Richard Steven Gottfried, age 42, from Lake Ozark, Missouri, Multiple county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, Division Support Command (1St Id), Apo Ae 09301
Date of death: Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Tampa, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Joshua Martin Neusche, age 20, from Montreal, Missouri, Camden county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 203Rd Engineer Battalion, Joplin, Missouri
Date of death: Saturday, July 12, 2003
Death details: Homburg, Germany
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
George Meral Rhoadman, age 26, from Camden County Camdenton, Missouri .
Parents: George M. Rhoadman Sr.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, January 18, 1951
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant First Class George Meral Rhoadman Jr., who entered the U.S. Army from Missouri, was a member of the Headquarters and Headquarters Services Company, 2nd Engineers Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, during his unit’s attempt to fight through a heavily defended enemy roadblock near Kunu-ri, North Korea. He was moved to Death Valley, and died there on January 18, 1951. Repatriated prisoners of war reported that he was buried near the camp; however, his remains were not identified among those that have been returned to U.S. custody since the ceasefire. He is still unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant First Class Rhoadman is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Jefferson City Post Tribune (1951)
Gerald Newton Wilson, age 19, from Camden County Macks Creek, Missouri .
Parents: James B. Wilson
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, July 25, 1950
Death details: 2On August 29, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Corporal Gerald Newton Wilson, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Wilson entered the U.S. Army from Missouri and served in F Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He went missing in action on July 25, 1950, during the Battle of Yongdong, though the specific details of his loss are unknown. His remains were recovered by a Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, but they could not be identified at the time, and CPL Wilson was interred as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2018, historical analysis prompted his remains to be disinterred and analyzed with modern forensic tools. DPAA scientists used laboratory, dental, and anthropological analyses as well as circumstantial evidence to identify CPL Wilson. Corporal Wilson 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, Lebanon Daily Record (1950)
Floyd Leroy Layman from Camdenton, Missouri, Camden county.
Parents: Claude E. Layman
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, September 11, 1943
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker