Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died in a plane crash in England on 5-10-1945. His memorial service was held on 11-4-1945 at the Prosperity A. R. P. Church.
Age at Death: 25
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 5-29-1945
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Unavailable
Age at Death: 24
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 12-8-1944
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge. His mother worked through the Red Cross to have a wreath put on his grave in a Belgian Military Cemetery.
Age at Death: 19
Image Source: Family photo
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Missing and presumed dead.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in service during the war.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in the crash of a B-29 bomber on a night flight near Woodward, OK. Final rites held at Methodist church in Big Stone Gap, VA on Jul 10, 1944.
Age at Death: 20
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 7-25-1944
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed on the first day of the Peleliu Island campaign. As the driver of an amphibious tractor, he carried troops across the reef through heavy mortar fire before being mortally wounded by enemy mortar fire. Annually contributed to the Charlotte Fresh Air Fund. Memorial service at the Douglas and Sing chapel on Oct 13, 1944. Memorial marker at Ft. McKinley, Manila, PI.
Age at Death: 28
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 10-7-1944
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action probably on January 21 near Strasbourg, apparently caught in the push the Germans made in Alsace on Jan 20. Memorial marker at Epimal, France.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Davidson College publication
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Had been overseas 18 days when he was killed in France. Memorial marker in Normandy, France.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: Carolina Room photo
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: After enlisting, he volunteered for immediate overseas duty and was sent to Hawaii in 9/1942. Killed on Lone Tree Hill near Maffin Bay, while acting as a forward observer. Memorial service at First Baptist Church on July 14, 1946.Buried in an American cemetery overseas.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: Carolina Room photo