Dawid Pietrek, age 24, from Bensenville, Illinois, Cook county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: G Co, 2D Bn, 7Th Mar, 1St Mar Div, Twentynine Palms, Ca
Date of death: Saturday, June 14, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Farah Province, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Shawn Christopher Edwards, age 20, from Bensenville, Illinois, Cook county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Company, 121St Signal Battalion (1St Id) Apo Ae 09036, Kitzingen, Germany
Date of death: Friday, April 23, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Samarra, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jan Douglas Garringer, age 20, from Bensenville, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: Vance and Evelyn Garringer
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Fenton High (1967)
Date of death: Monday, February 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam
Cemetery: Zion in Bensenville
Source: National Archives, Bensenville Register (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Patrick Robert Curran, age 25, from Bensenville, Illinois, DuPage county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: September 29, 1969
Death details: On April 20, 2011, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Patrick Robert Curran, missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Curran joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Illinois and was a member of Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 242, Marine Air Group 11. On September 29, 1969, he was the bombardier and navigator aboard an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 15569) on an armed reconnaissance mission over Laos. Major Curran’s aircraft went down at some point during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. Immediate search and rescue efforts launched when the Intruder failed to return were unsuccessful. In February 2000, a joint U.S. and Laotian investigative team excavated a site associated with the intruder’s loss, recovering remains that were later identified as those of Maj Curran.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency