Joshua Davis, age 19, from Perry, Iowa, Dallas county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Perry High (2009).
Military history: 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Date of death: Friday, May 7, 2010
Death details: Died in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Source: KCCT, KCRG, Iowa Governor Office, Department of Defense
Daniel Garber, age 24, of Perry, Iowa
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Friday, March 6, 1998
Death details: SH-60B “”Seahawk”” of Light Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 47 crashed during a flight from its home base at Naval Air Station North Island, California.
Source: U.S. Navy, Associated Press
Robert H. Nead, age 23, from Dallas County Perry, Iowa .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, April 24, 1945
Death details: On April 24, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress (serial number 42-94206) with a crew of eleven departed Guam for a bombing mission against enemy installations in Tachikawa, Japan. Just after it dropped its bombs, this plane caught fire and entered a slow downward turn to the right before crashing and burning on the ground. Six members of the crew were killed in the crash. Their remains were later recovered near the crash site and identified. Five members of the crew bailed out and were taken to a military prison in Tokyo, where they later died during an airstrike. The remains of two of those men were later recovered and identified, but the remains of the other three could not be located. Sergeant Robert H. Nead joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Iowa and served in the 881st Bombardment Squadron, 500th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was the radio operator on board Z-11 when the bomber was shot down and was captured by Japanese forces and taken to the Tokyo Military Prison in Shibuya. He was lost in the fire on May 26 and his remains have not been recovered. He remains unaccounted for. Today, Sergeant Nead is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Military Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Carroll Daily Times Herald (1945)