Rove Wood.
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Saturday, April 20, 1929
Death details: Battery B, 55th Coasst Artillery
Cemetery: Killwed in the explosion of a 155 milemeter gun during target practice at Fort Kamehameha on Oahu Island, Hawaii.
Source: Columbia Record (1929)
Edward W. Sawickas.
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Friday, March 8, 1929
Death details: Shot and killed by military police at Fort Sill, Oklahoma after the other soldier said Sawickas thre a rock at him and started to throw another.
Source: Oklahoma News (1929)
Niceforo Villereal, age 29,.
Parents: Virginia Villereal
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)
Puanta Cochabainba from Bolivia.
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)
Arthur W. Hardesty, age 24, from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, Bullitt county.
Parents: J.W. Howard
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)
Deaner F. McClusky, age 19, from Placid, Texas, McCulloch county.
Parents: Martha McClusky
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)
Irvin Self, age 23, from Victor, Texas, Victoria county.
Parents: Lulu Self
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)
George Gunderson, age 24,.
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Tuesday, July 3, 1928
Death details: Engineer regiment at Fort Scott, San Francisco
Cemetery: Killed in a motorcylce accident on Ventura Boulevard near Los Angeles.
Source: Modesto Bee (1928)
Hugo Walter Paap from Chicago, Illinois, Cook county.
Service era: Early 1900s
Military history: Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Barrancas near Pensacola, Florida
Date of death: Wednesday, July 19, 1922
Death details: Fatally wounded when the recoil piston rod of a 3-inch gun broke and caused the breech to be thrown back, striking him in the stomach.
Source: New York Herald (1922)
David Marksbury.
Service era: Early 1900s
Date of death: Friday, May 26, 1916
Death details: Killed near Namiquipa, Mexico
Source: New York Evening Post (1916)