ENS Stephen Harris Jones

Paul Camullis Goldsborough, Jr    KIA USS Blessman (DE-69/APD-48) Battle of Iwo Jima - 18 Feb 1945 . Buried at sea. Age 19

Tommy Shadrick KIA

Francis Leo "Winkie" Downs    82nd Airborne Killed in Action Waal River Crossing 20 Sept 1944

George B. Young KIA 22 Sept 1944

Pvt William Walter Bush Son of Francis "Frank" Benjamin Bush & Rebecca "Bessie" Brown Died 3 Dec 1943 Age 21

Pvt Harry Wilson Conner. Mechanicsville. 51st INF BN, 4th ARMD DIV. Died at Bastogne of artillery wounds 2 Jan 1945. Age 26

PFC Leo Joseph Bohanan - married father of 2 sons KIA 19 Mar 1945 in 26 Infantry's drive to the Rhine River

PFC James Thomas Greenwell, Jr Died of wounds 12 Nov 1944 a POW under German control.

2 Lt John Shellman Baer Left college to enlist. Killed in Action 24 Sept 1944 leading his Inf unit against German Gothic Line. Age 23

Sgt Thomas Emanuel St. Clair , Clements. 169th Inf, 43rd Div. KIA 6 March 1943. Age 23

Montrone/Moore/Moreland

USN CEM Albert Eugene Hayden "Rouch". First Maryland casualty of WW2 aboard USS Oklahoma Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941.  His service spanned two World Wars.

Sylvester Vincent Brown Killed in line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch Disaster. Pvt Brown’s body was returned to his widowed mother Cora Brown of Ridge by Army hearse from Philadelphia escorted by a sergeant guard of honor till burial in St Peter Claver Catholic Cemetery, St Inigoes, 30 Oct 1947. First deceased soldier returned to St. Mary’s County and first colored soldier’s body returned to Maryland

George Munroe Willis, Scotland, USMM MIA S.S. Arlyn 28 Aug 1942 torpedoed off Newfoundland by U-165

Robert Francis Brown MIA line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch Disaster

TEC5 Albert Eugene Beck. Hollywood. Taken prisoner during Battle of the Bulge. Died 8 Mar 1945 at Stalag 12A Limburg, Germany -body never recovered. Albert was 19 years old.

Pvt Philip Dennis Bowles Killed in Action 1 Aug 1943 during heavy fighting for Munda Airfield. Age 23

Sgt John Caleb Dean. Hollywood. KIA 15 Apr 1945 after rejecting a furlough in order to stay with his Company. Age 21

PFC John Thomas Abell, "Johnnie". Killed in the Line of Duty NB drowning 10 Jun 1945 Rhine River, Andernach, Germany. Body never recovered. Age 21

Ernest Friess 344th BS, 98th BG, USAAF. Pilot B-24 Liberator "Hey Doc" MIA 11 Nov 1944 Age 22

Sgt William "Billy" Falk Graves USAAF, 63rd BS, 43rd BG, KIA/MIA 28 Jul 1945 B-24 Liberator "Boots". Age 20

Sgt George Carroll Higgs KIA 12 Jan 1945 aboard SS Kyle V Johnson when hit by Japanese kamikaze. Body never recovered Age 35

PFC Odell Orie Poe St. George Island KIA during house-to-house, hand-to-hand combat 4 Feb 1945 liberating Jebsheim. 1 of 66 names on the Jebsheim War Memorial for giving his life for its liberation

Pvt Howard Leyshon 135th Inf, Co C Enlisted at 17 feeling it was his duty. Killed in Action 6 Jan 1944 Italy Age 18

Cpl David L Markham 31st Inf , Survived Bataan Death March of 65 miles starving, dehydrated, brutalized. Died POW 18 May 1942 Age 20. A member of the Battling Bastards of Bataan

PFC Joseph Albert Mattingly Son of Albert Lee Mattingly and Mary Beatrice Wallace Mattingly; USMC Killed in Action on Iwo Jima 19 Feb 1945 Age 22

