William Elliott Allmon, age 25, from Ardmore, Oklahoma, Carter county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company E, 1St Battalion, 64Th Armor, 2 Bct, Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Saturday, April 12, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Micheal Eugene Phillips, age 19, from Ardmore, Oklahoma, Carter county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 502D Infantry, 2 Bct, Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Forrest Clifford Childs, age 18, from Ardmore, Oklahoma, Sulphur county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, September 10, 1970
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, The Daily Oklahoman (1970)
Jimmie Ferguson Debord, age 26, from Carter County Ardmore, Oklahoma .
Spouse: Bessie D. DeBord
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 30, 1950
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant First Class Jimmie F. DeBord, who joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma, was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action during the fighting withdrawal from Kunu-ri, though specific details regarding his loss are unknown. He was never reported to be alive in enemy hands, and his remains could not be located or identified after the war. Today, Sergeant First Class DeBord is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Shawnee News Star (1954)
Billy Turner, age 20, from Ardmore, Oklahoma, Carter county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: December 7, 1941
Death details: On October 1, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman First Class Billy N. Turner, missing from World War II.
Seaman First Class Turner entered the U.S. Navy from Oklahoma and served on the USS Oklahoma. On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when attacked by Japanese forces. The Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine sailors and Marines were lost, including SEA1 Turner. In the days, months, and years following the attack, remains of men lost aboard the Oklahoma were recovered. Those remains that could not be identified were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, Hawaii (NMCP). In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to exhume unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma and reexamine them using advances in forensic technology. From June through November 2015, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel, in cooperation with cemetery officials, exhumed all remaining caskets associated with the USS Oklahoma at the NMCP and transferred the remains to DPAA laboratories. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of SEA1 Turner.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Billy Turner, age 20, from Carter County Ardmore, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: On October 1, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman First Class Billy N. Turner, missing from World War II. Seaman First Class Turner entered the U.S. Navy from Oklahoma and served on the USS Oklahoma. On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when attacked by Japanese forces. The Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine sailors and Marines were lost, including SEA1 Turner. In the days, months, and years following the attack, remains of men lost aboard the Oklahoma were recovered. Those remains that could not be identified were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, Hawaii (NMCP). In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to exhume unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma and reexamine them using advances in forensic technology. From June through November 2015, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel, in cooperation with cemetery officials, exhumed all remaining caskets associated with the USS Oklahoma at the NMCP and transferred the remains to DPAA laboratories. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of SEA1 Turner.
Source: National Archives
Billy Turner, age 20, from Carter County Ardmore, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: On October 1, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman First Class Billy N. Turner, missing from World War II. Seaman First Class Turner entered the U.S. Navy from Oklahoma and served on the USS Oklahoma. On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when attacked by Japanese forces. The Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine sailors and Marines were lost, including SEA1 Turner. In the days, months, and years following the attack, remains of men lost aboard the Oklahoma were recovered. Those remains that could not be identified were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, Hawaii (NMCP). In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to exhume unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma and reexamine them using advances in forensic technology. From June through November 2015, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel, in cooperation with cemetery officials, exhumed all remaining caskets associated with the USS Oklahoma at the NMCP and transferred the remains to DPAA laboratories. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of SEA1 Turner.
Source: National Archives