Franklin N. Watson, age 21, from Vonore, Tennessee, Monroe county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: Company D. 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Date of death: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Joseph Daniel Hunt, age 27, from Sweetwater, Tennessee, Monroe county.
Service era: Iraq
Children: Caleb, 5; Joshua, 3
Military history: Howitzer Battery, 3D Squadron, 278Th Armored Cavalry (Tf Liberty), Sparta, Tn
Date of death: Monday, August 22, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Samarra, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
J. C. Davis, age 20, from Coker Creek, Tennessee, Monroe county.
Parents: Odis W. Davis
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Tellico Plains High graduate
Date of death: Thursday, November 5, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam while on a mission and he accidentally detonated a mechanical ambush device.
Source: National Archives, Knoxville News Sentinel (1970)
Tommy Robert Wilson, age 26, from Monroe County Sweetwater, Tennessee .
Spouse: Shirley A. Wilson
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, December 2, 1965
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Elmer O. Jones, age 19, from Monroe County Tennessee.
Parents: Charley Jones
Service era: World War II
Military history: 90th Division
Date of death: Tuesday, December 12, 1944
Death details: Killed in action in Germany. He was a member of a forward observation party whose mission was to establish a bridgehead across the Saar River in Germany.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Coalgate Record Register (1945)
Connie Cagle, age 23, from Monroe County Sweetwater, Tennessee .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 22, 1942
Death details: On July 8, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified Private Connie Cagle, missing from World War II. Private Cagle, who entered the U.S. Army from Michigan, served in Company K, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. On November 22, 1942, he was with his unit during a joint operation that comprised Australian units and the 126th Infantry Regiment in an attack on Japanese positions on the Soputa-Sanananda Track, near Buna, Papua New Guinea. Private Cable was killed in this action and was reportedly buried near Buna, but he was not identified among the remains disinterred from Buna following the war. On January 16, 1943, Army personnel recovered Private Cagle’s remains from a burial site near the Sanananda Track; however, they could not be individually identified at the time, and he was buried as an unknown. In 2019, DPAA disinterred and accessioned the remains into their laboratory, and analysts were able to use DNA evidence and historical and geographic findings to identify the remains as those of Private Cagle.
Cemetery: Manila American Cemetery
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
James Gardner from Chilhowee, Tennessee, Monroe county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, November 8, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Jay M. Horowitz, age 26, from Monroe County Sweetwater, Tennessee .
Parents: Benjamin Horowitz
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Knoxville News Sentinel (1943, 1946)