S/Sgt George F Wathen 359th IR, 90th ID, KIA Battle of the Bulge Age 37

Capt George Hume Peabody, Jr. Leonardtown. USAAF 5th FS, 52nd FG only son of Brigadier General and Mrs. Hume Peabody, born in Riverside. California, June 30th, 1919. . An Army brat attending school over the world he grew up dreaming of flying and at Roosevelt High in Honolulu was R.O.T.C. cadet captain senior year. attended West Point Prep winning presidential appointment to West Point. Died in over Gibraltar.MIA 27 Oct 1942 at Age 23. Brig General Peabody died in Leonardtown at age 90 Jan 1 1980. Leonardtown's Peabody Street honors the family's military contributions to our Country

Pvt James Arthur Pilkerton T/5, 102nd Cav Recon. Died of combat wounds. Age 24.

PFC James Walter Gatton

S/Sgt Thomas Jefferson Owens, Jr Leonardtown. 8th Infantry, 4th Division KIA 31 Aug 1944 Age 19

PVT Thomas I. Sanner 141st INF Killed in Action 16 DEC 1943 Age 19

2 Lt Robert Van Horn Thomas, USAAF. Tall Timbers Co-pilot of C-47 "Picadilly Filly," KIA during Operation Market Garden.C47 42-100801 was shot down by anti-aircraft aircraft above Bladel on September 17, 1944. The C47 crashed into a shed where 3 family members of the Spiethof family and the neighbor took shelter from the violence of war. These 4 people were killed

PFC McGuire Payne Wathen       KIA 29 Sept  1944  France Age 20

Pvt George S. Young Killed in the line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch disaster Pearl Harbor Age 27

2nd Lt Crosby Wyche USAAF Charlotte Hall. MIA According to B3A site: l The twin engine Lockheed RB-34 Lexington departed Canoas AFB, Porto Alegre, for Rio de Janeiro on behalf of the 4th Photographic Squadron 1st Mapping Group. Approaching the destination, the crew encountered poor weather and the airplane went off radar. The wreckage and the crew were never recovered. Lost without trace.
Crew:
1st Lt Rene V. Faucheux Jr.,
2nd Lt Crosby Wyche,
T/Sgt Scott Gillock,
Cpl Walter R. Treadway,
Pfc Hyrum L. Buist.

Adam Bruce Fahnestock

Xavier Sylvester Ennels

Lawrence Donald Fullmer

Avon James Gant, STM1 USN. KIA New Guinea 27 Oct 1943 Age 22

T/5 John Francis Demko - Returned home after the war Died of Wounds at Walter Reed Age 22

PFC Joseph Elsmere Hill KIA 6 Sep 1944 by artillery shell fragments in Belgium advancing toward Germany Age 25

Pvt Francis Pridmore Everhart

Pvt James E Quade Chaptico. 315 INF KIA 4 Jul 1944 Age 19

T5 Willie A. Shubrooks KIA

Pfc Harold M Kennedy. NAS Patuxent River

PFC Harry A "Bunky" Bennett. Leonardtown. KIA Korea 18 Years Old

But radars were not the only Soviet response to this Ferret mission. A flight of four Soviet MiG fighters was scrambled from Kaliningrad (the former Prussian city of Konigsberg, recently renamed by the conquering Soviets) and vectored out over the Baltic to intercept the “Turtle” as it lumbered along the Latvian coast. Such interceptions were not unusual, but this one would prove to be singular.

It was “Soviet Air Defense Day” and, whether this was coincidence or motivational, these Soviet fighters were obviously more aggressive than had been experienced on previous missions. What followed is not entirely clear because of differing versions that emerged as a result of secrecy and propaganda considerations. The Soviets claimed that the aircraft had penetrated Soviet airspace and had fired on the MiGs. The Americans claimed that the aircraft was on an unarmed navigation mission and had remained outside Soviet territory. What is undisputed is that the MiGs shot down the “Turbulent Turtle.” There is even some dispute as to whether all ten crew members perished or that some of them survived and were captured.

