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WCVetsX
World War II Veterans
from
Wayne County, Indiana
SPECIAL NOTICE: DIPLOMAS FOR VETERANS
RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL is searching for students who left school for
World War II military service before graduating and did not return to graduate.
They awarded RHS Diplomas to thirteen Veterans in a special ceremony on August 12, 2006
at the all-class reunion in Richmond, Indiana. Three were represented by survivors.`
Please contact the RHS Alumni Association at rhsalum@rcs.k12.in.us or 765-973-3338 if:
1. You are a Veteran who left RHS to serve in World War II
before graduating and were not awarded a diploma, or
2. You are a relative of a deceased World War II service
person who left RHS for service, but did not receive a diploma.
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This website recognizes and honors all who served, both living and dead, in World War II.
It also honors all others who served or are now serving in the military, for the vital work
necessary in times of peace or conflict to preserve the freedom we enjoy in this country.
The totals for Veterans listed in the introduction and for Jackson and Wayne Townships
likely are off by less than twenty. Those for the other townships are correct.
By township, the first number after the title is the total from that township.
The second number is the township Killed in Action (KIA). We believe that number is accurate.
We welcome email or Guest Book entries with updates.
See:
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov
to find graves of Veterans in 120 National Cemeteries since the Civic War.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tombofun.htm
This URL will take you to information about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
NOTE: The branch of service is shown by each name if known.
FYI, the U S Army Air Corps name was changed to the U S Army Air Forces before December 7, 1941.
Therefore, no one is listed as serving in "the Air Corps."
These are lists of two thousand, two hundred, twenty-eight
citizens from Wayne County, Indiana who served in the
United States Armed Forces and Merchant Marine during World War II.
One hundred seventy were killed or died in action or line of duty (KIA).
At least one other died of wounds (DOW) shortly after the war ended.
There are several areas of the county that have few or no names listed.
We hope those who know of names not listed will let us know
so their stories can be told.
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Those named are men and women from Wayne County, Indiana who were
members of the United States Armed Forces or Merchant Marine between December 7, 1941 and December 31, 1946.
Thanks to the many of you who have put messages in the Guest Book or sent emails with names and
information about friends and loved ones. The recent revisions do not permit retaining the previous
Guest Book messages for review online. They were saved offline as permanent reference.
Jackson Township has 385 names from around Cambridge City. This list was furnished by
Phyllis Mattheis of Cambridge City, Indiana. These names were on the Memorial Plaque in Cambridge City for
many years. Most of the Wayne Township and Richmond names are from the Memorial Plaque at the entrance to
Richmond High School. It was placed there in 1943 and updated in 1998 by Cliff Davis, David J Hoff and the
members of the RHS Breakfast Club. Cliff Davis sent a copy of the list of names on the refurbished plaque.
Names were added to the plaque at that time to have over 1400 names. More than two hundred names
have been supplied by friends and relatives and added to this list in the past two years.
Myron Brown, of Huntington, Indiana, provided a copy of a Palladium-Item article of August 15, 1945
which listed 158 who lost their lives in the war. Interesting that 158 was the first number drawn in the
National Selective Service Draft Lottery in 1940. We believe there were a few more fatalities besides those listed.
There must be several hundred not on the lists which should be. We hope someone will
give us those names so they can be recognized with the others.
Please visit our Guest Book to make an entry or read those of others.
Use the back arrow in the Guest Book to return to this site.
If you have additional information about the military service for anyone on the list,
please sign the Guest Book and enter that information so it can be added by their name.
If you know of names not on the list which should be, please tell us.
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Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana receives copies
of this Wayne County Veterans' List on compact disk (CD)as a permanent record.
We intend to furnish Morrison-Reeves Library an up-to-date copy on CD
annually as long as this website is active and names are added.
As you may know, a website remains active only so long as the server
is paid for the use of the domain. We feel that the Morrison-Reeves Library
constitutes a permanent repository for this information, that the information is
important enough that it should be protected and that doing so will assure that it
will be available far into the future, long after this website ceases to be active.
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Thank you.
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Comments: My father is Eugene Shores and my Uncle is Jack Shores. Both of them are brother. My Father was in the Marines and Jack was in teh Army. My father passed away Feb 2 2008.In Florida, my mother is sill living. thank you for your website. Jeannie SHores Russell
Name: Jonathan Earl Craig
Date: 2008-06-02
Email: jcraig@shenry.k12.in.us
Comments: I was looking for my grandfather's name. His name was Earl (Pat) Leroy Bickel. He was in the war, and died in 1996.
Name: Terance
Date: 2008-03-30
Email: teranceweston@yahoo.com
Comments: Searching Burris, West and Young. Have found much useful info with the state to state links, thank you.
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Recent Entries
This list comprises names and information recently added.
Names to be added are listed here temporarily for convenient review.
Requesting list additions:
If you request the name of a veteran to be added to the list, please include
as much information as you can. These are suggestions and examples:
Full name (at least) and nickname
Branch of service: Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine
Dates of service: Start, end -- at least years ('43, '44, etc.)
Countries or theater of service: Europe, North Africa, Pacific, islands, ship, etc.
Activities or duties: Infantry, Artillery, Pilot, Air Crew, Seaman, Supply, Transportation, etc.
Awards for Valor: Silver Star, Bronze Star
Award for injury: Purple Heart
Awards for service: European Theater, Pacific Theater, battle stars, unit citations.
If injured or killed.
This will permit us to add a more complete and interesting
story of their service experience for all to read. You can see
many examples in the lists of names.
Please review these recent entries if you requested them
and tell us if corrections are needed or give more data.
In a few days these entries will be moved to the
appropriate place in the main lists.
-------------------------------------Recent Entries-------------------------------------------
These recent entries are listed here for convenient reviewing.
Duplicates of these entries are in the appropriate main list by township and alphabetic order.
[**] Wayne Township - Robert Bennett (U S Army)
Private. Served in New Guinea
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Just received this message from Mark Salzarulo in California. It is so interesting
and appropriate that it is here for all to read.
Family & Friends,
Recently, I received a letter from Mary Griffey of RHS Alumni Association announcing
an all-class reunion in August, 2006, in Richmond. And at that event, the high school
would present diplomas to men who were called to active duty during WWII before their
graduation. I fell into that category. If I could not attend to receive my diploma,
she asked if I would share a memorable story of those days. So I wrote a one-page essay
(hadn't done that since high school) and titled it, "Stars in Mom's Window", and sent it off.
Those of you who have a copy of the family "Remember When" albums, I thought this would be
another memorabilia to add to it.
STARS IN MOM’S WINDOW
By Mark Salzarulo
Oceanside, Calif.
My family consisted of six boys and two girls. All six of us boys served in the military, overseas during WWII,
and both sisters worked in defense plants there in Richmond, Ind. I was the youngest. My older brothers, one-by-one
entered the service, two before the start of the war and the others after the start of the war. All five were officers.
Whenever they came home on leave, we used to take turns walking next to them down Main Street—like,
“This is my brother in uniform”!
Early on, near the start of the war, an American custom began which was to hang a little red, white and blue banner
consisting of a star in the middle (blue for "active duty", gold for "killed-in-action") in the front window of
the serviceman's home which signified a member of that home was serving our country in the military.
Well, as the boys enlisted, one-by-one, our mother had to purchase a (new) banner with the appropriate number of stars on it.
By the time I left for active duty as an enlisted man (a private) on May 3, 1944, there was one banner hanging in
the window which had five stars arranged like the dots on dice, the center star being gold since my brother, Raymond,
was killed in the Battle of Midway. Well, Mom couldn't find a banner with six stars, so she simply hung her very first
(single-star) banner under the one with five. Have you got the picture??
Some months later I was granted an emergency leave because my brother, Bob, was shot down over Germany and
reported Missing in Action (later, he was found to be a POW of the Germans). When I walked up onto the porch there
on North 15th Street, I glanced at the window and saw the two banners. I was reminded of the military regulation
forbidding officers and enlisted men from fraternizing. So, I remember commenting to the folks—in jest,
of course—something to the effect that, since the star representing me, a private, hung separate and below
the other five (officers) above, then Army regulations stretched all the way home as well.
We all got a good laugh about it and it has made a good story in the years since. I think you'll enjoy it.
Mark
ps; if you have a thought or comment, I'd be happy to receive it.
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[**] Not yet added into totals. Not copied into list.
End of Recent Entries
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Wayne County has fifteen townships.
The names of the Veterans from the various townships
may be found by choosing from the list below.
Drafted upon high school graduation, but was discharged after a few months as the war was over.
Fredrick William Sudhoff (U S Army)
Corps of Engineers in the Philippines 1945
James Edmund Sudhoff (U S Marine Corps)
Staff Sergeant. Graduated from Boston High School 1943.
Drafted December 24, 1943. Marine Air Group 45.
Airborne Radar Technician at Majuro Island, Marshall Islands,
on Ulithi Atoll in the Western Caroline Islands and, after the war, on Okinawa.
