Aaron D. Istre from Vinton, Louisiana, Calcasieu county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: HHC, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), Fort Hood, Texas.
Date of death: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Death details: Died in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Michael Hennen, age 26, from Vinton, Louisiana, Calcasieu county.
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Vinton High graduate
Military history: Joint Force Headquarters, Detachment 2, New Orleans, La
Date of death: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Death details: Died in Panjway, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Gurnie J. Richard from Calcasieu County Vinton, Louisiana .
Parents: Lester Richard
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, November 25, 1942
Death details: On Aug. 26, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Technician Fifth Grade Gurnie J. Richard, missing from World War II. Richard joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Louisianna and was a member of the 17th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group, which fought as infantry during the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. Richard was captured following the American surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, and forced on the Bataan Death March. He was ultimately interned in the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province, where he died of illness on Nov. 25, 1942. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war who were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. 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. Richard was buried in Common Grave 706 at the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery along with other deceased American POWs. Following the war, American Graves Registration Service personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the American Graves Registration Service examined the remains from Common Grave 706 in an attempt to identify them. Those remains which could not be identified at the time were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial as Unknowns. In 2019, as part of the Cabanatuan Project, the unidentified remains associated with Common Grave 706 were disinterred and sent to a DPAA laboratory for scientific analysis. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of unknown remains and Richard.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Morning Advocate (1943)
John Eston Arledge, age 24, from Vinton, Louisiana, Calcasieu county.
Parents: John Thomas Arledge
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Daily Advertiser (1941)
William Edison Stoddard, age 21, from Vinton, Louisiana, Calcasieu county.
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