Alan Blake Rowe, age 35, from Hagerman, Idaho, Gooding county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Wpns Co, 1St Bn, 7Th Mar, Rct-7, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Friday, September 3, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Gary Lyn Steele, age 26, from Gooding County Bliss, Idaho .
Spouse: Engaged to Dee Schenk
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: White Pine High graduate
Date of death: Monday, April 19, 1965
Death details: Died at a U.S. base hospital on Okinawa, where he was evacuated after wounded in action the same day in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Martin Silk Mink from Wendell, Idaho, Gooding county.
Parents: Hyrum Muncie Mink
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
Stanton W. Runyon, age 20, from Idaho, Gooding county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, June 22, 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. Technician Fifth Grade Stanton W. Runyon entered the U.S. Army from Idaho and served with Company C, 803rd Engineers Battalion in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of dysentery on June 22, 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, Technician Fifth Grade Runyon is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Thomas Lea Owsley, age 22, from Hagerman, Idaho, Gooding county.
Parents: Lizzie Owsley Ellis
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency