A property me struck in , Vietnam , a , a , a youth, his wife, and his expecting parents on his first police as a Sea in the fall of 1967.
A fortnight later, another me killed a , Rock Hill , man with 10 relatives back home and a year left on his tour of duty. A former Clover all-conference player passed away the following year after leaving college early for the Marines.
Next month marked 50 years since , Saigon , fell,  , ending the Vietnam War , two decades after American soldiers withdrew. The names of the more than 58, 000 Americans who died during that conflict have been read loudly or searched for on national marble monuments on Memorial Day, the most likely year since, if not every year.
The Herald wants to go behind the native names this season.
40 people who left for and remain in Vietnam can be found in the lives of historical information reports, regional memorials, and state archives. None of them returned from their last missions.
Two people are related to Catawba Nation leaders, according to those spellings. One belongs to a Portuguese. Some people graduated from segregated institutions that are no longer in operation. One brand belonged to a World War II and Korean War veteran who went back to fight in , Vietnam.
Four of the people killed in Vietnam and Vietnam were between 18 and 29 years older. The oldest was 47. The death tolls from , Vietnam , were on ordinary 23 years old. Those people left behind at least 13 women and more than 20 babies. The majority of them even left their children behind, and many others also left their relatives in pain.
Military documents properly table soldiers from places where they enlisted, yet if they grew up or lived here. Some media reports are completer than another. The next records are compiled by our evaluation of Herald library protection, and confirmed with options like the , Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
More than three hundred soldiers who lost their lives while serving their country are featured below on Memorial Day and Memorial Day.
The fallen of York County from the Vietnam War
Adams, Jesse
Army Pfc. Jesse Adams, a pilot, earned his Parachutist Badge after a three-week flying course at Fort Benning, Georgia, in the summer of 1968. He was killed in , Vietnam , the following November at 19. The Emmett Scott High , a graduate from Rock Hill , left behind a woman, Kathryn, and a , a boy who was serving in the Army while Adams was absent.
Vincent Norvell Banks
Pfc.  , Vincent Banks  , worked at , Discount Supermarket , on , Main Street , in , Rock Hill , for eight months after graduating , Emmett Scott High, then joined the , Marines , in , May 1968. Before he was killed in , February 1969 , at the age of 20, the local of Rock Hill spent three months in Vietnam . He’s buried in , Arlington National Cemetery.
Roy Grant Barnette
Lance Cpl. Prior to his death in , January 1969 , he had been a member of the , Marines , for eight weeks. He had trained at , Parris Island , and was a member of the , Vietnam, at age 21. The Sharon local, one of seven babies in his household, had trained in concrete at , York County Technical Education Center , before volunteering for the company.
Roger Dale Bell
Pfc. Roger Bell finished his M-14 weapons teaching at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in soon 1967 with an professional standing. The Clover local was assigned to army work. Bell, a former member of the National Guard who volunteered for the Army, died in 1968 at the age of 24 leaving behind two kids in Charlotte.
Sam Henry Boyd
Army Cpl.  , Sam Boyd , received that rate subsequently, after he was killed in , May 1968. He was twenty years old. The soldier was a , Fort Mill High , graduate who had worked in construction therefore enlisted in 1967 for a three-year word, where he’d planned to continue with flying education. Before his death, Boyd was just a quarter away in Vietnam.
James Steven Camp
Pfc.  , James Camp , was an all-conference player at , Clover High , who left halfway through his freshman season for the , Marines. He left education at , Parris Island , in , May 1966 , and later moved on to Vietnam. He was killed during a combative behavior in , January 1967, at age 19.
James Alvin Carpenter
Some defense information list , Rock Hill , as the residence of Pfc. James Carpenter, who passed away in March 1969 at the age of 18, was pronounced dead. The Herald reported at the time of his death that the Marine lived in Chester, where he was survived by a woman, Sharon, and both kids. He was reportedly residing in , Rock Hill, for some time, according to earlier studies.
Howard Chisholm
A group representative and former football star at Emmett Scott High in Rock Hill, Army Spc.  , Howard Chisholm , was killed engaging an opponent basement in , December 1966. He was 22 years old and had been scheduled to return apartment in January. He was survived by his kids, seven sons and four daughters.
George Lee Cobb
This , Memorial Day , signs 57 years since the demise of Army Pfc. Â George Cobb  , The Roosevelt High , graduate from Clover was drafted in the fall of 1967, spent nine months in troops training in , Louisiana , and went to , Vietnam , in , March 1968. His death on May 26, 1968, left behind his spouse, Dorothy, a child, and two stepsons.
Johnny Phillip Costner
A , York High; Army Sgt; college raised by his aunt and uncle.  , Phillip Costner , spent 13 times serving in , Germany,  , Korea , and , Vietnam. He passed away in November 1970 at the age of 31. Allen was survived by his parents and a mother, his foster mother, a sibling, two daughters, four half sons and four develop siblings.
