18 year old Thomas A. Christensen, Jr., enlisted in the Navy as a Dental Technician, but found himself assigned serving alongside Marines in Korea as their Corpsman. On the drive towards the Chosin Reservoir, Christensen and his unit guarded a railroad train as it was...
1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, U.S. Army was killed by a rocket explosion on June 8, 1969, less than 10 weeks after she arrived in Vietnam. Assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital, 1LT Lane was working in the Vietnamese ward of the hospital when the rocket...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Jackey D. Blosser, 21, of Randolph County, West Virginia, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Nov. 12, 2019. (This identification was initially published Nov. 14, 2019.) In late...
Specialist Jordan Byrd served as a medic in the 101st Airborne. When his unit came under fire during an operation, Byrd watched as one of his fellow soldiers went down with a shot to the leg. Without hesitation, Byrd rushed to his aid across 30 meters of open ground,...
A Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy was killed in a crash while racing to the aid of fellow deputies who were being attacked by a domestic violence suspect. It was just after 3 a.m. Saturday when a 911 call reported that a child had been attacked and there were...
