Joseph P. Collette from Lancaster, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 242nd Ordnance Battalion, Disposal Group, Fort Carson, Colorado
Date of death: Friday, March 22, 2019
Death details: Died from wounds while engaged in combat operations in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense
David Neal Johnston, age 23, from Fairfield County Lancaster, Ohio .
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Lancaster High (1966), Ohio University
Date of death: Friday, February 25, 1972
Death details: He was a co-pilot of an aircraft that developed mechanical failure and crashed, causing his death.
Source: National Archives, Lancaster Eagle Gazette (1972)
Christopher L. Shaeffer, age 20, from Lancaster, Ohio, Fairfield county.
Parents: Robert L. Shaeffer
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Lancaster High graduate
Date of death: Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when the truck in which he was riding went off the road while his unit was on patrol.
Source: National Archives, Lancaster Eagle Gazette (1970)
Gary William Morris, age 21, from Lancaster, Ohio, Fairfield county.
Parents: Willis S. Morris
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, January 14, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Knollwood Memory Gardens in Hocking County
Source: National Archives, Lancaster Eagle Gazette (1970)
Edward Lee Roark, age 18, from Fairfield County Lancaster, Ohio .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, May 8, 1966
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1966)
Russell Burr Luker, age 32, from Lancaster, Ohio, Fairfield county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, February 1, 1966
Death details: On February 1, 1966, a KC-130F Hercules (bureau number 149809) took off carrying six crew members on an aerial refueling mission over the Gulf of Tonkin. En route to its rendezvous point, all radio and radar contact was lost with the aircraft while over the water in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q YE 520 190. Search efforts to locate the aircraft and the six crew members were unsuccessful. Staff Sergeant Russell Burr Luker entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Ohio and was a member of the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, 1st Marine Air Wing. He was a crew member aboard this Hercules when it disappeared on February 1, 1966, and was lost with the aircraft. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Staff Sergeant Luker 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
William Thomas Haynes, age 19, from Fairfield County Lancaster, Ohio .
Parents: Ervin Haynes
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Lancaster High
Military history: 3rd Division
Date of death: Tuesday, February 1, 1966
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Green Summit
Source: National Archives, Lancaster Eagle Gazette (1966)
George Edward Davies from Lancaster, Ohio, Fairfield county.
Spouse: Helen J. Davies
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Aboard aircraft that crashed in the area of Ploesti, Romania during Operation Tidal Wave attack. Body not recovered
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com