Kenneth E. Cochran, age 20, from Wilder, Idaho, Canyon county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
Date of death: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Death details: Died conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense., Military Times
Charles S. Atteberry, age 26, from Wilder, Idaho, Canyon county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, January 17, 1945
Death details: On June 4, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Charles S. Atteberry, missing from World War II.
Atteberry entered in the U.S. Army from Idaho and served in the 51st Infantry Division in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured by enemy forces during the Japanese invasion of the islands in April 1942 and was interned in the Philippines until Dec. 13, 1944, when Japanese forces in the Philippines began the transfer of 1,621 Allied prisoners of war to Japan aboard transport ships whose harsh conditions and extreme overcrowding led survivors to refer to them as “Hell Ships.” On Dec. 14, unaware of the POWs onboard, Allied aircraft attacked the first ship, the Oryoku Maru, in Subic Bay in the Philippines. Survivors of the bombing were put aboard two other ships, the Enoura Maru and the Brazil Maru, to continue on to Japan. On Jan. 13, after U.S. forces attacked and sank the Enoura Maru, Japanese authorities reported that Atteberry was placed aboard the Brazil Maru bound for Moji, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, where he died days later and was reported to have been buried at sea. However, casualty reports from the Japanese government to the International Red Cross contained numerous errors. Initially, the Department of the Army recorded a date of death for Atteberry as Dec. 15, 1944, based on International Red Cross reporting, but later updated it to Jan. 17, 1945. Following the end of the war, the U.S. Army tasked the American Graves Registration Command with investigating and recovering missing American personnel. In May 1946, an American Graves Registration Command Search and Recovery Team exhumed a mass grave on a beach at Takao, Formosa, recovering 311 bodies. However, the remains could not be identified at the time and were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu as unknowns. Between October 2022 and July 2023, DPAA disinterred unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific linked to the Enoura Maru and sent the remains to the DPAA Laboratory for further study and forensic analysis. The laboratory analysis and the total evidence available identified one set of the remains as those of Atteberry.
Parents: Orville E. Atteberry
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Idaho Statesman (1945)