Juana Navarroarellano, age 24, from Ceres, California, Stanislaus county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 9Th Esb, 3D Mlg, (1St Mlg, I Mef Fwd), Okinawa, Japan
Date of death: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Al Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brian Kent McGar, age 19, from Ceres, California, Stanislaus county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, May 31, 1967
Death details: On February 6, 1997, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Brian Kent McGar, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant McGar joined the U.S. Army from California and was a member of the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. On May 31, 1967, he was a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambushed by enemy forces during their mission, and SSG McGar was killed in the fighting. A search team team sent to the patrol’s location did not find SSG McGar’s remains. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team excavated a burial site associated with SSG McGar’s loss, and recovered remains there. In February of 1997, SSG McGar was identified from among the recovered remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Donald P. Tupper, age 25, from Stanislaus County Ceres, California .
Parents: Jerome B. Tupper
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, June 18, 1953
Death details: Killed in the crash of an Air Force C0124 Globemaster near Tokyo.
Source: United Press (1953), The Reocrd (1953)