McKeesport 23 + Lee (listed by casualty date)

 

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Lee Thomas is not included in the caption “The McKeesport 23” since his induction into the Army lists him from Elizabeth, PA. As a member of The McKeesport Boys Club, he was the 11th and last killed from the Club. He is listed on the Club’s Memorial & the Wall of Honor. 

The LaRosa Boys & Girls Club 11: 

NORMAN W. JOHNSON, MTCHAEL J. NEMCHICK, JAMES F. BROOKS JR., TYRONE G. BURSE, JAMES E. WEST, GREGORY F. POPOWITZ, CURIS T. GAY, THOMAS J. SWEENEY, LOUIS H. HUFF II, JOHN A. GERMEK JR., LEE D. THOMAS (CLUB MEMBER LISTED ON NATIONAL WALL – ELTZABETH, PA.)

Remainder of the McKeesport 23: 

MICHAEL D. PLISKA, THOMAS J. WINKELVOSS, RAYMOND GIBEL, DAVID L. G. MOSER, JACK C. PLUMB, JAMES R. LONG, TIBOR SOTAK, PATRTCK R. MCNELIS, RICHARD M. ARNOVITZ, KENNETH J. KLINE, DONALD R. DONALDSON, TERRY J. MARTELL, VINCENT E. GALKA

 

A McKeesport Reunion in Vietnam

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 Six McKeesport Marines at Dong-Ha, Vietnam, July, 1967. Standing at left, John Hernandez, “Jimbo” Stewart; kneeling left to right: Paul Maxim, Rickey Abritias, “Mac” McLaughlin, Dennis Stoken