Lloyd Elden McLaughlin from Cuming County Bancroft, Nebraska .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Body not recovered
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Victor L. Meyers, age 23, from Furnas County Nebraska.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed in action at Hickam Field
Source: National Archives, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Max Valdyne Peery, age 17, from Nuckolls County Nelson, Nebraska .
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
Walter Ray Pentico, age 17, from Dawson County Lexington, Nebraska .
Parents: Ethel and Sherman Pentico
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: On February 24, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman Second Class Walter R. Pentico, missing from World War II. Seaman Second Class Pentico joined the U.S. Navy from Nebraska. He was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on December 7, 1941, when the ship came under attack from Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Oklahoma capsized in the attack, and SEA2 Pentico was killed in the incident. His remains were eventually recovered from the ship following the attack; however, they could not be identified at the time, and they were buried as unknown remains at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to reexamine unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma using advances in forensic techniques. SEA2 Pentico’s remains were exhumed and identified as part of this effort.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Greenwood in Lexington
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Neal Jason Radford, age 26, from Buffalo County Newark, Nebraska .
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, Department of Defene, Omaha World Herald (1942)
Tom Savin from Douglas County Omaha, Nebraska .
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, Omaha World Herald (1943)
Elmer Pershing Schlund, age 22, from Buffalo County Saint Michael, Nebraska .
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, Omaha World Herald (1943)
William Alfred Shannon, age 20, from Webster County Red Cloud, Nebraska .
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, Sioux City Journal, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Patterson News (1943)
George Allen Thompson, age 20, from Douglas County Omaha, Nebraska .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for October 29, 2018
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Lincoln Star (1942)
Walter Sorensen, age 19, from Douglas County Omaha, Nebraska .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, October 31, 1941
Death details: Died in the sinking of the destoryer USS Reuben James
Source: Los Angeles Times (1941), Evening World Herald (1941)