Christopher Alan Sanders, age 22, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hht, 3D Squadron, 2D Cavalry, Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Sinsil, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brynn Joel Naylor, age 21, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 12Th Infantry, 2 Bct, Fort Carson, Co
Date of death: Thursday, December 13, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ricky Jr. Salas, age 22, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Spouse: Married
Children: Two
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 37Th Armor, Friedberg, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq. Died when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Moses Daniel Rocha, age 33, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Blt 1/4, 11Th Meu, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Thursday, August 5, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Najaf, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Monty Doyal Boyer, age 21, from New Mexico, Chaves county.
Parents: Michael T. Linville
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, September 7, 1970
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
James Reding, age 36, from Rosewell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: Stationed at Offutt Air Base in Omaha
Date of death: Thursday, March 2, 1950
Death details: Killed in Council Bluffs, Iowa when the car he was in struck a tree.
Source: Associated Press (1950), Randolph Times (1950)
Allen Jackson Stacy from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Aubrey L. Maddux from New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, April 9, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. 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. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Sergeant Aubrey L. Maddux entered the U.S. Army from New Mexico and served with the 515th Coast Artillery Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of dysentery on October 9, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Sergeant Maddux is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency