Julian Lummus, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the south Pacific.
Age at Death: 22
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
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John McCall, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in France. Memorial marker in Normandy, France.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: Charlotte News 5-3-45, Our Patriots of America WWII
Rumsey Pete Lewis
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in an accident at Camp Mackall, NC.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Leonard Lundquist
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Listed on the 1946 YMCA Honor List and killed in a plane crash.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Richard McCallum
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Captured in the fall of Corregidor and died of malaria as a Japanese POW.
Age at Death: 23
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 7-7-45
Clarence Lewis, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in North Africa.
Age at Death: 25
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 8-29-1943
Taze Lundy
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of wounds received in combat on Oct 14. Also awarded Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat in France in July, 1944.
Age at Death: 22
Image Source: CO 11-12-44
Turner McCarley
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the South Pacific per Sep 3, 1943 newsprint.
Age at Death: 25
Image Source: newsprint-unknown
Alfred Little
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in a plane crash at Jacksonville, FL.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Angus Lytch, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died in a plane crash near Katha, Burma, after completing 75 missions over enemy held Northern Burma in 1944. After his 99th mission, he was assigned a desk job, but he insisted on flying. He died on his 101st mission. He had been in the China-Burma-India Theater for 9 months, as of 9/1944, and had spent the previous summer at Morris Field in Charlotte. Military funeral held on Jan. 15, 1945, with burial in a military cemetery in Burma.
Age at Death: 26
Image Source: Carolina Room photo