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Kurt Russell Frosheiser, age 22, from Des Moines, Iowa, Polk county.
Parents: Jeanie Hudson-Holton and Chris Fosheiser
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc 2Nd Battalion 6Th Infantry, 1St Armored Division, Apo Ae 09034
Date of death: Saturday, November 8, 2003
Death details: Killed as the vehicle he was in passed an improvised explosive device that was detonated by someone nearby.
Source: Department of Defense, Iles Funeral Homes
Paul Francis Fisher, age 39, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Linn county.
Spouse: Karen
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Detchment 1 Company F 106Th Aviation Battalion, Davenport, Ia 52804
Date of death: Thursday, November 6, 2003
Death details: Helicopter was shot down Nov. 2, 2003 by a surface to air missile near Fallujah, Iraq. He later died in a hospital in Hamburg, Germany.
Cemetery: Cedar Memorial Park
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Bruce Alan Smith, age 41, from West Liberty, Iowa, Muscatine county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Detachment 1 Company F 106Th Aviation Battalion, Davenport, Ia 52804
Date of death: Sunday, November 2, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Al Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
David Michael Kirchhoff, age 31, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Linn county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 2133Rd Transportation Company, Centerville, Iowa
Parents: Larry and Nancy Kirchhoff
Spouse: Brooke
Children: David Kirchoff and Sean Patrick Lekin; stepdaughters Ashley RaeAnne, Aubrey Joe and April Rain
Date of death: Thursday, August 14, 2003
Death details: Died in Landstuhl, Germany after suffering a heat stroke in Iraq, where temperatures reached 125 to 130 degrees
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael John Deutsch, age 21, from Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop C 1St Squadron 1 Armored Cavalry, Apo Ae 09076
Date of death: Thursday, July 31, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Matt Anderson., age 21, of Chariton, Iowa
Parents: Keith and Joyce Anderson
Schools: Chariton High (1990), Iowa State University
Service era: Operation Restore Hope (Somalia)
Date of death: Saturday, September 25, 1993
Death details: While flying on a night reconnaissance mission over Mogadishu, Somalia’s capitol city, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired from a roof top. It went through the open side door of the helicopter and exploded, killing Matthew and two other soldiers in the back.
Source: White House Commission on Rememberance, Iowa State University
Steven Douglas Clark, age 22, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Linn county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Wednesday, November 7, 1990
Death details: Killed in the Middle East when he was crushed by a truck in a non-combat incident
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense
Edward E. Kimm, age 33, from Cass County Atlantic, Iowa .
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut. His older brother died in Vietnam.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Hanford Sentinel (1983)
Dwight William Cook from Center Point, Iowa, Linn county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, September 21, 1972
Death details: On September 29, 1995, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of First Lieutenant Dwight William Cook, missing from the Vietnam War.
First Lieutenant Cook joined the U.S. Air Force from Iowa and was a member of the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 21, 1972, he was the weapons systems officer aboard an F-4D Phantom II (tail number 66-8769) on a strike mission over northern Laos. First Lieutenant Cook’s aircraft was downed by anti-aircraft fire during the mission and he was killed in the crash. His body could not be recovered at the time. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Laotian search team recovered remains from a crash site associated with 1st Lt Cook’s loss. The next year, U.S. analysts identified the remains as those of 1st Lt Cook.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John Russell Pitzen from Stacyville, Iowa, Mitchell county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: August 17, 1972
Death details: On February 20, 1996, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA) identified the remains of Commander John Russell Pitzen, missing from the Vietnam War.
Commander Pitzen entered the U.S. Navy from Iowa and was a member of Fighter Squadron 114, Carrier Air Wing 11. On August 17, 1972, he piloted an F-4J Phantom II (bureau number 157262, call sign “Linfield 211”) that took off from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) to escort attack aircraft on a night strike mission against an enemy target in North Vietnam. During the mission, his aircraft was struck by an enemy surface-to-air missile that caused it to crash near Haiphong, killing CDR Pitzen. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1991, U.S. investigators received human remains from a refugee source that correlated with a crash site near Yen Duc Village; between 1992 and 1996, a joint investigation team traveled to the crash site where excavations recovered artifacts and additional human remains, and in 1996, they were able to identify CDR Pitzen from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency