Brian Duane Allgood, age 46, from Altus, Oklahoma, Jackson county.
Parents: Cleo Allgood
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Air Academy High (1978), West Point graduate
Date of death: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, KRDO, Military Times
Woodrow W. Cole from Jackson County Oklahoma.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, July 5, 1942
Death details: On July 5, 1942, a C-53B Skytrooper (serial number 41-20048) took off from Elmendorf Army Air Force Base, Alaska, on a transport mission to Seattle, Washington, carrying four crew members and twelve passengers. Approximately twenty-five miles northeast of Fort Randall, Cold Bay, Alaska, the aircraft crashed into a mountain on Kodiak Island in the Seward Peninsula off of northwest Alaska. All sixteen men on board died in the crash, but only the remains of six were recovered. The other ten occupants remain unaccounted for. Sergeant Woodrow W. Cole, who joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Oklahoma, was a member of the 54th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group. He was a passenger aboard this Skytrooper when it crashed during its transport mission to Seattle. His remains were not recovered following the crash. Today, Sergeant Cole is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John L. Geary, age 23, from Jackson County Aluts, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Monday, September 16, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War