Ryan James Buckley, age 21, from Nokomis, Illinois, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 2D Battalion, 506Th Infantry, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Date of death: Friday, June 23, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Anthony George Brozich, age 21, from Walshville, Illinois, Montgomery county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, April 29, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, illness in South Vietnam
Cemetery: New Calvary in Mount Olive, Illinois
Source: National Archives, findgrave.com
Donald Frank Marit, age 33, from Montgomery County Litchfield, Illinois .
Spouse: Married
Children: Brien, 1
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, September 8, 1964
Death details: Killed in a patrol plane crash in the South China Sea.
Source: National Archives, Spokane Chronicle (1962), Memphis Press Scimitar (1964)
Glenn Maynard Clark from Illinois, Montgomery county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 30, 1950
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Private First Class Glenn Maynard Clark, who joined the U.S. Army from Illinois, served with Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, near Chochiwon and was forced to march north to the Apex Camps near the Yalu River in North Korea. He died of exhaustion and pneumonia in late November at the prison camp near Chunggang-jin and was buried near the edge of the village. His remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Private First Class Clark is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Carl Penner Rogers, age 21, from Montgomery County Hillsboro, Illinois .
Parents: Mabel Reckerd
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, October 15, 1942
Death details: On October 15, 1942, he was in a U.S. convoy of six ships that was towing barges loaded with urgently needed supplies toward Guadalcanal. The American forces on that island were in dire need of resupply. When the convoy was spotted by enemy aircraft, all but two ships withdrew from the area. The two ships that pressed on were the USS Meredith (DD-434,) a destroyer, and the USS Vireo (AM-54,) a lightly armed towing vessel. Upon receiving word that Japanese surface warships were operating in the area, both ships were forced to turn back from their mission. Because of its age and slow speed, Vireo was abandoned, and the crew taken aboard the Meredith. Within minutes, the Meredith was attacked by a large force of enemy aircraft. The destroyer sustained multiple bomb and torpedo hits and quickly sank. The survivors spent three days at sea before being rescued. The majority of the crews of both ships was killed in the incident.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Paul Anthony Evans, age 22, from Fillmore, Illinois, Montgomery county.
Parents: Morgan Evans
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives
Herman Gerhards, age 23, from Montgomery County Nokomis, Illinois .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, October 13, 1918
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War