Thai Vue, age 22, from Willows, California, Glenn county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 127th Mp Co., 709 Mp Bn., V Corp. Apo Ae 09342 (Hanau, Germany)
Date of death: Friday, June 18, 2004
Death details: Hostile; 31St Csh Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Paul Brummet, age 21, from Willows, California, Glenn county.
Parents: Paul R. Brummet
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, March 3, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam, one week before his scheduled discharge.
Source: National Archives, Sacramento Bee (1970)
Lee Chris Dixon, age 28, from Glenn County Orland, California .
Parents: L.C. Dixon
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, January 7, 1966
Death details: Died when his cargo plane blew up while preparing to land in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Sacramento Bee (1966), Orland Unit Register (1966)
James S. Mitchell from California, Glenn county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, January 7, 1943
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. Private James S. Mitchell joined the U.S. Army from California and served with Company B, 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of pellagra on January 7, 1943, 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 were not associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private Mitchell is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
William W. Landrus, age 24, from California, Glenn county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, July 21, 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. Corporal William W. Landrus joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from California and served with the 34th Pursuit Squadron, attached to the 24th Pursuit Group in the Philippines during World War II. The 34th was stationed at Del Carmen Field on Luzon Island when the Japanese attacked U.S. military bases in the Pacific in December 1941. After the Japanese destroyed the unit’s aircraft on the ground at Del Carmen, the men of the 34th served as infantry during the Battle of Bataan. When U.S. troops in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1941, they were forced on the Bataan Death March. They went first to Camp O’Donnell in Tarlac Province and from there to the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija. Corporal Landrus died of dysentery on July 21, 1942, while still interned at Cabanatuan. 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, Corporal Landrus is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Niven Frizzell, age 19, from Orland, California, Glenn county.
Parents: Francis Niven Frizzell
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Montgomery Advetiser (2000)