Christian Monroe Neff, age 19, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 64Th Armor, Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dennis Lloyd Pintor, age 30, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Company, 20Th Engineer Battalion, 1St Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Tx 76544
Date of death: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Edmund Battelle Taylor Jr. from Lima, Ohio, Allen county. Their last known residence was in Lima.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, May 8, 1972
Death details: On May 8, 1972, an SH-3G Sea King (bureau number 149699, call sign “Mustang Angel 5”) with eight personnel aboard crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin off the fantail of the cruiser USS Providence (CLG 6) while attempting a night landing. An immediate search and rescue effort was launched, and five men aboard the helicopter were safely recovered. The body of one of the passengers, the commander of Cruiser/Destroyer Flotilla 11, was recovered, but the bodies of two other passengers could not be located.
Captain Edmund Battelle Taylor Jr., who joined the U.S. Navy from Ohio, served aboard the Providence as the chief of staff of the Rear Admiral commanding Cruiser/Destroyer Flotilla 11. He was aboard the helicopter when it crashed and his remains could not be recovered. Today, Captain Taylor is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of non-recoverable.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Owen George Skinner, age 37, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county. Their last known residence was in Lima.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: December 12, 1970
Death details:
On December 12, 1970, an O-2A Skymaster (tail number 67-21428, call sign “Nail 84”) with two crew members departed Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, on a nighttime visual reconnaissance mission over central Laos. The aircraft failed to return to base, and was declared missing when its fuel supply would have been exhausted, approximately three hours after the crew’s last radio contact with the airborne command and control center. A search was initiated the following morning and the crash site was located, along with one parachute on the ground nearby, and rescue beeper signals were detected. However, the two missing crew members could not be located, and enemy presence in the area prevented ground search operations.
Major Owen George Skinner, who entered the U.S. Air Force from Ohio, served with the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron. He was the navigator aboard this aircraft at the time of its loss on December 12, 1970, and could not be found or recovered following the incident. He remains unaccounted-for. Subsequent to the incident, and while carried in the status of missing in action (MIA), the U.S. Air Force promoted Major Skinner to the rank of Colonel (Col). Today, Colonel Skinner is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Jeffrey Michael Shaw, age 22, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Parents: Junior R. Shaw
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, October 24, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Douglas Edward Dahill, age 20, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, April 17, 1969
Death details: On September 16, 2010, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Douglas Edward Dahill, missing from the Vietnam War. Sergeant First Class Dahill joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On April 17, 1969, he was a part of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambused by enemy forces, and thunderstorms in the area prevented air support from reaching the recon team. Search teams surveying the area the next day found no sign of the patrol members. After the war, joint U.S./Vietnamese investigators excavated the site associated with the ambush and recovered human remains. In 2010, modern forensic techniques allowed for the identification of SFC Dahill from among the recovered remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Carl D. Nesbitt from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, May 29, 1944
Death details: On September 9, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of First Lieutenant Carl D. Nesbitt, missing from World War II. First Lieutenant Nesbitt entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Ohio and served in the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bombardment Group. On May 29, 1944, he was the pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-39953) with a crew of ten that took part in a bombing mission against enemy targets near Leipzig, Germany. During the mission, the plane was damaged by enemy fighters, caught fire, and fell out of formation. Six men succeeded in parachuting from the stricken bomber before it crashed near Horst, Brandenburg, Germany. They later returned to U.S. custody. Witnesses saw one crew member attempt to bail out from low altitude, but his parachute did not deploy, and the man was killed. His remains were buried in a civilian cemetery and later recovered. 1LT Nesbitt was one of three crew members whose remains were not recovered at the time. In July 2012, an investigation team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a DPAA predecessor organization, found the crash site and recovered evidence of a B-17 crash. In 2019, the DPAA contracted History Flight, Inc. to excavate this crash site. The team recovered material evidence and traces of human remains. These materials were then transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between these remains and the three unaccounted-for fliers from the aircraft, including 1LT Nesbitt.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
James Donald Hoyt, age 35, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.
Spouse: Mildred Hoyt
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, July 24, 1943
Cemetery: New Albany National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Clyde Donald Shaw, age 24, from Allen County Lima, Ohio .
Parents: Nannie Sellers Shaw
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Lima News (1944)