Tane Travis Baum, age 30, from Pendleton, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 113Th Aviation Regiment, (Tf Griffin), Pendleton, Or
Date of death: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Death details: Died when his CH-47 Chinock helicopter crashed southwest of Deh Chopan, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Adrian Bovee Stump, age 22, from Pendleton, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 113Th Aviation Regiment (Tf Griffin) Pendleton, Or
Date of death: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Death details: Died when his CH-47 Chinock helicopter crashed southwest of Deh Chopan, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James Benton Jr Huston, age 22, from Hermiston, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 1St Mar, Rct-1, 1St Mardiv, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Friday, July 2, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Robert Anthony Stever, age 36, from Pendleton, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc 3D Battalion, 15Th Infantry, Fort Stewart, Georgia
Date of death: Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Melvin Donald Barnett, age 20, from Weston, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Parents: Donald W. Barnett
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, September 23, 1971
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)
John William Murphy, age 20, from Pendleton, Oregon, Umatilla county.
Parents: Mrs. Keith Hallmark
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 14, 1970
Death details: Killed on a helicopter mission in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Leroy M. Slenker, age 28, from Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 15, 1942
Death details: On February 3, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private Leroy M. Slenker, missing from World War II. Private Slenker entered the U.S. Army from Oregon and served in the 75th Ordnance Depot Company in the Philippines. He was captured on Corregidor Island following the American surrender on May 6, 1942, and died of dysentery on November 15, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs. After the war, U.S. personnel recovered remains from the camp cemeteries, but most could not be identified with the technology available at the time and were buried as Unknowns at the Manila American Cemetery. In 2018, as part of the Cabanatuan Project, the DPAA exhumed Unknown remains associated with Communal Grave 271, one of the grave sites at Cabanatuan. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of remains as those of Private Slenker.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
James A. Russel, age 22, from Oregon, Umatilla county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, June 21, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private James A. Russel entered the U.S. Army from Oregon and served in Company B, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender and died of dysentery and malnutrition on June 21, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private Russel is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency