Saul Fabian Gonzalez, age 26, from Allegan County Pullman, Michigan .
Service era: Post war on terror
Date of death: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Death details: Died in Erbil, Iraq after a non-combat incident.
Source: Department of Defense
Mark H. Schoonhoven, age 38, from Plainwell, Michigan, Allegan county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 32nd Transportation Company, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado.
Date of death: Sunday, January 20, 2013
Death details: Died at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston from wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device on December 15, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas C. Allers, age 23, from Plainwell, Michigan, Allegan county.
Parents: Denise and Lance Allers
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Plainwell High (2006)
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Date of death: Monday, May 23, 2011
Death details: Died in Kunar Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Killed were Staff Sgt. Kristofferson B. Lorenzo, Pfc. William S. Blevins, Pvt. Andrew M. Krippner, Pvt. Thomas C. Allers.
Cemetery: Fort Custer National
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Phillip Allen Wilson, age 21, from Plainwell, Michigan, Allegan county.
Parents: Woodrow C. Wilson
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, December 16, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
John Stanley Baxter, age 29, from Plainwell, Michigan, Allegan county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Company A, 508th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division; Purple Heart
Spouse: Jacqueline Hamilton Baxter (married 1964)
Child: Kenneth M. Baxter
Date of death: Tuesday, August 27, 1968
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Fort Donelson National
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Clarksville Leaf Chronicle (1968)
Roy Warner Jr. Chamberlain, age 24, from Wayland, Michigan, Allegan county.
Parents: Mary and Roy Chamberlain
Spouse: Mary Chamberlain
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Thursday, March 23, 1967
Death details: Killed by small arms fire, Kontum Province
Cemetery: Wyoming Cemetery, Grandville
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association
William Leslie Tromp, age 24, from Allegan County Fennville, Michigan .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, April 17, 1966
Death details: Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) William Leslie Tromp, who joined the U.S. Navy from Michigan, was a member of Attack Squadron 115. On April 17, 1966, he piloted a single-seat A-1H Skyraider (bureau number 135398, call sign “Arab 511”) that launched from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63) as the second of two aircraft on a night coastal armed reconnaissance mission over enemy targets in North Vietnam. After delivering their ordnance to the target, located at the mouth of a river southeast of Ha Tinh, the flight leader received a warning that there had been a surface-to-air missile (SAM) launch in the area. The flight leader then radioed LTJG Tromp to advise him to lose altitude and turn on his lights, and LTJG Tromp responded but his transmission was cut short. He made no further contact and was not seen again, and searches of the area found no sign of LTJG Tromp or his aircraft. Subsequent to the incident, and while carried in the status of missing in action, the U.S. Navy promoted LTJG Tromp to the rank of Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). Today, LCDR Tromp is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Kalamazoo Gazette (1966), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Bozy Gerald, age 47, from Allegan County Fennville, Michigan .
Spouse: Married
Children: John, 6
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 1st Infantry Division
Date of death: Monday, April 11, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1966)
Phillip John VanderWeg, age 31, from Allegan County Wayland, Michigan .
Spouse: Johanna VanderWeg
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, November 27, 1965
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, Grand Rapids Press (1966), Associated Press (1965), News and Observer (1965)
Kenneth Monroe Hyett, age 21, from Allegan County Allegan, Michigan .
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Allegan High (1962)
Date of death: Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Herald Press (1965)