Nathaniel Skorup Baughman, age 23, from Monticello, Indiana, White county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 1St Battalion, 187Th Infantry, 3 Bct, Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Monday, July 17, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dean Arnold Duvall, age 20, from White County Monticello, Indiana .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, March 13, 1966
Death details: On March 13, 1966, an AC-47D Spooky (tail number 4349268) with seven crew members departed Da Nang Air Base for an armed reconnaissance mission over a portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. The aircraft made radio contact with a ground station shortly before entering Laotian airspace but was not seen or heard from again. Search and rescue efforts in the following days failed to locate the crash site or any crew members. Airman First Class Dean Arnold Duvall entered the U.S. Air Force from Indiana and served in the 4th Air Commando Squadron. He was a gunner aboard the AC-47D when it went missing on March 13, 1966, and his remains have not been located. While carried in the status of missing in action (MIA), the U.S. Air Force promoted A1 Duvall to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt). Today, Chief Master Sergeant Duvall is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Billy Byron Baird from Monticello, Indiana, White county.
Parents: Verne Baird
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Department of Defense
Robert Vernon Estes from White County Monticello, Indiana .
Parents: Harry Stockdale, mother died shortly after he was declared missing.
Service era: Korea
Schools: Lincoln school
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Corporal Robert Vernon Estes joined the U.S. Army from Indiana and was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces outside of Kunu-ri, as his unit conducted its fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. Corporal Estes was marched to a prisoner of war camp in North Korea known as the Mining Camp, where he died in January of 1951. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Estes 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, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Monticello Daily Herald Journal (1954)