David Scott Perry, age 36, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 649Th Military Police Company, Fresno, California
Date of death: Monday, August 11, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas M. Diffenbaugh, age 34, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Saturday, January 5, 1991
Death details: Died non-battle. While driving home from work during blackout conditions, he went to pass a car and was hit head-on by an armored vehicle that killed him instantly.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, U.S. Marines
Alan Sherman Goff, age 19, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, July 6, 1971
Death details: Killed in Southeast Asia
Source: National Archives, Napa Valley Register (1971)
Raymond Hugh Apellido, age 21, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, September 20, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
Gary Lyn Giles, age 23, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Spouse: Vera M. Giles
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 2, 1970
Death details: Died from natural causes in Southeast Asia
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
Douglas Ernest Hobbs, age 22, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 16, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
Jimmy Carrillo, age 21, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 10, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Donald Bruce Smith, age 20, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, April 8, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
Frank Martin Baca, age 20, from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Parents: Julian Baca
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, February 27, 1970
Death details: Died from natural causes
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
James Burton Mills from Bakersfield, California, Kern county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, September 21, 1966
Death details: On August 20, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) accounted for Commander James Burton Mills, missing from the Vietnam War.
Commander Mills, who joined the U.S. Navy from California, served with Fighter Squadron 21, embarked aboard the USS Coral Sea (CV-43). On September 21, 1966, he was the flight officer aboard an F-4 Phantom (bureau number 152973) when it launched from the Coral Sea as the lead of two aircraft on a night armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. Shortly after completing its bombing run, this Phantom crashed into the South China Sea. CDR Mills was killed in the incident, but his remains were not recovered at the time. In 2011, excavations in the South China Sea found an underwater crash site off the coast of Quynh Phuong Village, which was later associated with CDR Mills’ missing Phantom. In 2018, remains recovered from the wreckage was identified as those of CDR Mills.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency