James Charles III Kearney, age 22, from Emerson, Iowa, Mills county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 168Th Infantry, (25Id) Glenwood, Ia 51534
Date of death: Monday, November 1, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Salerno, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ben Jr. Johnson, age 38, from Mills County Pacific Junction, Iowa .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Daily Nonpareil (1965)
Marlin Leslie Richardson, age 31, from Mills County Glenwood, Iowa .
Parents: L. L. Richardson
Spouse: Patsy
Children: Marlina, 9; Leslie, 7
Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Tuesday, November 28, 1950
Death details: On November 25, 1950, the U.S. Army 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions were holding defensive positions south of the town of Unsan, North Korea, below the Yalu River. On November 26 and 27, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked the U.S. troops, pushing them through the towns of Ung-dong and Yongsan-dong, and on to Yongbyon, where they were given orders to establish new defensive lines. First Lieutenant Marlin Leslie Richardson entered the U.S. Army from Iowa and served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on November 28, during this withdrawal to Yongbyon. No one saw him fall in battle and he was not reported to be a prisoner of war. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today, First Lieutenant Richardson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Daily Nonpareil (1954)
Harold E. Kidwell, age 23, from Mills County Hastings, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, April 4, 1943
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Everett A. Findley from Mills County Hastings, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 22, 1942
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Kenneth H. Thomas, age 21, from Mills County Emerson, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 22, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor and food and water supplied extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Corporal Kenneth G. Thomas joined the U.S. Army from Minnesota and served with Company A, 194th Tank Battalion in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of cerebral malaria on July 14, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Corporal Thomas is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Cemetery: For Leavenworth National
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Frank R. Bird, age 22, from Mills County Glenwood, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, November 12, 1942
Death details: Died of wounds
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Robert Monroe Halladay, age 24, from Mills County Glenwood, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, November 5, 1942
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Glen C. Bostedt from Iowa, Mills county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, October 11, 1942
Death details: Died, non-battle
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Robert Woods Jackson, age 19, from Glenwood, Iowa, Mills county.
Parents: Marion Dean Jackson
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency