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Roberto Jose Yllescas, age 31, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop B, 6Th Squadron, 4Th Cavalry Regiment, 3 Bct, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Monday, December 1, 2008
Death details: Died at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., of wounds suffered Oct. 28 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael David Scholl, age 21, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: E Co, 2D Bn, 3D Mar, (Rct-7, I Mef Fwd), 3D Mar Div, Mcbh Kaneohe Bay, Hi
Date of death: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Hadithah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Garrison Charles Avery, age 23, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Co D, 1St Bn, 502D Inf, 2 Bct, 4 Id (Tf Baghdad), Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremy James Fischer, age 26, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 267Th Ord Co (Ds), 1776 North 10Th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of death: Sunday, July 11, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Samarra, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Matthew Charles Henderson, age 25, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 1St Ceb, 2D Bn, 7Th Mar, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Christopher Wayne Swisher, age 26, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county. Their last known residence was in Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Parents: Harry Swisher (preceded in death)
Spouse: Kristen Swisher (married two years)
Children: Alexandria
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Lincoln Northeast High (1995)
Military history: Troop E 2D Squadron 2D Armor Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, Louisiana
Date of death: Thursday, October 9, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq. Killed when his patrolling unit was ambushed by individuals using small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades
Source: Department of Defense, McCook Gazette, Military Times
Peter Rose from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Friday, December 14, 1990
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Larry Alfred Zich from Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Service era: Veitnam
Date of death: Monday, April 3, 1972.
On October 25, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Larry A. Zich, missing from the Vietnam War.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Zich entered the U.S. Army from Nebraska and served in the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade. On April 3, 1972, he was the copilot of a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-16330, call sign “Cavalier 70”) with a crew of four that departed Marble Mountain, Da Nang, South Vietnam, on a combat support mission to Quang Tri City, South Vietnam. During the flight, the pilot told a Hue/Phu Bai Ground Control Approach (GCA) controller that he was lost, and believed they were near Quang Tri. Following the transmission, the GCA controller could not locate the helicopter on the radar and reported the team missing. When the helicopter failed to appear at any of the air bases in South Vietnam, an aerial search was initiated but found no sign of the missing aircraft or crew. On April 11, 1988, the Defense Intelligence Agency received human remains from a Vietnamese refugee. Reportedly, the remains belonged to individuals who died in an aircraft crash and were buried in Quang Nam Province. These remains were then sent to Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii, for further study. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of these remains and CW3 Zich.
Zich, who joined the U.S. Army from Nebraska, served with the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade. He was the copilot aboard “Cavalier 70” when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. After the incident, the Army promoted CW2 Zich to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3. Today, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Zich is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Michael Marion Farley, age 23, from Lancaster County Nebraska.
Parents: Dennis Farley Sr.
Service era: Veitnam
Date of death: Saturday, October 30, 1971
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Cemetery: Mount Olivet
Source: National Archives, Saint Joseph News Press (1971)
John Clyde Jr. Thompson, age 23, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lancaster county.
Spouse: Mary M. Thompson
Service era: Veitnam
Date of death: Thursday, August 12, 1971
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)