Also at Yokosuka, Japan Airfield for United States night fighters during the Occupation.
Installed the Radio Sound System in the hangars. Honorable Discharge August 1, 1946.
[By Rose Marie Sudhoff, wife]
Corporal. Died of wounds received in action in Belgium
Deral E "Pickle" Dils (U S Navy)
Born in Boston, Ind., Feb. 25, 1926, he was the son of Walter E. and Mildred Ross Wadman Dils.
Lived in Centerville all of his life except WWII service.
Received the American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Area Campaign Medal with five stars,
Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two stars and the Purple Heart.
Died Aug. 1, 2003 in Centerville.
Mabel A Holbert (U S Navy)
KIA
WAVE. Died of illness at Naval Training Station Hunter College Bronx NY
Staff Sergeant. Died in the South Pacific on November 2, 1943. He was the radio operator on a B-25.
They sank a Japanese ship, but were shot down in the process. The raid was near Rabaul, New Guinea.
Posthumously, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
These medals were presented to his mother in a ceremony at the Whitewater High School gymnasium.
(By Mary Owens, sister)
Frank Ketron (U S Army Air Forces)
Crew member on B-17s.
Survived the war, but is no longer living.
Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class. Declared dead. US Navy VP-205 Squadron.
Crewman on PBM-3S on anti-submarine patrol in the Trinidad Sector.
Overdue July 10, 1943 on submarine hunt. All eleven hands lost.
See www.vpnavy.com/vp205_mishap.html
Enlisted at 35 years of age when married with children.
Operated the Standard Oil Service Station in Cambridge City before and after military service.
(By Charles Locke)
Naval Aviator.
Copilot on Navy patrol bomber training flight out of Norfolk, Virginia.
Failed to return on mission over the Atlantic prior to the war in April 1941.
Likely monitoring German submarines off the East Coast.
(By Sharon A Craig)
Seaman STM2/C Entered Coast Guard June 9, 1945.
Served on the George McCrarry as Cook. Discharged for health reasons, September 20, 1945
(By David Worl, son)
Drafted June 30, 1941 and entered the Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Basic Training at Camp Lee, Virginia. Truck Driver and Vehicle Mechanic
Assigned to 4th Infantry Division, Quartermaster Corps, Fort Benning, Georgia
Arrived in the European Theater of Operation (ETO) January 29, 1944
Landed on Utah Beach in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Campaigns -- Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe, Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge
At Brenner Pass when the war ended
Discharged September 3, 1945 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana with rank of Technician 5
Medals and Service Ribbons -- Army of Occupation, American Campaign, European, Africa,
Middle Eastern Campaign with Arrowhead, World War II, American Defense, Good Conduct Medal
Still living on January 1, 2005!
Charles Frank Dishner (U S Army)
In service April 1944 to June 1946. Trained at Fort Custer, Michigan.
Sent to Europe as replacement in 78th Infantry Division about Christmas 1944.
Platoon Sergeant. Stationed in Wooperstal, Germany area. Was in Arleson, Germany
when war ended in Europe. With 78th Division as it moved into Berlin to replace
82nd Airborne Division as it moved out to go back to the Continental United States.
Bronze Star. Combat Infantry Badge.
[Per Joshua Chenoweth, grandson, 12-10-2003]
South Pacific. Noncommissioned Pilot in PBY Catalina Squadron
Highly Agee
Benjamin Ahl
Albert Albano
Basil J Albano
Seldon Albano
Donald Alexander
Gene Alexander (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Private First Class Was severly wounded. Died on Corsica
Gene Alexander
Warren Alexander
Douglas Alldredge
Charles Allen
Paul F Allen (U S Army)
Private First Class, 11th Airborne. October 17,1944 to November 15, 1945
Combat on Luzon, Philippine Islands and Okinawa.
Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon w/ one bronze service star.
Philippine Liberation Ribbon w/ one bronze service star.
Interviewed on Okinawa and told he was first Wayne County man to reach Japan.
Reinlisted in Japan November 16, 1946 Sergeant Technician 5th Grade Co D 532d EB & SR
Discharged 3-18-47 at Fort Ord, California
Robert Earl Allen
Eugene Allman
Carlton Altenbach
Lucille M Ammon
Paul D Ammon
Richard E Ammon
Albert R Anderson
Carl Anderson
Jack Anderson
John R Anderson
Norbert Anderson
Richard J Anderson
Robert Anderson
Roy Anderson
Joseph Angi
Everett Armbruster
Leslie Armbruster
William Armbruster
Forrest R Armstrong
John Arnold
Richard B Arnold
Rosemary Arnold
Robert Ashby
Donald Ashenfelter
Robert (Bob) Atkins
Edward M Atkinson
Everette Austerman
F. Joseph Austerman
Floyd Austerman
Harold Austerman
Myron W Austerman (U S Army) KIA
Technical Sergeant Died of wounds received in invasion of France
RHS Class of '44. Submarine School 1943-1947
Went to Submarine School with William Moss RHS '43
Marvin Kenneth Bailey (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Infantry. Killed in Luxembourg
Denver L Baker (U S Marine Corps)
Robert D Baker (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Communications Unit. Killed in European area.
Clyde Baldwin Jr (U S Army)
Lowell C Baldwin
William Bales
Richard Balfe
Donald H Ball
George F Ball
John D Ball
Robert D Ball
Roland C Ball Jr
Alvadore Bane
Geneva Banks Ball (U S Navy)
WAVES (Women Auxilary Volunteer Emergency Service)
'42-'45. Link Trainer Instructor. Trained at Atlanta, Georgia.
Instructed at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Texas.
Remained in Naval Reserve and was recalled during the Korean War to serve at Jacksonville, Florida
Taught school later at Guam as a civilian.
Charles Barnes
Ivan Mario Barnes
Richard F Barnes
Raphael Barranger
Robert V Barrett
Clayton G Bartel
Eugene Barth
John Barth
Richard Barth
William Barth (U S Army Air Forces)
December 1941 -- November 1945
Captain, 33rd Squadron, 22nd Bomb Group
Flew B-25s and B-26s
Australian and New Guinea Theater
Robert D Bass (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Tail gunner.
Declared dead officially after missing in action over Germany.
James Bate
Joseph Baumer
John C (Jack) Baumgardner (U S Army) KIA
Technician Fifth Class Field Artillery.
Killed in accident in Central Pacific
John Bayer
William Bayer
Richard Beach
Robert D Beach
William F Beach
Calvin Bear
Robert Beck
Robert J Beckman
William Beckman
William Behner
Robert Beli
George Bell
Louise Bell
Robert Bell
Fred J Benham (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Ordnance. Died in hospital in France.
Wilbur Benjamin
John W Benner
Jack Bennett
Joseph Bennett
Raymond L Benson
James Bentlage
Haywood Bentley
William J Benton
Lester L Berg
Charles (Ned) Berheide
Alvin Berry
Frank Berry
Noah Berry
Tyrus Berry
Art Bietry (U S Army)
PVT., 83rd Infantry Division. Trained in US and England for the Normandy invasion.
Division landed about a month after the 6 June 1944 initial landings.
Severely wounded about 27-28 July by German 88mm artillery shell
during his unit's attack to cut the Saint-Lo to Periers highway.
Evacuated to England as his wounds were severe.
Awarded the Purple Heart.
After much reconstructive surgery and many months of therapy and training to use his prostheses,
he became the Postmaster in Richmond and continued until he retired.
Ernest Bietry (U S Army Air Forces)
'41-'45. Radio Operator in the Panama Canal Zone
John C Billheimer
Robert E Bishop
Robert E Bittner
John Black
Christopher Blainas
Gordon R Blackney
Raymond Blansett
Robert Blei
Paul Blomeyer
Roy (or Ray) Blomeyer
Clifford (Kip) Blossom
Walter Blossom
Maurice (Fred) (Bud) Bode (U S Army) KIA
Private First Class, Infantry. Killed on Okinawa on April 24, 1945
Robert S Boles
William Bone (U S Navy)
Enlisted in 1942
Charles S Boner (U S Army) KIA
Sergeant Army Infantry. Killed in Germany..
Clyde Boomershine
Donald J Borton
George R Borton
Robert Borton
William Borton
Robert Bostwick
F N (Skeet) Bousman (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Killed in South Pacific.
Robert Bowers
Thomas J Bowser
Raymond E Bowsman (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Antitank Unit. Killed in Germany.
Eileen Boyce O'Toole
Paul J Bradem (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Infantry. Killed on Mindoro.
George Bradfield
Vernon L Brann
Gordon E Branson
Robert Braun
Joseph Breese
John R Brehm
Eugene P (Bud) Bridgeford
Jerald Bright
Angela Brinker
Fred Brinker
James Brinker
John Brinker
Joseph F Brinker
Robert Brinker
Robert Brinley
Joseph Brinley
Paul Brittenham
Thomas Brittenham
Jenny Britton
R Broaddus Jr
Walter Broderick
R Bronnenberg
Winston A Brookbank (U S Army Air Forces)
Master Sergeant. Served in the Philippines.
