Terrence Richard Titus, age 32, from Wood County Bowling Green, Ohio .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, June 11, 1965
Death details: The plane he was aboard struck a mountain while returning in severe weather from a mission in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Atlanta Constitution (1965)
William Thurston Jr. Lewis, age 23, from Bowling Green, Ohio, Wood county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, March 26, 1953
Death details: In late March 1953, elements of the 1st Marine Division manned a string of outposts along a 33-mile section of the main line of resistance on the Korean Peninsula, near the present-day Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The 1st Marine Division’s 5th Marine Regiment was responsible for three of these outposts, named Carson, Reno, and Vegas, or collectively “the Nevada Cities Complex.” On March 26, Chinese Communist Forces attacked all three outposts. Although Carson managed to stave off the assault, Reno and Vegas, which were more lightly manned, eventually succumbed to the enemy. Over 1,000 Marines were killed, wounded, or went missing during the attack on the Nevada Cities Complex. Private First Class William Thurston Lewis Jr. joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Ohio and was a member of C Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He went missing in action during the fighting at the Nevada Cities Complex on March 26, 1953. He was never reported to be a prisoner of war, and he was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the conflict’s ceasefire. Today, Private First Class Lewis is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Condia Lynch from Wood County Bowling Green, Ohio .
Parents: Mrs. Fred Yarger
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, June 28, 1942
Death details: On Aug. 18, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S. Army Pvt. Condia Lynch Jr., missing from World War II. Lynch entered the Army from Ohio and served with the Anti-Tank Company of the 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured following the American surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, and forced on the Bataan Death March. He was ultimately interned in the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province, where he died on June 28, 1942. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war who were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Lynch was buried in Common Grave 407 at the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery along with other deceased American POWs. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the American Graves Registration Service examined and successfully identified 17 of the sets of remains from Common Grave 407. The others, which could not be identified at the time, were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial as Unknowns. In 2019, as part of the Cabanatuan Project, the unidentified remains associated with Common Grave 407 were disinterred and sent to a DPAA laboratory for scientific analysis. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of these remains and Lynch.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Sentinel Tribune (1945)