Ryan D. Sharp, age 28, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
Date of death: Saturday, December 3, 2011
Death details: Died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany of wounds suffered November 21 at Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jerrick Mcken Petty, age 25, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B 3D Battalion 502D Infantry, Fort Campbell, Kentucky 42223
Date of death: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas P. Wilcox III, age 30, of Idaho Falls, Idaho
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Friday, March 15, 1996
Death details: Killed when S-3 “”Viking”” of Sea Control Squadron (VS) 24 crashed at sea near Puerto Rico while on routine training mission
Source: U.S. Navy, Journal Times
Thomas Oliver Ahlberg, age 19, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Parents: Darlene B. Pittser
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, May 4, 1970
Source: National Archives, non-hostile death (1970)
Douglas John Wade, age 18, from Bonneville County Idaho Falls, Idaho .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, February 19, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Times-News, Cleveland Press (1966)
Larry C. Thornton, age 33, from Bonneville County Idaho Falls, Idaho .
Parents: Cliff Thornton
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, December 24, 1965
Death details: On April 10, 2012, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Master Sergeant Larry C. Thornton, missing from the Vietnam War. Chief Master Sergeant Thornton entered the U.S. Air Force from Idaho and was a member of the 4th Air Commando Squadron. On December 24, 1965, he was a crew member aboard an AC-47D Spooky gunship carrying five other crew members on an armed reconnaissance mission against enemy targets in southern Laos. The aircraft crashed during the mission in Savannakhet Province and CMSgt Thornton was killed in the incident along with the other crew members. In 1995, a joint U.S./Laotian team investigated a reported location in Savannakhet Province that led the team to the Spooky’s crash site and recovery of aircraft wreckage. The team re-visited the site from 1999 to 2001, and again in 2010 and 2011, and recovered human remains, personal items, and military equipment. Modern forensic techniques were able to identify CMSgt Thornton among the remains recovered.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1965), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Elmer G. Hahn, age 26, from Booneville County Idaho Falls, Idaho .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, May 26, 1945
Death details: On April 24, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress (serial number 42-94206) with a crew of eleven departed Guam for a bombing mission against enemy installations in Tachikawa, Japan. Just after it dropped its bombs, this plane caught fire and entered a slow downward turn to the right before crashing and burning on the ground. Six members of the crew were killed in the crash. Their remains were later recovered near the crash site and identified. Five members of the crew bailed out and were taken to a military prison in Tokyo, where they later died during an airstrike. The remains of two of those men were later recovered and identified, but the remains of the other three could not be located. Captain Elmer G. Hahn entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from California and served in the 870th Bombardment Squadron, 497th Bombardment Group. He was the pilot aboard this Superfortress when it was shot down. After surviving the crash, he was held as a prisoner of war, and perished at the Tokyo Military Prison during the fire on May 26, 1945. He has not yet been definitively associated with any remains recovered from the area and is still unaccounted-for. Today, Captain Hahn is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Military Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Five Japanese war criminals were tried for the murder of Hahn and other captured American fliers.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Post Register (1948)
Ezra E. Rapp from Booneville County Idaho Falls, Idaho .
Parents: Ezra E. Rapp
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, August 7, 1943
Death details: Killed in an airplane crash in New Guinea. He was aboard C-47-DL “Eagle Beaver” when it crashed into Cleveland Bay about 20 minutes after takeoff.
Source: National Archives, Post Register (1943)
Frank Crook Loveland, age 18, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bonneville county.
Parents: Orilla Loveland Malone
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, Idaho Statesman (1941)