From DPAA: DPAA Summary

On April 8, 1950, a PB4Y2 Privateer (bureau number 59645) carrying a crew of ten and stationed at the Naval Air Station, Port Lyautey, Morocco, and assigned temporarily to duty in Weisbaden, Germany, was conducting an operational intelligence mission along the coast of Latvia. During the mission, it was fired upon by Soviet fighter aircraft that had intercepted it south of Liepaja, Latvia. The PB4Y2 caught fire and exploded as it descended toward the Baltic Sea, disappearing into the clouds. U.S. search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful in finding any signs of the crew, although life rafts, seat cushions, and the nose wheel of the aircraft were found. Soviet forces also looked for the plane and its crew; however, archival evidence indicates these searches were also unsuccessful in locating the crew or their remains. The entire crew is still unaccounted for.

Aviation Machinists Mate Second Class Jack William Thomas, who joined the U.S. Navy from Connecticut, served with Patrol Squadron 26. He was a crew member aboard the PB4Y2 when it was shot down. Although the aircraft and its crew were the subjects of extensive search efforts by both American and Soviet military forces, the remains of AMM2 Thomas were never recovered.

Pvt John Richard Clarke 34th INF Killed in NB Line of Duty Feb 1944 Age 19

Leonard A Clarke, USMM. Chief Eng unarmed SS Norvana. MIA 19 Jan 1942 torpedoed by German U-boat off coast of North Carolina

PFC Harrison Dominick Owens 82nd Airborne Division
Born June 22, 1926
Died Berlin, Germany
November 20, 1945 Age 19

Sgt Harvey Jackson Seay Eleventh Air Force

Cpl William Francis Wheeler USMC Killed in Action 1 Nov 1942 Guadacanal Age 21

PFC Joseph Nathaniel Young Killed in the line of duty Camp Davis, NC Age 25

Pvt James Robert Ellis, Bushwood. KIA Korea 17 Years Old

SGT Xavier Waldru Hill Mechanicsville. Died POW 22 Years Old

CPL Louis A Sanders Park Hall. Died POW 82nd Anti-Aircraft Bttn, 2nd Inf. Died POW 31 May 1951. 22 Years Old Remains not recovered.

Pvt James Maurice Scriber Maddux/Bushwood. KIA 26 Dec 1952

S/Sgt Douglas S Stockstill Callaway USMC KIA 24 Sept 1950 Arlington National Cemetery

USMC Lt Col John Brow MV-22 "Osprey" based on Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and temporarily attached to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, crashed near Tucson killing all 19 Marines aboard. The Osprey was part of a two-plane flight conducting operational evaluation. 8 April 2000.

AD1 Jack William Thomas USN MIA 9 Apr 1950 Aircraft "Turbulent Turtle" April 1950 four Soviet La-11 MIG fighters engage and shoot down a US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer over the Baltic Sea. The 10 crewmembers become the First shoot-down casualties of the Cold War

SP4 Francis Matthew Aud Great Mills. KIA 26 Jan 1970

Legacies of Freedom

Pfc Joseph Henry Thompson KIA 6 Jan 1945. Age 21

2Lt Walter W. McCown Jr. USAAF, Bombardier. KIA/MIA 9 Aug 1944 aboard B-24 Liberator 'Big Wheeler Dealer" Buno 42-78374 over Hungary

Pfc John Lenwood Chase KIA 29 Nov 1968 20 Years Old

SSG Joseph Paul Curtis KIA 17 Dec 1970 25 Years Old

SP4 Russell Will Dickens KIA 28 Dec 1967 Years Old

PFC Larry Keith Powell USMC, KIA 07 Feb 1968

S/Sgt James Robert Dorsey, Jr. KIA 26 Apr 1969 Years Old

Capt James Madison Hamrick, Jr. KIA while performing duty of pilot. Vietnam. 25 years old. Married father of two sons.

Cpl James Benedict Heard KIA 27 Feb 1970 20 years old

Pfc William Wayne Lumsden KIA 21 May 1967 (aged 19)

CWO Albert Barthelme, Jr

Names, Faces of Courage & Sacrifice

PFC Clarence Robinson, Jr KIA 27 Feb 1970 20 years old