Johnny Delbert Verscheure, age 21, from Geneseo, Illinois, Henry county.
Parents: Ethel M. Verscheure
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, December 12, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, died while missing in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Nels Ivar Hemmingson, age 19, from Geneseo, Illinois, Henry county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, June 17, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Arland Duane Lindberg from Geneseo, Illinois, Henry county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, August 17, 1952
Death details: During August 1952, the 1st Battalion of the U.S. 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was responsible for defending a section of the western side of the Jamestown Line, near Hill 122 (Outpost Bunker Hill) on the Main Line of Resistance between North and South Korea. The battalion conducted day and night foot and motor patrols, some of which made direct contact with enemy forces that were probing the battalion’s defensive lines. That month, 36 Marines were killed in action during these engagements and four were reported missing in action.
Corporal Arland Duane Lindberg, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Illinois, served with Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was reported missing in action on August 17, 1952, after a mortar reportedly hit his foxhole near his unit’s defensive positions on Hill 122. He was not seen again and was never reported to be a prisoner of war. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Lindberg is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency