Thomas McCloud
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action. Memorial marker in the Netherlands.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
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Hugh Lothery
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Okinawa. Memorial service on Dec 9, 1945 at Mt. Zion Methodist Church.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 12-6-45
Ferdinand Marz, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action in Belgium just three days after returning to the battlefield. He had been recuperating from a wound he received on 12-24-1944. His memorial service was held at St. Marks Lutheran Church on 2-4-1945. Lt. Marz is buried at Forest Lawn West Cemetery on Freedom Drive.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 1-13-1945
Ernest McConnell
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was in the town of Frankenburg, Germany, and the citizens later named their theater McConnell Theatre in appreciation of him. He was buried in the U. S. Military Cemetery, St. Avold, France, plot E, row 10, grave 695. This cemetery is located 25 miles east of Metz, France.
Age at Death: 29
Image Source: Family photo
Zachariah Jackson
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action. Memorial marker in Cambridge, England.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: CO 2-22-44
Carl Jordan
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Lost his life off of Okinawa when the USS Morrison was sunk by 4 direct hits from suicide planes. Memorial service held Sep 16, 1945 at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: 20
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 5-25-45
Richard Knapp
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action after going into Normandy soon after D-Day. Has also served a year in Army and then gone into the Reserves before he was recalled. Memorial service at his home on Sep 13, 1944.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 9-12-44
Joseph Joe James
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: While parachuting into Germany he was hit by flak and killed after his first combat jump. Buried in the American military cemetery in Margraten, Holland. Memorial service at West Avenue Presbyterian Church on Apr 29, 1945.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: CO 1-14-45
Thomas Tommy Joyner
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin when it was badly damaged off of Okinawa. A Japanese suicide bomber dropped two 500-pound armor piercing bombs, which resulted in explosions, fires, and the loss of 832 men, including Joyner and his cousin, Robert Ephrian Abell, Jr.Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: 19
Image Source: Carolina Room photo
Herbert Knight
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the South Pacific. Memorial service at Oakhurst Baptist Church on Sep 5, 1943. Memorial marker at Ft McKinley, manila, PI.
Age at Death: 24
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library