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Jason Thomas Lee, age 26, from Fruitport, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 38Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Lewis, Wa
Date of death: Sunday, November 18, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Daniel Edward Scheibner, age 40, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery C, 2D Battalion, 12Th Field Artillery, Fort Lewis, Wa
Date of death: Thursday, August 30, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Al Noor, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Todd Andrew Singleton, age 24, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop B, 2D Squadron, 5Th Cavalry, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Sunday, April 8, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Anthony Oneil Cardinal, age 20, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hht, 3D Squadron, 7Th Cavalry, 2 Bct, Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Sunday, December 25, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Willie Jr. McCloud, age 20, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Parents: Willie L. McCloud
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, August 6, 1971
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1971)
Kenneth Jerome Simmons, age 21, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Parents: Donald K. Simmons
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, July 18, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Michael Craig Rockey, age 21, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Parents: Joan L. Rockey
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, June 7, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives., Associated Press (1970)
Robert Henry Goosen, age 20, from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Parents: Stanley H. Goosen
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 101st Airborne Division
Date of death: Friday, March 13, 1970
Death details: Hostile, died of wounds suffered Feb. 7, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
James Robert Klimo from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: November 4, 1969
Death details: On November 4, 1969, a UH-1H Iroquois (#67-19512) took off from Duc Lap, South Vietnam on a nighttime flight to Nha Trang, South Vietnam. Weather conditions were poor. Shortly after a radio communication reporting the helicopter’s position near Duc My Pass, an air traffic controller at Ninh Hoa received an emergency distress message from the crew. There was no further contact and the helicopter never reached its destination. Search and rescue operations began the next morning as soon as there was daylight for visibility and continued for six days, but search personnel were unable to locate the helicopter, a crash site, or any of the crew members.
Sergeant First Class James Robert Klimo, who entered the U.S. Army from Michigan, served with the 281st Aviation Company, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade and was the door gunner on this UH-1 at the time of its loss. He remains unaccounted for. Today, Sergeant First Class Klimo is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Roland P. Faulknor, age 24, from Michigan, Muskegon county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 20, 1944
Death details: The Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, one of the bloodiest conflicts of World War II, was fought between Allied and German forces from September 1944 to February 1945. As U.S. forces advanced eastward into Germany, the defending Germans manned “Siegfried Line” positions opposite the Belgian border. The battle grew to involve approximately 200,000 troops, with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides. American forces initially entered the area seeking to block German reinforcements from moving north toward the fighting around Aachen, the westernmost city of Germany, near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. In the battle’s second phase and as part of the Allied’s larger offense toward the Rhine River, U.S. troops attempted to push through the forest to the banks of Roer River. Aided by bad weather and rough terrain, German forces in the Hürtgen Forest put up unexpectedly strong resistance due to a well-prepared defense. American forces were unable to break through to the Rur before the German Ardennes offensive struck in December 1944, known as the Battle of the Bulge, which halted the eastward Allied advance until February 1945. Private Roland P. Faulknor, who joined the U.S. Army from Michigan, was a member of Company K, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, which took part in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. Private Faulknor was reported missing in action following his unit’s attack on strong enemy positions at the Raffelsbrand sector of the Hürtgen Forest, south of Germeter, Germany, in October 1944. A German casualty card reported his death, indicating that German soldiers initially recovered his remains. However, the German records do not list a place of burial. Efforts by American graves registration teams to recover his remains after the war were unsuccessful. Today, Private Faulknor is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency