Nicholas Allen Berger, age 24, from Savanna, Illinois, Carroll county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 7, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives
Joseph Vern Redmond, age 25, from Savanna, Illinois, Carroll county.
Parents: Gordon Redmond
Spouse: Linda (Becker); married June 26, 1965
Children: Jody Lynn, Timothy Paul
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, May 7, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Quad City Times (1970)
Thomas Malcolm Hergert, age 47, from Carroll County Savanna, Illinois .
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, March 8, 1964
Death details: Killed when his fighter plane was shot down in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1964)
Orville Melvin Cook from Savanna, Illinois, Carroll county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Wednesday, July 18, 1951
Death details: Lieutenant Orville Melvin Cook, who joined the U.S. Navy from Illinois, served with Fighter Squadron 874 embarked aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV 31). On July 19, 1951, piloting an AD3 Skyraider (bureau number 122760), he took off from the Bon Homme Richard as part of a six aircraft flight on a combat mission over North Korea. The flight encountered intense anti-aircraft fire over their target, a bridge north of Maemol. On his third dive over the bridge, LT Cook’s aircraft was hit by enemy fire. Other flight members searched a 10 mile radius around the target area but never found the crash site. LT Cook was not reported to be a prisoner of war, and his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Lieutenant Cook is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Beryle Grissinger, age 18, from Savanna, Illinois, Carroll county.
Parents: Harry B. Grissinger
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, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency