Jason T Palmerton, age 25, from Auburn, Nebraska, Nemaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 1St Battalion, 3D Sfg (A), (Tf Cjsotf-A), Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Saturday, July 23, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Qal’Eh-Yegaz, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Albert J. Foyt, age 39, from Nemaha County Auburn, Nebraska .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, January 9, 1945
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
William W. Bradner, age 29, from Nebraska, Nemaha county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 15, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor and food and water supplied extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Technical Sergeant William W. Bradner joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Nebraska and was a member of the 28th Materials Squadron, 20th Air Base Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of dysentery on November 15, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Technical Sergeant Bradner is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Cemetery: Manila American
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
White S. Jr. Goings from Nebraska, Nemaha county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, July 19, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Sergeant White S. Goings Jr. entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Nebraska and served in the 93rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, in the Philippines during World War II. The 93rd Bombardment Squadron arrived in the Philippines in October 1941 and was stationed at Clark Field on Luzon Island. Two days before the Japanese attack, the 93rd began to move its B-17 Flying Fortresses to Del Monte Air Field on Mindanao Island. When the Japanese attacked the Philippines on December 8, 1941, half of the 93rd Squadron’s B-17s that had not relocated to Del Monte were destroyed on the ground at Clark Field. In late December, the few surviving aircraft were ordered to Australia, while the air crews and ground personnel who remained in the Philippines were ordered to the Bataan Peninsula to fight as infantry. Sergeant Goings was with his unit when Allied Forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese, and afterwards he was forced on the Bataan Death March. Following the march, he was interned at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, where he died on July 19, 1942. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Sergeant Goings is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency