John Azariah Carroll, age 26, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 6Th Infantry, Baumholder, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Tulsa World
Jared Douglas Hartley, age 22, from Newkirk, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhd, 125Th Forward Support Battalion, 1Ad, (Tf Baghdad), Fort Riley, Kansas
Date of death: Friday, July 15, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Taji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brian Anthony Horinek, age 24, from Newkirk, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Spouse: Jennifer L. Hornek
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, December 30, 1970
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Elroy Frederick Wells, age 38, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, December 27, 1970
Source: National Archives, Times Standard, Associated Press (1970)
Dennis Irvin Day, age 19, from Blackwell, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, November 3, 1970
Death details: Non hostile death
Source: National Archives, Fort Worth Star Telegram (1970)
Lewis Earl Cox, age 20, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, Kay county.
Spouse: Beulah
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 19, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Daily Oklahoman (1970)
Robert Snyder Roy, age 20, from Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On November 27, 1950, B Company of the U.S. Army’s 35th Infantry Regiment, an element of Task Force Dolvin/Wilson, was holding a hastily erected defensive position near the village of Tong-dong, North Korea, when Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked the company’s perimeter from two sides. After heavy fighting, the Chinese successfully infiltrated the American positions, forcing a withdrawal under heavy mortar and artillery fire. The U.S. troops pulled back to another position a mile farther south. Corporal Robert Snyder Roy entered the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and served with B Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was captured during the action near Unsan, North Korea, on November 27, 1950, during the withdrawal from Tong-dong. Repatriated prisoners of war (POWs) later reported that CPL Roy died at Camp 5, Pyoktong, North Korea, on April 14, 1951, and was buried along the Yalu River, across from Camp 5. He was not identified among the remains returned to the U.S. following the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Roy is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Ponca Indian Tribal Cemetery, White Eagle
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Kenneth G. Erwin from Oklahoma, Kay county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 1, 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 and food and water supplied 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. Corporal Kenneth G. Erwin joined the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and was a member of Company H, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured on Corregidor Island following the American surrender on May 6, 1942 and died of dysentery on November 1, 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, Corporal Erwin is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Kenneth Leroy Dunaway, age 19, from Kay County Blackwell, Oklahoma .
Parents: John W. Dunaway
Service era: World War II
Schools: Blackwell High (1940)
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: National Archives, Blackwell Journal Tribune (1941)
Mancel Curtis Lane from Kay County Newkirk, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Tulsa World (1960)