Robert Burch Eldridge
Army 1st Ltn. Prior to his licensing, Robert Eldridge graduated from Rock Hill High School and the University of South Carolina. Hospitalized in , Vietnam , and evacuated to , Walter Reed Memorial Hospital, he died in , November 1969 , at 26. Eldridge, who earned nine belated honors, was survived by his families and both mothers.
Charles Reginald Ferrell
Two decades after surviving a Christmas Eve wreck in , North Carolina that claimed the life of a neighborhood teenager, Army Pfc.  , Charles Ferrell , was killed at age 20 while patrolling a demilitarized area in , Vietnam. His death occurred two years after his two-year service there and eight months after his death in the Army flying department.
Earl William Foster, Jr.
Emmett Scott High and Friendship Junior College graduate Army Spc.  , Earl Foster, Jr. earned a Purple Heart before his , January 1966 , drowning in , Vietnam. He engaged in three battles that in five weeks. Foster, 26, left behind a woman,  , Ida Marie, and a big extended family. Arlington National Cemetery is where he was buried.
Robert Saye Good, Jr.
Army Spc.  , Robert Good, Jr. was 20 years older when he was killed in , Vietnam. Good was buried at Mt. York and was from , York. Zion AME Church. At the time of his March 1971 death, he had five daughters and one brother. Good even was survived by his kids.
Charles Melvin Goude
Army Cpl. Charles Goude was 30 years old when he was killed in Vietnam’s Vietnam in November 1966. Goude was a , Lancaster , local but lived in , Fort Mill , before his company. He was employed at Springs Mills in city, and he is buried at Unity Presbyterian Church and Cemetery. He left a father, mother and five relatives.
Richard Lamar Hannon
Military information list Army Cpl. Richard Hannon was a personal first class at his death at the age of 22, despite his , April 1969 , being a personal first class. Some information list him from , Rock Hill. According to reports from the day, Hannon and his family Mary lived in Clover. They had a son and daughter, with lengthy family in the Clover and , Belmont, North Carolina, locations.
Abraham Harris
Army Pvt. Abraham Harris, 22, passed away in October 1967.  , The Jefferson High , college from , York , was one of 13 relatives — seven sisters and five boys. Harris was the first of three native killed in Vietnam’s and York’s wars. The soldier who served 10 times that is honored on , York , and , Fairfield county , monuments.
Carl Elbert Harris
Army Sgt. Carl Harris, the son and grandson of Catawba Nation rulers, was the first victim to fall under the radar in Vietnam. Harris was killed by a rocket in , November 1965 , at age 28. He left a child, two grandchildren, and his wife, Ann. His label on the , Vietnam , Veterans Memorial , appears in the Mel Gibson movie ,” We Were Soldiers”.
Jerry Donald Helms
Army Sgt. A fortnight after his injury, Jerry Helms  passed away in a , Vietnam , doctor. He was 23. The Fort Mill High graduate wed his wife Sharon the summertime before. Helms enlisted in 1967. The plane entry gunner was awarded the Air Medal for performing more than 25 operations each month to aid ground forces.
Larry Keith Henson
Marines Pfc is listed in military information.  , Larry Henson , from , Rock Hill, but media reports of his , May 1969 , dying record him from Clover. Henson attended Rock Hill High School. Henson was 18 and served three decades in , Vietnam. Henson was the second Clover fatality in a span of four days, according to media reports.
James Montgomery Johnstone
Army Capt. discovered that his aircraft had been shot down and that he was missing a fortnight later. James Johnstone’s home was notified of his , November 1966 , suicide. Soldier, 28, trained at Fort Knox, Fort Mill, and Fort Mill. Around the time he earned his pilot’s level, family Jan gave birth to twins — a teenager and a woman.
Jerry Jones
Army Pvt. Jerry Jones, who is referred to as” Jerry Jones,” was born in” Rock Hill” and graduated from” Emmett Scott High” in”. Military information list him from , New York. Jones, time 21, passed away in September 1968, having a nephew and six daughters. In Army connections nearly a year before his suicide, Jones is buried at , Arlington National Cemetery.
Raymond Ervin Long
Lance Cpl. In 1966, Raymond Long enlisted in the Marines  . He was in , Vietnam , only 13 times before a property mine caused his death in , October 1967. Much was 19 when he started his second guard.  , The Fort Mill High , grad left behind a woman, Judy, who was expecting their second child to reach that December.
John Davis McCarty
Army Spc. John McCarty passed away in January 1967, according to wikipedia. Born in , Panama , to Maj. and Mrs.  , Paul McCarty, he lived with the community in , Rock Hill. John McCarty, age 20, graduated from Kershaw County’s schools and afterwards relocated to Florida. His detailed house in military data is , Tampa, Florida, where he is buried. He was survived by a mother in Rock Hill and a great-grandmother in Rock Hill.
Bennie Eugene McCorkle
AÂ Fort Mill; local who spent the majority of his life it; Army Spc.  , Gene McCorkle , moved to , Tennessee , with his family, Ruby, in 1963. McCorkle enlisted that year and traveled to Vietnam in December 1967. He was killed the following February at time 26. McCorkle was one of two Fort Mill men who were killed the same week.
