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Names Added
Updating 22 July 2015
The veterans listed are in the order of their acceptance by the Department
of Defense and later authorized to be inscribed on the Memorial.
This years' 2015 recipients:
Francis G. Corcoran
Place of Birth: Philadelphia PA
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, MSG
Date of Birth: November 15, 1928
Date of Death: December 9, 1967
Location: 35E, 041
Michael P. Knight
Place of Birth: Thomasville, GA
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, Cpt
Date of Birth: February 28, 1944
Date of Death: November 23,1969
Location: 14W, 079
Gannon C. Milby Jr.
Place of Birth: Easton, MD
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, SSG
Date of Birth: March 20, 1947
Date of Death: June 10, 1968
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Location: 51W, 041
Charley V. Stanley
Place of Birth: Houston, TX
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, SGT
Date of Birth: April 6, 1927
Date of Dealth: July 7, 1968
Location: 46W, 029
Stanley M. Staszak
Place of Birth: Maplewood, NJ
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, MAJ
Date of Birth: March 6, 1920
Date of Casualty: April 4, 1959
Location: 19E, 007
Clarence Turpin
Place of Birth: Baltimore, MD
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, SFC
Date of Birth: June 15, 1931
Date of Death: November 23, 1968
Location: 38W, 048
George L. Wilson
Place of Birth: Philadelphia PA
Service and Rank: U.S. Army, MSG
Date of Birth: August 24, 1924
Date of Death: November 8, 1967
Location: 29E, 057
Chester Staten
Place of Birth: Rayville, LA
Service and Rank: U.S. Navy, MM3
Date of Birth: July 4, 1943
Date of Death: April 13, 1965
Location: 5E, 043
** Please Note:
Charles Staten was honered at the 2014 ceremony but because of a
spelling error, VVMF officially engraved his name before the 2015 ceremony.
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Status changes - MIA to KIA
Col William Earl Cooper
Service and Date of Casulty: U.S. Air Force, April 2, 1966
Panel 6E, 131
Capt Dougls David Ferguson
Service and Date of Casulty: U.S. Air Force, December 30, 1969
Panel 15W, 110
Capt Melvin Wayne Finch
Service and Date of Casulty: U.S. Army, March 30, 1972
Panel 2W, 125
Col Francis J. McGouldrick Jr
Service and Date of Casulty: U.S. Air Force, December 13, 1968
Panel 36W, 017
SSgt James Lee VanBendegom
Service and Date of Casulty: U.S. Army, June 12, 1967
Panel 23E, 065
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This list is in PDF format because it is so large, you will have to download the information to review.
Veterans Added Chart (PDF)- updating during next few weeks
This file was updated completely with the 7 (plus 1) new veterans engraved on the "Wall" on Memorial Day 2014.
Key
| Entries in red are veterans who sustained
initial injuries in Vietnam, passed away years later but we have no information on their
actual date of casualty.
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| Entries in blue are veterans who sustained initial
injuries in Vietnam, passed away years later but we have their actual initial date of casualty.
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| *** is a fireman apprentice inadvertently left of the initial 1982 listing.
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| # The 5/1/2008 approval granted too late for the 2008 ceremony, so the family had to wait an additional
year for his inscription on the memorial.
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| Mateo Sabong was eliminated so this makes the official statistics for veterans added to
the Memorial since 1983 misleading.
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