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Records of Military Personnel
Who Died as a Result of Hostilities
During the Korean War
For Newton County, Missouri

Transcribed by: Lynn Tooley


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Records of Military Personnel Who Died as a Result of Hostilities During the Korean War, documenting the period January 1, 1950 - February 7, 1957.

This series contains selected descriptive data about U.S. military personnel who died by hostile means (i.e. battle deaths) as a result of combat duty in the Korean War. The data were usually extracted from Department of Defense Form 1300 (Report of Casualty) as well as from each of the four military services of the Department of Defense. The variables available from each casualty record include: Military Service Branch, Country of Casualty (always Korea), Casualty Group, File Reference Number, Name of Casualty, Processing Date, Service Number, Military Grade or Rank, Pay Grade, Date of Casualty, Service Component, Home of Record, Birth Date, Cause of Casualty, Aircraft Involvement(air/non-air casualty), Race, Sex, and Citizenship. The majority of the records have no meaningful data in the "cause of casualty" or "air/non- air casualty" variable. The series lists as the home of record the county for those casualties in the Army and lists as the home of record the city, town, or municipality and county for those casualties in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.


Military Service
Branch
Name of CasualtyService
Number
Date Died
or
Declared Dead
Home of Record
City/Town
CountyStateBirth Date
Year
Race
U S ARMY BOWMAN HERBERT L 1338435 11/6/1950 - NEWTON Missouri 18 Caucasian
U S ARMY DECKER DELMAS G 17241373 3/16/1951 - NEWTON Missouri 30 Caucasian
U S ARMY ROLEK ALEX 6902514 6/30/1952 - NEWTON Missouri 16 Caucasian
U S ARMY WRIGHT WILLIAM H 17248074 11/28/1950 - NEWTON Missouri 27 Caucasian
U S MARINE CORPS GAINES JACK DEE 308970 11/2/1950 JOPLIN NEWTON Missouri 22 Caucasian
U S MARINE CORPS JOHNSON DAVID LEE 1191577 10/27/1952 JOPLIN NEWTON Missouri 33 Caucasian
U S MARINE CORPS FERGUSON CHARLES G 1191496 3/26/1953 NEOSHO NEWTON Missouri 33 Caucasian