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Christopher Michael Allgaier, age 33, from Middleton, Wisconsin, Dane county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 3D Battalion, 82D Aviation Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Upper Sangin Valley/Lz Stella, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dennis M. Stoppleworth, age 21, from Middleton, Wisconsin, Dane county.
Parents: Rodney Stoppleworth
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Middleton High (1967), University of Wisconsin
Date of death: Saturday, June 20, 1970
Death details: Killed at an aircraft landing zone in Cambodia
Source: National Archives, Madison Captial Times (1970)
Duane Richard, age 20, from Middleton, Wisconsin, Dane county.
Parents: Dorman Richard
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Middleton High (1967)
Date of death: Tuesday, February 10, 1970
Death details: Killed in an aircraft accident.
Source: National Archives, Wisconsin State Journal (1970)
William Laverne Simon, age 20, from Middleton, Wisconsin, Dane county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 5, 1944
Death details: Accounted for November 29, 2022. In November 1944, Simon was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported killed in action on Nov. 5. His remains could not be recovered during the battle. Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950 but were unable to identify Simons’s remains. He was declared nonrecoverable on Dec. 10, 1950. While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-5767 Neuville, recovered in a field south of Hürtgen in 1946 possibly belonged to Simon. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950, were disinterred in April 2019 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency