John Harrison Keener Jr.
Honored on the No. 11 Car
- Rank: Corporal
- Branch: Army Air Corps
- Born: 12/07/24
- Died: 07/17/44 in Yugoslavia
- Hometown: Franklin, NC
John Keener was a tail-gunner of a B-24 bomber. On his 17th birthday while listening to the radio broadcast from Hawaii that Pearl Harbor had been bombed, Johnnie announced to the family he was going to enlist. He join the service in 1943 and was deployed to Italy with his bonber group in July of 1944. On the return leg of his crew's 3rd bombing mission over the Polesti oil fields in Romania, his plane was shot down and crash landed in Ygoslavia, where he and all but one of his crew members were killed.
William Christopher Johnson
Honored on the No. 18 Car
Rank: Private First ClassBranch: Army
Born: 01/01/85
Died: 06/12/07 in Bagdad, Iraq
Hometown: Oxford, NC
Christopher Johnson, 22, of Oxford, N.C., was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, in Fort Riley, Kan. He died June 12 in Baghdad of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device.
Christopher W. Swanson
Honored on the No. 19 Car
Rank: Staff SergeantBranch: Army
Died: 07/22/06 in AR Ramadi, Iraq
Hometown: Rosehaven, MD
Christopher Swanson, 25, of Rose Haven, Md., was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, in Baumholder, Germany. He died July 22 of injuries sustained when his patrol encountered enemy forces small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Jeffrey P. Shaffer
Honored on the No. 20 Car
Rank: SpecialistBranch: Army
Died: 09/13/06 in AR Ramadi, Iraq
Hometown: Harrison, AR
Jeffrey Shaffer, 21, of Harrison, Ark., was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, in Bamberg, Germany. He died Sept. 13 of injuries sustained in Ramadi, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations.
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