Gregory Ronald Goodrich, age 37, from Bartonville, Illinois, Peoria county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 724Th Transportation Company, Bartonville
Date of death: Friday, April 9, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Route Cardinal, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James Craig Jenkel from Peoria County Bartonville, Illinois .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On February 5, 1951, Allied forces in Korea launched an offensive against North Korean and Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) north of Wonju. Republic of Korea units and the 38th Infantry Regiment and supporting artillery units, including the 15th and 503rd Field Artillery Battalions, and the 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery and Automatic Weapons Battalion, initially met light resistance on their drive to the north. On February 11, the CCF launched an aggressive counteroffensive that caused the Allies to withdraw back southward. However, the CCF had established a series of roadblocks on the road to the south, forcing the Allies to fight their way back to friendly lines. Sergeant James Craig Jenkel entered the U.S. Army from Illinois and was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken as a prisoner of war (POW) by enemy forces during the Regiment’s fighting withdrawal and transferred north to the Suan Bean POW camp, where he died in mid to late April 1951. The details of his death and burial location are unknown. U.S. investigators have not been able to access the area to search for his grave site and he has not been associated with any remains later returned to U.S. custody. Today, Sergeant Jenkel 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, Saint Louis Gobe Democrat (1951)