Dennis Michael Daugherty, age 21, from Roselle, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: John and Joan Daugherty
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Lake Park High (1967
Date of death: Wednesday, March 4, 1970
Death details: Died in a hospital in Japan from injruies suffered from hostile fire in Vietnam.
Cemetery: Saint Michael the Archangel in Palatine
Source: National Archives, Bensenville Register (1970)
Jan Douglas Garringer, age 20, from Bensenville, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: Vance and Evelyn Garringer
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Fenton High (1967)
Date of death: Monday, February 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam
Cemetery: Zion in Bensenville
Source: National Archives, Bensenville Register (1970), Associated Press (1970)
John Vincent Francis, age 25, from Elmhurst, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: Estiello H. Francis
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, February 10, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Gregory Lee Anderson, age 22, from Wheaton, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: Jack R. Anderson
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Wheaton Central High (1966)
Date of death: Wednesday, January 28, 1970
Death details: On January 28, 1970, an HH-53B Super Jolly Green Giant (tail number 14434, call sign Jolly Green 71) with a crew of six took off on a search and rescue mission in Laos. While in a holding pattern over the rescue area, the helicopter was struck by enemy fire, causing it to crash. Search and rescue efforts could not be conducted due to a strong enemy presence in the area. The remains of the helicopter’s pilot were returned to U.S. custody after the war; however, the rest of the crew is still unaccounted for. Sergeant Gregory Lee Anderson, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Illinois, was a member of Detachment 9, 601st Photographic Flight. He was the aerial photographer aboard the HH-53B when it went down, and was lost with the aircraft. Attempts to recover or identify his remains have been unsuccessful. Subsequent to the incident, and while carried in the status of missing in action (MIA), the U.S. Air Force promoted Sergeant Anderson to the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSgt). Today, Staff Sergeant Anderson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1970), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Henry Miller, age 21, from West Chicago, Illinois, DuPage county.
Parents: Clarence C. and Geraldine
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, January 17, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Cemetery: Chapel Hill Gardens
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1970)
Dennis Floyd Kabra from Aurora, Illinois, DuPage county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, January 10, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Eykel Martin D. II Vanden from Wheaton, Illinois, DuPage county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: December 2, 1969
Death details:
On February 22, 1990, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer Martin Dahlberg Vanden Eykel, missing from the Vietnam War.
CWO Vanden Eykel joined the U.S. Army from Illinois and was a member of the 129th Aviation Company. On December 2, 1969, he was the aircraft commander of a UH-1B Iroquois on a fire support mission for a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The aircraft crashed during the mission, and CWO Vanden Eykel was killed in the incident. His remains could not be immediately recovered. In January 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that forensic analysis identified as those of CWO Vanden Eykel.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Patrick Robert Curran, age 25, from Bensenville, Illinois, DuPage county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: September 29, 1969
Death details: On April 20, 2011, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Patrick Robert Curran, missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Curran joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Illinois and was a member of Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 242, Marine Air Group 11. On September 29, 1969, he was the bombardier and navigator aboard an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 15569) on an armed reconnaissance mission over Laos. Major Curran’s aircraft went down at some point during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. Immediate search and rescue efforts launched when the Intruder failed to return were unsuccessful. In February 2000, a joint U.S. and Laotian investigative team excavated a site associated with the intruder’s loss, recovering remains that were later identified as those of Maj Curran.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Charles Zawne from Elmhurst, Illinois, DuPage county.
Spouse: Carol Jean Zawne
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
Roy E. Wagner from Illinois, DuPage county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, August 20, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker