Michael Raymond Speer, age 24, from Davenport, Iowa, Scott county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 2D Mar, Rct-1, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Friday, April 9, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Russell Pitzen from Stacyville, Iowa, Mitchell county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: August 17, 1972
Death details: On February 20, 1996, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA) identified the remains of Commander John Russell Pitzen, missing from the Vietnam War.
Commander Pitzen entered the U.S. Navy from Iowa and was a member of Fighter Squadron 114, Carrier Air Wing 11. On August 17, 1972, he piloted an F-4J Phantom II (bureau number 157262, call sign “Linfield 211”) that took off from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) to escort attack aircraft on a night strike mission against an enemy target in North Vietnam. During the mission, his aircraft was struck by an enemy surface-to-air missile that caused it to crash near Haiphong, killing CDR Pitzen. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1991, U.S. investigators received human remains from a refugee source that correlated with a crash site near Yen Duc Village; between 1992 and 1996, a joint investigation team traveled to the crash site where excavations recovered artifacts and additional human remains, and in 1996, they were able to identify CDR Pitzen from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Charles O’Hara, age 19, from Lost Nation, Iowa, Clinton county.
Service era: Vietnam
Parents: John R. (1916-78) and Ruth C. (1919-93)
Date of death: February 6, 1969
Death details: On February 6, 1969, he was the crew chief aboard a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 67-17499, call sign “Black Cat 28”) on a resupply mission to Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Bad weather caused the aircraft to turn back and at some point it crashed, 
killing SFC O’Hara. Search and rescue efforts failed to locate the crash site, and SFC O’Hara’s remains could not be recovered at the time. Between 1990 and 1995, U.S. investigators interviewed witnesses and reviewed artifacts that eventually led to the crash site in Quang Tri Province. In 1995 and 1996, investigators revisited the crash site and recovered human remains and personal artifacts, and were eventually able to identify SFC O’Hara from these remains.
Cemetery: Lost Nation
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, grave markers
Laurel W. Ebert from Iowa.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On July 1, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private Laurel W. Ebert, missing from World War II. Private Ebert, who joined the U.S. Army in Iowa, served with Company I, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. On November 26, 1942, Private Ebert participated in a nine-person patrol dispatched to clear an enemy position west of the Sanananda Track near Cape Killerton, Papua (now Papua New Guinea). During this patrol, Private Ebert was killed. In 1943, he was interred as an unknown at a U.S. temporary cemetery in Sanananda, as his remains were unable to be individually identified at the time. In 1947, his remains were disinterred for additional analysis, but were declared unidentifiable and were interred at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines. In 2017, analysts exhumed these remains and used modern forensic techniques to successfully identified them as those of Private Ebert.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency