene Scott.....09/24/69 - Panel 17W Line 5
* Louis Robert Sustersic.....11/03/69 - Panel 16W Line 24
* John Henry Wilson.....11/03/69 - Panel 16W Line 25
* Ronald Gene De Weese.....11/14/69 - Panel 16W Line 73
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1970
* Denis James Zimprich.....04/07/70 - Panel 12W Line 105
* Vernel Collins.....04/30/70--(Died with MACV Advisory Team 84) - Panel 11W Line 072
* Patrick Ernest Hennen.....05/08/70 - Panel 11W Line 131
* Paul Everette Paquin Jr.....06/27/70 - Panel 09W Line 99
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HAITI 1994
Alejandro Robles.....09/27/1994
Gerardo D. Luciano.....10/16/1994
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IRAQ 2006
* Chase A. Haag.....10/01/2006
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IRAQ 2009
* Stephen Scott Thompson.....02/14/2009 (Attached from HHC)
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AFGHANISTAN 2011
* Robert C. Sisson.....02/21/2011
* Andrew C. Wilfahrt.....02/27/2011 (Attached from 3/552 MP Co.)
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