Beaufort National Cemetery: Difference between revisions

** Private First Class [[Ralph H. Johnson]] (1949–1968), recipient for action in the [[Vietnam War]].

** Captain [[John J. McGinty III]] (1940–2014), recipient for action in the [[Vietnam War]]

** Colonel [[Donald Conroy]] (1921–1998), inspiration for the character Wilbur "Bull" Meachum in ''[[The Great Santini (novel)|The Great Santini]]''.

** [[John N. McLaughlin]] (1918–2002), Marine Corps Lieutenant General, served in three wars and spent three years as [[Prisoners-of-War|POW]]

** Cook Petty Officer 1st Class William Pickney (1915-1976), second African American to be awarded the Navy Coss, for heroism during the Battle of Santa Cruz.  

** Master Sergeant Joseph Simmons, [[Légion d'honneur]] recipient, [[Buffalo Soldier]], [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] veteran.

** General [[Edwin A. Pollock|Edwin Pollock]] (1899–1982)

** Colonel [[Robert Gould Shaw]] (1837–1863), commander of the African-American [[54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment|54th Massachusetts Regiment]], subject of the movie [[Glory (1989 film)|Glory]]<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9t-CQAAQBAJ&dq=robert+shaw+beaufort+national+cemetery&pg=PT40 |title = No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments & Cemeteries of South Carolina|isbn = 9781614232827|last1 = Johnson|first1 = Kristina Dunn|date = 2009-04-06| publisher=Arcadia }}</ref> is likely buried in one of the 3,607 unknown gravesites in the cemetery.

** [[Chuck Taliano]] (1945–2010), USMC [[drill instructor]] featured in the "''We don’t promise you a rose garden''" [[recruitment poster]] during the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=state>{{cite news|first=Patrick|last=Donahue|title=Ex-Marine, S.C. resident on famous poster dies|url=http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/14/1331501/ex-marine-sc-resident-on-famous.html|work=[[The Beaufort Gazette]]|publisher=The State (newspaper)|date=2010-06-14|access-date=2010-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615011537/http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/14/1331501/ex-marine-sc-resident-on-famous.html|archive-date=15 June 2010|url-status = dead}}</ref>

** General [[William G. Thrash]] (1916–2011)  

** Major General [[Reuben Henry Tucker III]] (1911–1970), Commandant of Cadets, The Citadel  1963–68.

** US Army General [[James Grimsley]] (1921–2013)  

** Major General [[Charles Spragins]]

** Ian Ronald Atherton Adamson, Lieutenant of [[Royal Navy]], only one of [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] war dead in [[World War II]].<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2720024/ADAMSON,%20IAN%20RONALD%20ATHERTON CWGC: Ian Ronald Atherton Adamson]</ref>

** Maschinenmaat Gerd Reusell was a crewmember of [[German submarine U-352|U-352]] that died of wounds when it was sunk on May 9, 1942 by USCGC ''[[USCGC Icarus|Icarus]]''.