Roger Allen Scarbrough, age 20, from Dixon, Illinois, Lee county.
Parents: Marie M. Scarbrough
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, August 31, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
John Michael Babich, age 20, from Franklin Grove, Illinois, Lee county.
Parents: John Babich
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Franklin Center High (1968)
Date of death: Wednesday, July 22, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Dixon Evening Telegraph (1970)
Leroy Clyde Schaneberg, age 30, from Ashton, Illinois, Lee county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 30, 1970
Death details: On March 7, 1995, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Leroy Clyde Schaneberg, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Schaneberg joined the U.S. Air Force from Illinois and was a member of the 40th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron. On June 30, 1970, he was the pilot of an HH-53C Super Jolly Green Giant (serial number 68-8283) on a search and rescue mission over Laos. The Super Jolly Green Giant was downed by enemy ground fire during the mission, and Capt Schaneberg was killed in the crash. Search and rescue crews were unable to recover his body at the time due to enemy forces in the area. In March 1994, a joint U.S. and Laotian search team recovered remains from the HH-53C’s crash site. In 1995, forensic analysis identified some of the recovered remains as those of Capt Schaneberg.
Source: National Archives
Steve J. Tepovich from Illinois, Lee county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: June 6, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, family
Bruce Dean Bradley, age 19, from Paw Paw, Illinois, Lee county.
Parents: Daniel Bradley
Service era: World War II
Schools: Elgin High
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Chicago Tribune (1941)
Thomas George Powell, age 19, from Dixon, Illinois, Lee county.
Parents: Thomas H. Powell
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives