2011 FCM Passings
Lt. Cmdr. Edward James Broms Jr.
Cmdr Bromes, was a pilot killed in action during the Vietnam War -
- his remains have been positively ID'd and confirmed.
Broms was shot down over Vietnam on Aug. 1, '68, but was listed as missing in action until '75 when the government declared him dead, although his body had not been recovered.
In '93, remains of missing Americans were found at a crash site in Vietnam.
In '95, Broms’ mother, June Broms McCaskey, was notified that, based on evidence found at that scene,
her son had been killed in action.
Positive ID of Broms’ remains was not announced until on Sept 12,'11 - 36 yrs after his plane went down.
Broms was an honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in '65,
being commissioned as an ensign. His plane went down in HaTink Province of North Vietnam,
after flying from the USS Intrepid in the Gulf of Tonkin.
After he was declared dead in '75, a memorial service was held
with a headstone erected in his memory. Posted Dec 14, '11
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Ernest H. Haueisen - December 14, '11
Robert Cox - December 13, '11
William E. (Bill) Hilton Jr. - December 3, '11
William Patrick Dixon - November 30, '11
John 'Jack' Gentry - November 26, '11
James L. "Jim" Hoffman - November 24, '11
James P. Fogarty - November 24, '11
Bernard Shaw - November 16, '11
William E. "Bill" Goffinet - November 8, '11
Robert E Milling - November 7, '11
Melvin Knoche - November 7, '11
Harry G. Clark - October 29, '11
Willis Gene Diosi - October 28, '11
James Wilford Brown - October 28, '11
William E. Clifford - October 26 '11
Charles Gene Bumgardner - October 24, '11
James John Kennedy- October 22, '11
Arthur Marmitt - October 21, '11
Arthur L. Marmitt - October 21, '11
Jack Loren Norton - October 20, '11
Monte B. Jordan - October 17 '11
George Max Stammerjohann - October 17, '11
Richard J. Coates - October 11, '11
Ambrose A. Dzanis - October 04 '11
Earl D. Cagle, - September 17, '11
Ralph F. McCann - September 14, '11
Henry M. Medina - September 13, '11
Robert 'Bob' Joseph Scattoloni - September 6, '11
Rodolfo John Salinas - August 29, '11
John Leon Burtwick - Posted Aug 25, 2011
Lewis H. Watson - August 24, '11
Edward James 'Jim' Thompson - August 22, '11
Pat Henagen - August 20, '11
Louis "Jack" Allen - August 18, '11
William Douglas Roser - August 17, '11
Donald Robert Oman - August 8, '11
Eugene Poole 'Doc" Johnson - August 2 '11
Steve Crawford - July 30, '11
Albert Henry Vito, Jr. - July 28 '11
Robert E. Dovelstein - July 17, '11
Marvin Nicholson Hunt - July 4, 11
John K. Ryder - July 2, '11
Jack 'Botts' Alexander - July 1, '11
J.L. Moreland - June 28, '11
James M Rettenmeyer - June 17, '11
James W. Montague, Jr. - June 14, '11
Glen R. (Dick) Bieber - June 12, '11
Robert 'Bob' Williams - June 2, '11
John Thomas Finnerty, Jr. - May 31, '11
Billy Joe Childers - May 30, '11
Thomas S. Bryant - May 11, '11
Alfred Reginald Walter OBrian - March 24, '11
Robert W. Larkin, Sr. - March 19, '11
Richard J. DiLaurenzo - March 15, '11
Charles H. Vincenz - March 14, '11
Richard “Dick” Ward - Feb 21, '11
James Henry Rusk - Feb 14, '11
Roland J. Hebert - Feb 14, '11
Allan S. White - Feb 9, '11
Carl Raymond Albright - January 13, '11
Donald J. Mate - January 7, '11
Gordon Ralph Woody, Jr. - January 6, '11
Late 2010 notifications follow:
Bernard B. Klein - Posted December 31, '10
Ralph Syroney - Posted December 27, '10
...FCM Gene Mohler, and wife Jean, were kind enough to submit the following:
"Gentlemen, this FCM may not have had bio relatives that could be found; however,
we assume that his Intrepid FCM family would want to announce his passing
Dan Birkenstock - December 19, '10
Donald Founds - December 14, '10
John Morgan - Posted December '10
Robert S. Stone - November 15, '10
James Robert Myers - November 6 '10
Warren W. Seekell - November 6, '10
John K. Beling - November 5, '10
James Thomas Cuddy - September 6, '10
John "Bill" Hendricks - July 3, '10
Tom Keenan - June, '10
Richard A. Zimmer - April 19 '10
C. Thomas Stone - January 3, '10
Let Us Not Forget Those Who Have Gone Before Us