Rivera Eric Giovani Palacios, age 21, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 18Th Infantry, Schweinfurt, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Legacy
Thomas Andrew Guenther, age 19, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic county.
Parents: James A. Guenther
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, February 14, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Fort Worth Star Telegram (1970)
Arthur Edward Jr. Bader from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: November 30, 1968
Death details: On February 1, 1990, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Arthur Edward Bader Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Sergeant First Class Bader entered the U.S. Army from New Jersey and served with the 5th Special Forces Group. On November 30, 1968, he was a passenger aboard a CH-34 Choctaw (tail number 144653) when it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire over Laos, and crashed and exploded in Savannakhet Province, killing SFC Bader. The heavy enemy presence around the loss area prevented the recovery of SFC Bader’s remains at the time. In 1989, a joint U.S./Laotian search team excavated the crash site and recovered human remains; in 1990, U.S. investigators were able to identify SFC Bader from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency