1. Staten
Island University Hospital
2. The
Defense POW/MIA Office announced the identification of remains belonging to the
following personnel. Returned home are:
·
Marine
Corps Pfc. John F. Price, lost fighting on Tarawa
on Nov. 20, 1943. He was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine
Regiment, 2nd Marine Division.
·
Marine
Corps Pfc. Anthony Brozyna, lost fighting on Tarawa
on Nov. 20, 1943. He was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine
Regiment, 2nd Marine Division.
·
Army
Cpl. Robert P. Graham, 20, in February 1951, Graham was assigned to Company A,
13th Engineer Combat Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, which was engaged in a
battle near Hoengsong, South Korea. His unit was ordered to withdraw south
while under heavy attack. He was reported missing on Feb. 13,
1951.
·
Army
Air Forces Flight Officer Dewey L. Gossett, 23, was piloting an A-36A Apache in
a flight of four searching for targets of opportunity when they encountered bad
weather. Only three aircraft returned to base. He was assigned to the 527th
Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force.
·
Army
Pfc. Aubrey D. Vaughn, 20, On April `Punchbowl. Being returned home for burial
with full military honors on a date and location yet to be determined
are Ensign Joseph P. Hittorff Jr., 25, of Westmont , N.J.
3. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is seeking the public’s help to
find and encourage more MIA families to donate a DNA sample to help speed the
identification process of recovered remains. Currently, 89 percent of the
Korean War’s 7,800 MIAs have a family reference sample on file, 84 percent for
the Cold War’s 126 MIAs, and 81 percent of the Vietnam War’s 1,600 missing. But
for World War II, it’s a dismal 4 percent of the 73,500 who are still missing.
Each military service and the State Department has a service casualty office
that can explain how to donate.
| Army: 800-892-2490 | Navy: 800-443-9298 | State Department: 202-485-6106 |
| Marine Corps: 800-847-1597 | Air Force: 800-531-5501 |
4. Free parking for veterans at Richmond County Medical
Center
MIA
Update: The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced the identification of remains of five American
service members who had been missing in action since World War II. Being
returned home for burial with full military honors are:
-- Navy
Chief Storekeeper Herbert J. Hoard, 36, and Seaman 2nd Class Dale
F. Pearce, 21, had been missing since Dec. 7, 1941, when the
battleship USS Oklahoma they were aboard suffered multiple torpedo hits and
capsized as it was moored off Ford Island in Pearl
Harbor , Hawaii
-- Marine
Pfc. Elmer L. Mathies Jr., 21, will be buried May 28 in his hometown of Hereford , Texas island of Betio
in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands . He
was assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine
Division.
-- Army
Capt. Elwood J. Euart, 38, of Pawtucket , R.I. , died Oct. 26, 1942, died trying to rescue some
soldiers who were trapped in a transport ship that struck two mines as it was
entering Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides .
He was assigned to the 103rd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division.
Burial details have yet to be announced.
-- Army
Air Forces 1st Lt. Donald L. Beals, 21, of Brookings ,
S.D. , was a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot who died
April 17, 1945, while on a combat mission near Dresden , Germany
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced burial updates and new identifications of remains of 13 missing and unaccounted for servicemen from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Being returned for burial with full military honors are:
- Navy Seaman 2nd Class Challis R. James, of Portsmouth, Ohio, Fireman 1st Class Frank E. Nicoles, 25, of Eau Claire, Wis., Warrant Officer Daryl H. Goggin, 34, of Eugene, Ore., and Chaplain (Lt. j.g.) Aloysius H. Schmitt, 32, of St. Lucas, Iowa, had been missing since Dec. 7, 1941, when the battleship USS Oklahoma they were aboard suffered multiple torpedo hits and capsized as it was moored off Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- Army Sgt. 1st Class Richard Davis, of Indiana County, Pa., who was lost fighting in North Korea on Nov. 2, 1950. It would be later learned he was captured but died in captivity. He was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.
- Navy Lt. Cmdr. Frederick P. Crosby, 31, of Orlando, Fla., was piloting an RF-8A Photo Crusader on a combat mission in North Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed in Thanh Hoa Province on June 1, 1965. He was assigned to Light Photograph Squadron 63.
- Army Pvt. Earl J. Keating, 28, will be buried May 28 in his hometown of New Orleans. Group remains representing Keating and Pvt. John H. Klopp, 25, also of New Orleans, were buried in Arlington National Cemetery on March 23. On Dec. 5, 1942, Keating and Klopp died repulsing a Japanese attack in present-day Papua New Guinea. Both were subsequently buried, but their graves couldn’t be located after the war. Both were assigned to Anti-Tank Company, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. Read more.
- Marine Pfc. Elmer L. Mathies Jr., 21, will be buried May 28 in his hometown of Hereford, Texas. Mathies died Nov. 20, 1943, while fighting the Japanese on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands. He was assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Read more.
- Navy Motor Machinist's Mate 1st Class John E. Anderson, 24, will be buried May 28 in his hometown of Willmar, Minn. On June 6, 1944, Anderson was stationed aboard a Landing Craft Tank that after offloading its men and equipment during the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach was destroyed by enemy fire. Read more.
- Army Pvt. John P. Sersha, 20, of Leoneth, Minn., will be buried May 28 in Eveleth, Minn. On Sept. 27, 1944, during Operation Market Garden, Sersha was one of three “Bazooka Men” sent out with a platoon to assault German positions near Groesbeek, Netherlands. None of the three men returned. Sersha was assigned to Company F, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment. Read more.
- Air Force 1st Lt. Donald W. Bruch Jr., 24, of Montclair, N.J., will be buried May 29 in East Petersburg, Pa. On April 29, 1966, Bruch was piloting an F-105D Thunderchief toward a target in North Vietnam when his aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft artillery. He was assigned to the 333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing. Read more.
- Marine Pfc. James B. Johnson, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will be buried May 31 in Arlington National Cemetery. Johnson died Nov. 20, 1943, while fighting the Japanese on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands. He was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Read more.
