LIEUTENANT ROBERT RAYMOND BRETT, U.S. NAVY

DOB/DOD: January 3, 1936 (Morton, PA) – February 22, 1968; 32 years oldRELIGION: Roman CatholicMARITAL STATUS: UnmarriedCOLLEGE: Catholic University, and was ordained in the Marist order in 1962SERVICE NUMBER: 722 522ENLISTMENT: June 26, 1967, in Lafayette, LouisianaNAVY RATE: 4105 = Staff Corps – Chaplain (Reserve)UNIT: Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rdContinue reading “LIEUTENANT ROBERT RAYMOND BRETT, U.S. NAVY”

LIEUTENANT COLONEL DON LAVERNE BARTLEY, SR., U.S. ARMY

DOB/DOD: July 27, 1932 (Pikeville, KY) – June 8, 1969; 36 years oldRELIGION: PresbyterianMARITAL STATUS: Married Kathleen Stewart Bartley [later, Brown] (1930-2024), on June 21, 1952, in Kanawha County, West Virginia.CHILDREN: One son, Don L., Jr. (1953-). One daughter, Sharon L. Bartley Patterson (1955-).COLLEGE: BA from Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, inContinue reading “LIEUTENANT COLONEL DON LAVERNE BARTLEY, SR., U.S. ARMY”

MAJOR WILLIAM JOSEPH BARRAGY; U.S. ARMY

DOB/DOD: October 13, 1923 (Kansas City, MO) – May 4, 1966; 42 years oldRELIGION: Roman CatholicMARITAL STATUS: UnmarriedCOLLEGE: Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. He was ordained on May 22, 1948, at Loras. He was the second priest from the Archdiocese of Dubuque to die during wartime. A generation earlier,Continue reading “MAJOR WILLIAM JOSEPH BARRAGY; U.S. ARMY”