Roger Frederic Newkirk (1916-1944)

Birth: 9 September 1916 Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois

Death: 8 November 1944 France

Burial: Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Saint-Avold, Departement de la Moselle, Lorraine, France

Veteran of: World War II

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Kenneth Wayne Newkirk (1923-1944)

Birth: 17 July 1923 Mount Washington, Jackson County, Missouri

Death: 31 December 1944 near Hamburg, Germany

Burial: Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherland

Veteran of: World War II

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James Edward Newkirk (1948–1967)

Last Updated: 6 February 2021

Birth: 26 September 1948
Pensacola, Escambia, Florida

Death: 29 July 1967
aboard the USS Forrestal, off the coast of Vietnam

Veteran of: Vietnam War – KIA

PID: M2ZD-63C  – Service Number: 9186879

Find-a-Grave #: 53569942

Died aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, off the coast of Vietnam, as a result of a misfire of a Zuni rocket explosion on the flight deck, along with his step-father Calvin Daniel Howison.

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