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Woods, Gary Lee Jr
Army Staff Sergeant

Gary Lee Jr Woods, age 24, from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 1St Battalion, 67Th Armor, 2 Bct, Fort Carson, Colorado

Date of death: Friday, April 10, 2009
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times

Hardesty, Arthur W.
Private

Arthur W. Hardesty, age 24, from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, Bullitt county.

Parents: J.W. Howard

Service era: Early 1900s

Date of death: Thursday, November 15, 1928
Cemetery: Among officers killed when the wing on the plane they were aboard tore itself loose from the body of the plane. The biplane crashed nose first in Texas. The victims of the accident volunteered to take the flight so that six officers scheduled to get in some flying time could attend a football game. The men were trapped in the cabin by folds of an open parachute.

Source: Lincoln Journal Star (1928), Sacramento Bee (1929)

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