Benjamin Joseph Colgan, age 30, from Kent, Washington, King county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhb 2D Battalion 3Rd Field Artillery Regiment, Apo Ae 09081
Date of death: Sunday, November 2, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Rodney Dee Osborne, age 21, from Kent, Washington, King county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 4, 1971
Death details: On March 4, 1971, a JU-21 LEFT JAB (tail number 18065, call sign “Vanguard 216”) with a crew of five departed Phu Bai Air Base, South Vietnam, on a signal intelligence collection mission over Quang Tri Province. The aircraft’s last radio communication was from a location near the Demilitarized Zone where an enemy artillery regiment was believed to be located and where witnesses saw an aerial explosion. Search and rescue efforts were carried out for two days, but were unsuccessful. Specialist 5 Rodney Dee Osborne, who joined the U.S. Army from Washington, served with the 138th Aviation Company, 224th Aviation Battalion, 509th Radio Research Group. He was a crew member aboard the LEFT JAB when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Specialist 5 Osborne is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
David Webster Maclurg, age 19, from Kent, Washington, King county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, September 27, 1970
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
Bruce Warren Shurtleff, age 20, from Kent, Washington, King county.
Parents: Noel A. Shurtleff
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, July 4, 1970
Death details: Died from non-hostile causes
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)