Leroy Otis Webster, age 28, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery B, 3Rd Battalion, 82Nd Field Artillery, 2 Bct, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of death: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Death details: Hostile; Kirkuk, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremy Dale Vrooman, age 28, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 4Th Squadron, 2D Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Estell Lee Turner, age 43, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company E, 1St Battalion, 506Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Date of death: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Bethesda, United States
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremy Lee Bohlman, age 21, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Spouse: Lindsey
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Washington High, Sioux Falls (1996-2000)
Military history: H&S Co, Det 1St Lar, Hqbn, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Monday, June 7, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dale Lloyd Hoover, age 20, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, September 26, 1950
Death details: On September 26, 1950, the USS Brush (DD 745) was positioned off the coast of North Korea, shelling enemy targets near Tanchon. During this operation, the Brush struck an enemy underwater mine, and thirteen men were lost in the resulting explosion.
Fireman Dale Lloyd Hoover, who joined the U.S. Navy from South Dakota, was serving aboard the Brush on September 26, 1950. He was blown overboard and killed in the explosion, and his remains have not been recovered. Today, Fireman Hoover is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1970)
Robert Henry Lock, age 21, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 4, 1945
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Charles John McGill from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 18, 1944
Death details: He was aboard the destroyer USS Hull as it operated as part of the Fast Carrier Strike Force in the Philippine Sea. On December 17, 1944, the Hull was participating in refueling operations when the ships of its fueling group were engulfed by Typhoon Cobra. The Hull lost its ability to steer amid the enormous waves and began taking on water. The Hull eventually took on too much water to stay afloat and rolled and sank shortly before noon, on December 18. Sixty-two crew members were rescued, but a little more than two-hundred crew members were lost in the sinking.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Robert Louis Jr. Chamblin, age 23, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, November 7, 1944
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Floyd Fleitz from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease
Cemetery: Mount Pleasant in Sioux Falls
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com