Robert Sonnenburg III, age 26, from Turner, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Friday, February 22, 2013
Death details: Died after a training exercise at the National Training Center. The incident occurred February 20, 2013.
Source: National Military Examiner, Desert Dispatch, Daily Press, Dignity Memorial
Ryan Jeffrey Hill, age 20, from Keizer, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 26Th Infantry, 2 Bct, (1 Cd), Wurzburg, Germany
Date of death: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Fob Apache, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Derek William Jones, age 21, from Salem, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 3D Mar, (Rct-7, I Mef Fwd), 3D Mar Div, Mcbh Kaneohe Bay, Hi
Date of death: Sunday, October 8, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Al Asad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ryan Doran Walker, age 25, from Stayton, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhb, 1St Battalion, 76Th Field Artillery, (Tf Baghdad), Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Mattew J. Schiedler, age 20, from Hubbard, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Friday, December 21, 1990
Source: Department of Defense
Ronald Eugene Beutler, age 22, from Stayton, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, July 8, 1971
Death details: Body recovered
Source: National Archives
Fidencio Jr Flores, age 22, from Silverton, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 23, 1971
Death details: Died in a hospital in Japan from wounds received five days earlier in Vietnam
Cemetery: Calvary in Mount Angel, Oregon
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Salem Statesman Journal (1971)
John Thomas Strawn, age 28, from Salem, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 4, 1971
Death details: On March 4, 1971, a JU-21 LEFT JAB (tail number 18065, call sign “Vanguard 216”) with a crew of five departed Phu Bai Air Base, South Vietnam, on a signal intelligence collection mission over Quang Tri Province. The aircraft’s last radio communication was from a location near the Demilitarized Zone where an enemy artillery regiment was believed to be located and where witnesses saw an aerial explosion. Search and rescue efforts were carried out for two days, but were unsuccessful. Specialist 6 John Thomas Strawn, who joined the U.S. Army from Oregon, served with the 138th Aviation Company, 224th Aviation Battalion, 509th Radio Research Group. He was a crew member aboard the LEFT JAB when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Specialist 6 Strawn is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Willamette National
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Gerald Ernest Woods, age 21, from Salem, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, February 18, 1971
Death details: On February 18, 1971, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-15255) with four crew members took off as one of four helicopters on an emergency extraction mission for soldiers from a Special Forces camp located on the west side of A Shau Valley in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. Enemy troops fired on the Iroquois as it attempted to rescue the ground troops using a stable extraction rig, forcing the pilot to leave the area with three men still attached to the rigs. One of the troops on the extraction rigs fell off into the jungle and was eventually rescued. A short time after he fell, the helicopter was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire, which caused it to crash and burn with the four crew members and two rescued ground troops still inside. Warrant Officer 1 Gerald Ernest Woods entered the U.S. Army from Oregon and was a member of Company A, 101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. He was the pilot of this Iroquois when it crashed, and was lost with the aircraft. Attempts to locate or identify his remains have been unsuccessful. Today, Warrant Officer 1 Woods 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
Larry Dean Shelton, age 19, from Stayton, Oregon, Marion county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Stayton Union High (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, October 11, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Cemetery: Bilyeu Den
Source: National Archives, Albany Democrat Herald (1970)