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Jon Bailey St John II, age 25, from Neenah, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hht, 2D Squadron, 8Th Cavalry, 1 Bct, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Saturday, January 27, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Andrew Peter Wallace, age 25, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 127Th Infantry (Mnci) Fond Du Lac, Wi
Date of death: Monday, September 26, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Shaibah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Benjamin Donald Jansky, age 28, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 983D Engineer Battalion (Mnc-I), Monclova, Oh
Date of death: Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Death details: Al Taqaddum, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brent Thomas Vroman, age 21, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 24Th Mar, (24Th Meu), 4Th Mar Div, Milwaukee, Wi
Date of death: Monday, December 13, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Yusufiyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael Charles Anderson, age 36, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Nmcb Fourteen, Jacksonville, Florida
Date of death: Sunday, May 2, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Scott Brian Westphal, age 22, from Winnebago County Menasha, Wisconsin .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, February 21, 1972
Source: National Archives, Oshkosh Northwestern (1972)
David James Watson, age 21, from Winnebago County Oshkosh, Wisconsin .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, November 9, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)
Richard Jay Hentz, age 23, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Spouse: Debra H. Hentz
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, March 4, 1971
Death details: On March 4, 1971, a JU-21 LEFT JAB (tail number 18065, call sign “Vanguard 216”) with a crew of five departed Phu Bai Air Base, South Vietnam, on a signal intelligence collection mission over Quang Tri Province. The aircraft’s last radio communication was from a location near the Demilitarized Zone where an enemy artillery regiment was believed to be located and where witnesses saw an aerial explosion. Search and rescue efforts were carried out for two days, but were unsuccessful. Specialist 5 Richard Jay Hentz, who joined the U.S. Army from Wisconsin, served with the 138th Aviation Company, 224th Aviation Battalion, 509th Radio Research Group. He was a crew member aboard the LEFT JAB when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. Today, Specialist 5 Hentz is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Riverside, Oshkosh
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com, Associated Press (1971)
James Leonard Smith, age 26, from Larsen, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Parents: Leonard A. Schmidt
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 28, 1970
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Harvey George Jacobson, age 22, from Menasha, Wisconsin, Winnebago county.
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Menasha High
Date of death: Friday, December 18, 1970
Cemetery: Green Lawn Memorial Park in Neenah
Source: National Archives, Appleton Post Crescent