Charles Elvin McDowell
Staff Sgt.  , Charles McDowell , enlisted in the Army alongside seven other , Rock Hill , people in , October 1960. He was killed in February 1968 at the same time as he was killed in Vietnam. The Herald had no information at the time and few in the years since, but the , Wall of Faces , job by the , Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund , present McDowell at age 28 at the time of his demise.
Jesse J. Miller
A property plant killed Army Pfc. Jesse Miller, time 23, passed away in January 1966. His , Rock Hill , mother, Frances, who raised him, learned Miller died in a field road clearing activity via message. In 1964, the Winthrop house worker and Emmett Scott graduate was drafted. He had five weeks left on his company.
Charles Lewis Morgan
Lance Cpl. Charles Morgan was 18 years old when he was killed in an blast in Vietnam. Morgan attended , Rock Hill High , and worked at an industrial flower before joining the , Marines. Eight days have fallen on May 31, 1968, on Memorial Day, and eight days more recently. It did again in two decades.
Freddie Joe Phifer
Lance Cpl. Two days before Christmas, Freddie Phifer was born. And at 19 times ancient he died in , Vietnam , less than two weeks before Christmas 1967. He was shot while a Vietnam guard, according to the news. The , Fort Mill , local is buried in village at the , Unity Presbyterian Church , tomb.
Norman Lee Plemmons
Army Sgt. Norman Plemmons passed away in May 1969 at the age of 82 when two aircraft collided near Saigon. He was 22. The Herald reported that he died as a Clover person despite defense information of his five-year company stating that he was from his hometown of Mount Holly, North Carolina. Plemmons and his family are buried on a home narrative in Clover.
Johnnie Wylie Potts
Army Pfc. Johnnie Potts graduated from George Fish High School in Fort Mill, graduated from a business school, and then attended an interior designing school. He was drafted into company two centuries before his , February 1968 , dying in , Vietnam. At age 24, Potts. He and his family Betty lived in the Paradise town with their two children.
Clyde A. Rhinehart
Army Cpl. Clyde Rhinehart, who was hospitalized for physical injuries in Vietnam and Japan for five decades, spent five months there in July 1967. He returned to conflict in December. Rhinehart was killed by an army rocket two months later. He was 19 years older.
Lawrence Edward Scott
Defense information list Army Spc. Lawrence Scott, from Fort Mill, was mentioned in the news after his death at the age of 25 was listed as a , Rock Hill, property, in December 1970. No other , Vietnam , victim occurred after that time among support people from , Rock Hill. One of seven relatives, Scott served seven years in the armed forces.
Garold Ray Simmers
Pfc., the granddaughter of a Catawba key.  , Garold Simmers , enlisted in the , Marines , in the summer of 1968. Prior to his death on February 6, 1969, due to small arms fire on a search-and-clear vision, a graduate and former city mill worker spent two weeks in Vietnam. Harris was 20.
Albert Ward Smarr, Jr.
Army Col.  , Albert Smarr, Jr. fought in World War II and the Korean War before becoming the last , York County , warrior to kill in , Vietnam. The local of Hickory Grove, Arlington National Cemetery, died in a , February 1972 , plane crash at the age of 47. His military profession earned several awards and teaching jobs.
David Wesley Smith
The child of Methodist preachers in , Brazil , and a , Pfeiffer College , sport striking, Army 1st. Ltn.  , David Smith , followed a school buddy house to , Fort Mill. Smith was exempt from the document because of his membership. But at 25 he led a battalion near the Thai border where he was killed the evening before , Thanksgiving , 1968.
Springs, Andrew
Pfc. Springs, Andrew was in the Marines about a year and in Vietnam for six weeks when he was killed by rifle fire in March 1968. The Rock Hill Marine, 20, was the oldest of 10 children who all still lived at the time with his mother, Mary, a Winthrop College maid.
Lindell Ray Stegall
Pfc. When Lindell Stegall was killed in April 1967, he was 18 years older.  , The Fort Mill High , college and Marine was about a year out of high class, where he was an officer in Future Farmers of America, soccer team director for three years and a scholar school bus driver.
David Tucker
Army Spc. When the Rock Hill, Rock Hill, and David Tucker were a month away from the end of their tour of duty, a land mine struck them in November 1967, killing them. He was 20. Tucker had seven daughters and three boys, with the exception of one of them still residing at home. Tucker graduated from , Emmett Scott High.
Libert James Weldon Jr.
The home of Army Pfc. When a travel plane crashed in December 1967, Libert Weldon Jr. discovered he was missing. Within weeks announcement came that he had no survived. Before joining the Army, Weldon, 26, attended Emmett Scott High and worked in North Carolina and the Netherlands. He was one of 11 kids.
Tracy Kimball, a journalist for The Herald’s photos, contributed to this statement.
If you have additional information to share on these men or any others from , York County , who may have been killed in , Vietnam, email , ]email , protected].
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