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Edwin Nelson Odgaard, age 24, from Humboldt County Humboldt, Iowa .
Parents: Chris N. Odgaard
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Utah
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Des Moines Register (1943)
Forrest Hurbert Perry, age 22, from Worth County Northwood, Iowa .
Parents: Henry Perry
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Utah
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Des Moines Register (1942)
Ralph Edward Scott, age 19, from Dubuque County Dubuque, Iowa .
Parents: Clifford Scott
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Utah
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Des Moines Register (1942)
Claire E. Morrison, age 21, from Grundy Center County Grundy Center, Iowa .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Thursday, January 16, 1919
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Carl M. Linnell, age 27, from Sac County Schaller, Iowa .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Wednesday, October 9, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Robert E. Hindman, age 19, from Woodbury County Hornick, Iowa .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, September 28, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Jay Leonard, age 22, from Aplington, Iowa.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Thursday, September 26, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Dunkard Cemetery, Linn County
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, grave marker
Ernest W. Wood, age 31, from Taylor County Iowa.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, September 17, 1918
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Robert E. Mowrey from Pottawattamie County Council Bluffs, Iowa .
Parents: Ray Mowrey
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Earl Carlyle Stiles, age 26, from Pottawattamie County Council Bluffs, Iowa .
Parents: Orval Stiles
Service era: Korea
Schools: Thomas Jefferson High
Military history: Servved almost three years in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II and renelisted shortly after the war ended.
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant Earl Carlyle Stiles, who joined the U.S. Army from Iowa, served with C Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. Sergeant Stiles was captured on December 1, 1950, as his unit pushed through a roadblock near Sonchu. He was marched with other prisoners of war to Camp 5 at Pyokyong, North Korea, where he died of malnutrition and dysentery on an unspecified date in May 1951. He was buried at Camp 5; however, his remains have not been among those returned to U.S. custody. Sergeant Stiles is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Daily Nonpareil (1954)