Leroy Otis Webster, age 28, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery B, 3Rd Battalion, 82Nd Field Artillery, 2 Bct, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of death: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Death details: Hostile; Kirkuk, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremy Dale Vrooman, age 28, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 4Th Squadron, 2D Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Estell Lee Turner, age 43, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company E, 1St Battalion, 506Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Date of death: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Bethesda, United States
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Patrick William Herried, age 29, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop B, 4Th Squadron, 14Th Cavalry, (2Mef), Fort Wainwright, Ak
Date of death: Monday, February 6, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Cop Rawah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Jeremy Lee Bohlman, age 21, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Spouse: Lindsey
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Washington High, Sioux Falls (1996-2000)
Military history: H&S Co, Det 1St Lar, Hqbn, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Monday, June 7, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Donald Deane Aldern, age 20, from South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, June 29, 1970
Source: National Archives
Donald Edward Tippery, age 26, from South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On November 8, 2001, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Donald Edward Tippery, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Tippery entered the U.S. Army from South Dakota and served with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Company L were occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea, north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the “Camel’s Head Bend.” That day, CPL Tippery was in a group of soldiers withdrawing on foot down the Unsan-Ipsok road in North Korea when they encountered enemy forces; CPL Tippery did not survive the ensuing combat, although the exact details surrounding his loss are unknown. His body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a U.S. recovery team accessed a site along the withdrawal route in Unsan correlating to CPL Tippery’s loss and recovered human remains, and U.S. analysts identified CPL Tippery from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Rapid City Journal (1954)
Dale Lloyd Hoover, age 20, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, September 26, 1950
Death details: On September 26, 1950, the USS Brush (DD 745) was positioned off the coast of North Korea, shelling enemy targets near Tanchon. During this operation, the Brush struck an enemy underwater mine, and thirteen men were lost in the resulting explosion.
Fireman Dale Lloyd Hoover, who joined the U.S. Navy from South Dakota, was serving aboard the Brush on September 26, 1950. He was blown overboard and killed in the explosion, and his remains have not been recovered. Today, Fireman Hoover 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.
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1970)
Charles John McGill from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Paul Charles McLaughlin from South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Thursday, October 26, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker