Pawnee County Oklahoma

Tucker, James Hale
Air Force Major

James Hale Tucker from Pawnee, Oklahoma, Pawnee county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, April 26, 1966

Death dedails:  On April 26, 1966, an RF-4C Phantom II (tail number 64-1045) carrying two crew members took off on a photographic reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. As expected, radar contact with the Phantom was lost as it moved toward its target; however, contact was not reestablished with the crew, and the aircraft failed to return from its mission. Search teams found no sign of the missing Phantom or its crew members.

First Lieutenant James Hale Tucker, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Oklahoma, was a member of the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He was a crew member aboard the Phantom when it went missing, and was lost along with the aircraft. His remains have not been recovered. Following the incident, the Air Force promoted 1LT Tucker to Major (Maj). Today, Major Tucker is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Foust, Albert C. Jr.
Army Corporal

Albert C. Jr. Foust, age 18, from Pawnee County Pawnee, Oklahoma .

Parents: A. C. Foust

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Saturday, June 17, 1944
Death details: He was aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber that went missing in the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Pawnee Chief (1944)

Box, Paul L.
Army Sergeant

Paul L. Box from Oklahoma, Pawnee county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Friday, October 29, 1943
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National

Source: National Archives, grave marker

Walker, James M.
Army Corporal

James M. Walker from Oklahoma, Pawnee county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Friday, January 1, 1943
Death details:

On March 19, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Cpl. James M. Walker, missing from World War II.

Walker entered the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured following the American surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, and forced on the Bataan Death March. He was ultimately interned in the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province, where he died of dysentery on January 1, 1943. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. 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. PFC Harris was buried in Common Grave 822 at the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery along with other deceased American POWs. Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. One of the sets of remains from Common Grave 822 was identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable and were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial as Unknowns. In 2020, as part of the Cabanatuan Project, the remains associated with Common Grave 822 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of these unknown remains and Walker.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

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