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Michael John Deutsch, age 21, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop C 1St Squadron 1 Armored Cavalry, Apo Ae 09076
Date of death: Thursday, July 31, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ronald D. Rennison, age 21, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Dubuque Senior High
Date of death: Monday, February 25, 1991
Death details: Killed by SCUD missile.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Carl Anthony Palen, age 23, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: January 3, 1971
Military History: 61st Assault Helicopter Company
Death details: On January 3, 1971, a U-6A Beaver (tail number 52-2584) took off carrying a pilot and six passengers on an administrative support flight from Qui Nhon to Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam. The flight was over mountainous terrain and flown in inclement weather. Radar contact was lost with the aircraft fourteen miles southeast of Phu Cat, South Vietnam, in the vicinity of (GC) BR 960 250, and the U-6A never reached Ban Me Thuot. Attempts to locate the aircraft, pilot, or any of the passengers following the disappearance were unsuccessful.
Specialist 5 Carl Anthony Palen entered the U.S. Army from Iowa and was a member of the 61st Aviation Company, 223rd Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade. He was a passenger on board this U-6A when it was lost on January 3, 1971, and he remains unaccounted-for. After the incident, the Army promoted SP5 Palen to the rank of Sergeant First Class (SFC). Today, Sergeant First Class Palen is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Dubuque Telegraph Herald (2014), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Gerald Thomas Atkinson, age 23, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Parents: J. P. Meyers
Spouse: Jana (Lansing)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Campion Jesuit High in Prairie du Chien, Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa
Military history: 1st Air Cavalry Division
Date of death: Thursday, March 12, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Capital Times (1970)
Robert James Bennett, age 18, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Parents: J. O. Bennett
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for August 13, 2018.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Harold Francis Carney, age 23, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Parents: John Arthur Carney
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: On April 21, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Machinist’s Mate First Class Harold Francis Carney, missing from World War II. Machinist’s Mate First Class Carney, who joined the U.S. Navy from Iowa, was aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was killed in the attack, and although his remains were initially recovered, they could not be identified at that time, and he was buried as an unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In 2015, advances in forensic techniques prompted the reexamination and eventual identification of MM1 Carney’s remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Ralph Edward Scott, age 19, from Dubuque County Dubuque, Iowa .
Parents: Clifford Scott
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Utah
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Des Moines Register (1942)