Died in Service Provided by Darrell Widman Last First Middle DOB DOD WAR Comments Bader Daniel A 9/26/75 11/2/03 Iraq US Army BSM PH MSM - Killed in Iraq Beck Leslie 1900 1918 WW I Died in Service Berney Terry Vietnam US Army - Killed in action - Buried in Wolbach Brannan Eugene WW II Killed in Action - Germany Burton Robert Harvey 1890 1918 WW I Died in Service Christensen Loyd R 5/21/21 12/7/41 WW II Killed in Action on USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor Clayton Gerald 1/30/20 12/7/41 WW II Killed In Acton On USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor Davis Austin C 3/13/18 6/30/44 WW II US Army Air Force - Killed in Action, Buried in ST. Avold Metz France Dittmer Hans Hugo 1893 7/21/18 WW I US Army 4th Inf - Killed in Action - France Fieselman Max A 4/12/19 5/17/45 WW II Died in Service - Truck Accident Krumback, Germany - 3354 QM TRK CO Finalayson Merle E 4/4/23 11/4/45 WW II US Army Tec5 - Died in Service - Auto Accident Frizzerel Carol 1944 WW II KIA ??? Galusha Eugene Rex 12/5/19 2/28/42 WW II Nebraska HA1 US Navy Killed in Action on USS Houston *Grosvenor Reginald C 1905 1944 WW II Killed in Action - Osaka Japan Hagman Allen E 8/4/18 5/24/44 WW II C1SNK - Killed In Action at Biak Island Hannappel Henry 12/10/10 10/3/44 WW II Nebraska PFC 350th Inf SS Div Died in Service Hansen Vernon Leroy 6/2/21 10/7/43 WW II POW Wake Island 12/24/1941 Killed 10/7/1943 by Japanese Held Morris E 1906 1942 WW II Missing in Action USQMC Philippines Islands with last Defenders of Corregidor Hensley Wendell B 10/22/11 WW II Missing in Action 4/11/1944 338th Bomb SQ 96 Bomb Group Jerome Charles C 1915 1942 WW II Coxswain - Lost at Sea - USS Ashville - Battle of Java Sea Kmiecik Louis E WW II Killed in Action Kurz Dennis Lee 5/12/47 1/29/69 Vietnam EN 3 US Navy - Killed In Action - on a river boat Laska Carl 8/7/21 6/16/42 WW II Grave 52 Manila, Bataan Death March Died in Prison Camp Lemmermann Robert C 1/1/24 6/8/44 WW II US Navy - Killed in action Mace Donald N 1923 1943 WW II Killed in Action- Buried at Nettuno (Anzio) Italy Majewski Martin 1896 6/8/18 WW I Died in Srvice Manning Andrew Franklin WW II Killed in Action - Army Air Forces - Tail Gunner B-17 - Buried in Belgium McMahon Farrell Clement WW II Killed in Action Merritt Max H 7/26/24 2/28/51 WW II Korea Tec4 551 SIG ACFT Wing BN BSM - PH - Died in Service Moore Chester O 11/25/1891 10/18/18 WW I US Army - Died in Service Olafson Robert E. 4/5/05 1944 WW II Marine - Buried at Sea Osterman Robert E 7/17/23 5/3/45 WW II Co L 184th Reg 7th Div - Killed in Action on Okinawa Persinger James Donald 1900 9/29/18 WW I US Navy - Died in Service Place John Wayne 5/13/25 6/9/45 WW II PFC 32nd Inf - Killed in Action - Okinawa Roach Georgia May WW II Killed in Action - Nurse Shonsey Thomas B 2/3/1899 7/21/18 WW I Killed In Acton Shull Jr. Clarence M 4/3/20 9/5/43 WW II 2nd Lt US Army Air Forces - H Huct GP - Killed in Action - Europe Starostka Louis T. 7/11/17 9/1/44 WW II PFC 179 INF. NEB - KIA ??? Stuart Marvin Eugene WW II Killed in Action - Solomon Islands - On USS Enterprize - Buried at Sea Stubbe William L 4/25/45 10/1/66 Vietnam Nebraska PFC Co A 2nd BN 173ABN BDE - Killed in Action Wegner Richard C 8/23/22 11/24/44 WW II PFC - Killed In Acton - Shuley France, Thankgiving Day Zoucha Brent B 8/26/86 6/9/06 Iraq Killed in Action - Lcpl USMC Berryman Roy WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Beyer William WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Brown Andrew WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Gilmer John Earl WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Graves Theodore Elmer WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Kamper William WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Loos Julius L WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Royal Joe F. WW I Died in Service - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published CC Library Kamper Martin WW II Killed in Action - Lost at sea - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published Tom Shull Schmidt Robert WW II Killed in Action - No Memoral Stone Added after list was published Tom Shull Tracy Henry WW II Killed in Action - 1st Lt US Army Air Forces - Pilot on a B-17 No Memoral Stone Added after list was published Myers Dean Everett WW II Died in Service Nebraska PFC 21st Regt USMC 3rd Div Deceased Veterans with Items of Distinction Last First Middle DOB DOD WAR Comments Johnston David H 1838 1931 Civil War MEDAL OF HONOR at Vicksburg, PVT Co K, 8th Missouri Infantry Baird Robert G 10/25/13 2/13/97 WW II Sgt US Army - Silver Star - Purple Heart Barkmeier Paul "Bruce" 11/9/34 7/26/07 Vietnam USMC 3 Purple Hearts Ehlers Floyd 7/5/18 5/5/85 WW II SGT. US ARMY BRONZE STAR Haddix Loral 1922 1979 WW II CPL US ARMY - PRISONER OF WAR - GERMANY Hansher Corbert L (Corky) 2/6/20 6/10/03 WW II TSgt US Army Bronze Star Medal Howe Ronald Clauson 6/26/18 12/12/90 WW II Sgt US Army Bronze Star Medal Jacobi Marvin William 11/18/16 4/3/01 WW II PFC US Army Purple Heart Johnson Leslie 2/9/19 2/9/1997 WW II POW Germany Johnson Walter D. 5/2/21 3/6/87 WW II T. Sgt, Army Air Corp - POW Germany Karner Joseph J 6/6/13 6/2/85 WW II TEC 4 US ARMY - INTERPRETER AT NURNBERG TRIALS - Rodysill Phares O. (Bud) 9/13/22 1/21/05 WW II SSgt US Army Bronze Star Starostka Raymond 11/27/23 6/7/02 WW II Lt Col Army, Bronze Star Medal*I have a correction to one of the individuals listed at the Died in Service page provided by Darrell Widman. Reginald C. Grosvenor was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Corregidor. He died in the Funatsu POW camp of Caridac Beri beri and severe malnutrition, 25 Nov 1944. See http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/Nagoya/funatsu_3/funatsu_all_yank_roster.html and http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=303182. Thank you. David G. Woodward <dglennw@charter.net> 7 May 2012"The Fine Print"
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