On July 10, 2017, the aircraft, which had the callsign “Yanky 72,” crashed in a soybean field in Itta Bena, Mississippi. Mississippi Marine Corps MemorialThough none of the men in the Yanky 72 crash were Mississippi natives, the Marine Corps League of Mississippi decided to commemorate the lost service members. Kelsey McCarty, a volunteer with the Mississippi Marine Corps League, conducts the Yanky 72 memorial in Itta Bena, Mississippi on July 11, 2026. Anna Johnson pays respect to her late husband, Gunnery Sergeant Brendan C. Johnson, at the Yanky 72 memorial in Itta Bena, Mississippi on July 11, 2026. She had to embellish any t-shirt she got, so this is her Yanky 72 shirt that she embellished with lace,” Nollner said.