Paul Edward Wolfe, age 20, from Tucumcari, New Mexico, Roosevelt county.
Parents: Elmer L. Wolfe
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, December 2, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Gilberto Garcia, age 19, from Quay County Tucumcari, New Mexico .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 22, 1966
Death details: Killed when an American Flyers airliner smashed into a mountainside southeast of Ardmore, Oklahoma. The plane was enroute to Fort Benning Georgia for Fort Ord, California
Source: Associated Press (1966)
Templeman Norwood Jr. Mabry, age 36, from Quay County Tucumcari, New Mexico .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Death details: Killed aboard the atomic submarine Thresher when the ship went missing 220 miles East of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Source: ussthresher.com, Associated Press (1963), oneternalpatrol.com
Juan Quintana, age 21, from Quay County Tucumcari, New Mexico .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, July 28, 1950
Death details: In late July 1950, elements of the 27th Infantry Regiment, 8th Cavalry Regiment, and other units in the 25th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were tasked with blocking a North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) advance down the Poun-Hwanggan Highway, toward Kumch’on, roughly thirty-five miles west of Taegu. On July 23 and 24, U.S. units fought a series of engagements against the advancing NKPA forces. Heavy enemy artillery fire barrages forced the U.S. units back slowly until they began to withdraw to new positions on July 26. Over the next three days, the units withdrew and consolidated in Kumch’on, though many American soldiers died, were captured, or went missing during this action.
Private First Class Juan Quintana, who joined the U.S. Army from New Mexico, served with C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was killed by enemy mortar fire on July 28 as his unit made a fighting withdrawal down the highway toward Kumchon. Due to conditions on the battlefield, his body could not be immediately recovered, and when U.S. forces eventually regained control of the area where he fell, they were unable to locate his remains despite extensive and repeated searches. Today, Private First Class Quintana is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Albuquerque Tribune (1953)