Nathan Ross Elrod, age 20, from Salisbury, North Carolina, Rowan county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Wpns Co, 1St Bn, 6Th Mar, (1-1 Ad, I Mef Fwd), 2D Mar Div, Camp Lejeune, Nc
Date of death: Saturday, October 21, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Gregory Leonard Wahl, age 30, from Salisbury, North Carolina, Rowan county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 4 Ar F Troop, Vilseck, Ge, Apo Ae 09112
Date of death: Monday, May 3, 2004
Death details: Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Roger Lynn Teeter, age 24, from Salisbury, North Carolina, Rowan county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 28, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Charlotte Observer, Associated Press (1970)
Joe Hearne Rufty, age 25, from Salisbury, North Carolina, Rowan county.
Spouse: Jane A. Rufty
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, January 29, 1970
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Scott Terry Welborne, age 19, from Rowan County Salisbury, North Carolina .
Parents: Scott T. and Mary (McDowell) Welborne
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, April 5, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, The Republican (1966)
Edwin Everton Morgan, age 38, from Rowan County Salisbury, North Carolina .
Parents: Dossey E. Morgan
Spouse: Ava E. Morgan
Children: Frances, 6
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, March 13, 1966
Death details: On March 4, 2015, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Master Sergeant Edwin Everton Morgan, missing from the Vietnam War. Chief Master Sergeant Morgan entered the U.S. Air Force from North Carolina and was a member of the 4th Air Commando Squadron. On March 13, 1966, he was the loadmaster aboard an AC-47D Spooky (tail number 4349268) with six other crew members that departed Da Nang Air Base for an armed reconnaissance mission over a portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. The aircraft crashed during the mission and CMSgt Morgan was killed in the incident, but his remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1997, a joint U.S./Laotian investigation team discovered the missing AC-47D’s crash site and conducted excavations between 2010 and 2014 that recovered human remains. Modern forensic techniques eventually identified CMSgt Morgan among the remains recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Charlotte Observer (1966)
Robert Maxwell Jr. Brown, age 21, from Rowan County Salisbury, North Carolina .
Parents: Robert M. Brown
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, December 12, 1965
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Salisbury Post (1965)
Thomas B. Royster, age 24, from Salisbury, North Carolina, Wake county.
Parents: Waldo Moser Efird
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, November 22, 1943
Death details: Rout, Albert Melvin
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency