Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Ryan D. Sharp, age 28, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
Date of death: Saturday, December 3, 2011
Death details: Died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany of wounds suffered November 21 at Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jerrick Mcken Petty, age 25, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B 3D Battalion 502D Infantry, Fort Campbell, Kentucky 42223
Date of death: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas Oliver Ahlberg, age 19, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Parents: Darlene B. Pittser
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, May 4, 1970
Source: National Archives, non-hostile death (1970)
Frank Crook Loveland, age 18, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Parents: Orilla Loveland Malone
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Idaho Statesman (1941)
Byron Dalley Mason, age 19, from Ririe, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Parents: Joseph Henry Mason
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives
Leonard Kelsey Chinn from Bonneville County Nampa, Idaho .
Parents: William Chinn
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On July 12, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Master Sergeant Leonard Kelsey Chinn, missing from the Korean War. Master Sergeant Chinn entered the U.S. Army from Idaho and served in D Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on December 1, 1950, as his unit was fighting through a heavily defended Chinese roadblock while retreating from Kunu-ri, North Korea. He was marched to the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley Main Camp Cluster with a large group of prisoners. From there, MSG Chinn was moved to POW Camp 5 at Pyoktong, where he died of malnutrition in late April 1951. He was buried near the camp, but his remains were not among those returned to the U.S. following the war. In 1993, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of several U.S. service members recovered near POW Camp 5, many of which could not be identified at the time. In 2018, U.S. analysts using modern forensic techniques successfully identified MSG Chinn among these remains. Master Sergeant Chinn is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Idaho Statesman (1951)