Jerry D. II Reed, age 30, from Russelville, Arkansas.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Separate Infantry Brigade, Grafenwoehr, Germany.
Date of death: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Death details: Died in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. Department of Defense didn’t provide additional information.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Kevin Ronald Bewley, age 27, from Hector, Arkansas.
Parents: Connie Whitaker
Spouse: Divorced
Children: Daughter, 4
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Eod Mob Un 11
Date of death: Monday, November 5, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Bayji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ricky Lynn Bowden, age 20, from Pottsville, Arkansas, Pope county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, February 10, 1970
Source: National Archives
Richard Henry Langford, age 23, from Pope County Dover, Arkansas .
Spouse: Barbara Ann Langford
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 23, 1965
Death details: Killed by enemy fire while charting a section of South Vietnamese seacost for possible landings.
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1965), Associated Press (1965)
Guy Thomas Freeland, age 35, from Pope County Russellville, Arkansas .
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, December 8, 1964
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when his outpost was attacked.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1964)
Fred J. Wallace from Arkansas, Pope county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: 808 Military Police Company
Date of death: Tuesday, June 2, 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. Technician Fifth Grade Fred J. Wallace, who entered the U.S. Army from Arkansas, served with the 808th Military Police Company and was stationed in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion. He died on June 2, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province and was buried by a fellow prisoner in an unmarked grave. However, efforts to recover and identify his remains after the war were unsuccessful. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Technician Fifth Grade Wallace is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Lewis Aubrey Turner from Pope County Atkins, Arkansas .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Associated Press (1941)