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Andrew Peter Wallace, age 25, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 127Th Infantry (Mnci) Fond Du Lac, Wi
Date of death: Monday, September 26, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Shaibah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Benjamin Donald Jansky, age 28, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 983D Engineer Battalion (Mnc-I), Monclova, Oh
Date of death: Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Death details: Al Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brent Thomas Vroman, age 21, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 24Th Mar, (24Th Meu), 4Th Mar Div, Milwaukee, Wi
Date of death: Monday, December 13, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Yusufiyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael Charles Anderson, age 36, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Nmcb Fourteen, Jacksonville, Florida
Date of death: Sunday, May 2, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
David James Watson, age 21, from Winnebago County Oshkosh, Wisconsin .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, November 9, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)
Richard Jay Hentz, age 23, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Spouse: Debra H. Hentz
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 4, 1971
Death details: On March 4, 1971, a JU-21 LEFT JAB (tail number 18065, call sign “Vanguard 216”) with a crew of five departed Phu Bai Air Base, South Vietnam, on a signal intelligence collection mission over Quang Tri Province. The aircraft’s last radio communication was from a location near the Demilitarized Zone where an enemy artillery regiment was believed to be located and where witnesses saw an aerial explosion. Search and rescue efforts were carried out for two days, but were unsuccessful. Specialist 5 Richard Jay Hentz, who joined the U.S. Army from Wisconsin, served with the 138th Aviation Company, 224th Aviation Battalion, 509th Radio Research Group. He was a crew member aboard the LEFT JAB when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Specialist 5 Hentz is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Riverside, Oshkosh
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com, Associated Press (1971)
Francis Pedro Valdez, age 21, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Parents: Pedrow Valdez
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, June 7, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam. He was scheduled for discharge the following month.
Source: National Archives
Dean Louis Bonneau, age 20, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, May 4, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Cemetery: Riverside
Source: National Archives, Oshkosh Northwestern (1970)
Gregory William Stoddart, age 21, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Spouse: Ethel L. Stoddart
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, April 6, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Raymond Alfred Nusser, age 24, from Winnebago County Oshkosh, Wisconsin .
Parents: William George Musser
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Oshkosh Northwestern (1941)