Ronald Eugene Schmidt, age 20, from Brookfield, Illinois, Cook county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Lyons Township High (1968)
Date of death: Thursday, May 14, 1970
Death details: Killed when his unit encountered enemy resistance while on patrol in the northern sector of Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1970)
Wayne Steve Zach, age 24, from Brookfield, Illinois, Cook county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Riverside Brookfield High (1963), Chicago Technical College
Date of death: Monday, February 23, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1970)
Harry Arnold Carlsen, age 33, from Brookfield, Illinois, Cook county.
Parents: Mary Amelia Carlsen
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, November 20, 1943
Death details: On June 4, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Technical Sergeant Harry (Horace) Arnold Carlsen, missing from World War II. Technical Sergeant Carlsen entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Oklahoma and served in Company A, 2nd Amphibious Tractor Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. On November 20, 1943, he was killed in action during the Battle of Tarawa, as part of the large-scale assault on the island of Betio. TSgt Carlsen was buried on Betio, but he could not be identified among remains disinterred from the island following the war. In 2013, previously unidentified remains from Betio were analyzed using modern forensic techniques, and TSgt Carlsen was eventually identified from among these remains.
Cemetery: Abraham Lincoln National; remains discovered in 2018
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency