Joshua Adam Terando, age 27, from Morris, Illinois, Grundy county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 1St Battalion, 110Th Infantry (2 Mef), Mount Pleasant, Pa
Date of death: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Benjamin Victor Doman, age 21, from South Wilmington, Illinois, Grundy county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, September 21, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, illness in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Leo Carlyle Todd, age 20, from Morris, Illinois, Grundy county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: During the last week of October 1950, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army forces under the control of the U.S. Eighth Army were advancing deep in North Korean territory, approaching the Yalu River on the Chinese-Korean border. Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) struck back in a surprise attack, engaging the ROK 1st and 6th Divisions near Unsan, some sixty miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the lead, was rushed forward to reinforce the ROK units in the Unsan area. On November 1, the regiment’s 1st Battalion took up positions north of Unsan, while the 2nd Battalion moved to guard the Nammyon River valley west of town, and the 3rd Battalion was placed in reserve at the valley’s southern end. Sergeant Leo Carlyle Todd joined the U.S. Army from Illinois and was a member of Company I of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Company I were in defensive positions with the 3rd Battalion near Unsan when they received orders to withdraw. The 3rd Battalion was the last unit in the withdrawal sequence, and they experienced heavy and constant attacks by the CCF. Sergeant Todd was reported missing during this fighting, though specific details surrounding his loss are unknown. He was not reported as a prisoner of war, nor has he been identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today, Sergeant Todd is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Saint Louis Post Dispatch (1950)
Glen A. Viano, age 21, from Illinois, Grundy county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: 93 Bombardment Squadron 19 Bombardment Group (Heavy)
Date of death: Saturday, July 25, 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 Glen A. Viano entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Illinois and served with the 93rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured following the American surrender and ultimately interned in the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province, where he died of dysentery on July 25, 1942. 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 Viano 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 T. George, age 22, from Grundy County Morris, Illinois .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Monday, September 23, 1918
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War