Robert Brooks
Walter Brooks
David A Brown
Don Brown
Dwight Brown
Edward Brown
Eugene S Brown
Frances Brown (U S Navy)
Enlisted in the WAVES in 1943 in Chicago as she was employed there at the time.
Basic training in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Assigned to Washington, D.C. classified work.
Transferred to Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago until honorably discharged in September 1945.
Brutally murdered December 1945 in Chicago. Buried in Earlham Cemetery in Richmond.
First funeral with full military honors for a woman in Richmond. (Pal-Item article)
Fred E Brown (U S Navy) KIA
Killed on cruiser USS Juneau.
Jayne Brown
John Harlan Brown (U S Army)
Malcolm Brown
Marion W Brown (U S Army) KIA
Private First Class Killed in European area.
Merle O Brown
Myron R Brown (U S Army Air Forces)
Bombardier in B-17s.
Myron Wesley Brown (U S Army Air Forces)
Far East Air Materiel Command in the Philippine Islands.
Then Headquarters Base transferred to Japan near Tokyo.
Richard Brown
Richard G Brown
Robert Brown
William E Brown
Leo Bruck
Russell Brumley
John C Brune
Bill Brunton (U S Army)
'41-'45. Infantry. North Africa and Italy.
Dave Brunton (U S Navy)
'41-'45. Stationed in the South Pacific.
Dudley Brusher
Fredrick Brusher
Paul Brusher (U S Army) KIA
Private First Class Killed in Italian area.
John L Bryant
Tony Buccella
E Raymond Buckley
Joe Bueme
John Bulach
Richard Bulach
John H Bull
John Bullerdick
Robert Bullock
William (Bill) Burbancks
Kenneth Burden
Marvin J Burg
William Burielson
Art Burkhart
Carl Burkhard Jr
Dale Burkhart
Don Burkhart
Daniel Burkhardt
Neil C Burnett (U S Navy)
'42-'46. Served on PC1216 in Caribbean Area for 11 months.
Served in Europe. Wounded in battle.
Awarded the Purple Heart
DeWan W Carnes
Robert K Carnes
James J Carr
John F Carr
Irvin Carrico
Karl K Carrico (U S Navy) KIA
Lost in battle on cruiser USS Quincy.
James Evans Carter
Lowell Carver
Henry D Casey
Dandy Castelluccio
Keith Castelluccio
Joseph Catanese
Peter L Catanese
Robert F Catron
William Cavender
Peter Chagares
William Chagares
Roy K Chalfant Jr
Donald Chamberlain
Frank Chambers
Harry Chambers
Earl L Chamness
Preston Chamness
Calvin K Chaney
George A Channess
Leon Chapman
William E Chastain (U S Army)
'42-'45 Staff Sergeant Served in Central Europe.
John Chasteen
Monie Chasteen
Ralph Chasteen(U S Army)
Served in North Africa, Italy and Germany
Wounded on Anzio Beach. Discharged in 1945. Died in 2001.
Rovie Chasteen
Frank G Chenoweth
William Chenoweth
Harry Chris (U S Army) KIA
Staff Sergeant Died on Mindanoa of wounds received.
Boyd Clark (U S Navy)
Donald Clark
James Willis Clark (U S Navy)
U S Navy 2/1942-12/1946 USNR 12/1946-12/1956 Machinist Mate First Class (MM1/C)
Graduated from Morton High School in 1937.
Boot Camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Volunteered for the
newly formed Naval Amphibious Forces at Norfolk, Virginia. August 1942 began
career as a "Frogman" in the GATOR navy. Assigned to the Scouts and Raiders
(S/R) Unit 1/3 and trained at Bradford Park, Little Creek, Virginia under the
command of Lt. Peddicord. The 7 man units included volunteers from all
branches of the military and a few British Commandos. The School was very
thorough and demanding in teaching the arts of scouting and raiding techniques to
prepare the beaches for the invasion forces. Great emphasis placed on physical
and endurance conditioning in the water, hand to hand combat, the use of explosives
and small arms with survival behind enemy lines. Most important was "team work."
The school was closed and all personnel were assigned to OPERATION TORCH,
the Allied Landings in North Africa. Task Force 34 was the first major
Amphibious Landing in the European Theatre.
Task Force 34 approached North Africa on the morning of November 7, 1942. The
S/R units went ashore and marked the beaches prior to the invasion. The
primary objective of the S/R teams was to capture the airport at Port
Lyautey and secure it to land our P-40 aircraft. This was accomplished and
over 107,000 allied troops were landed and the land battle began. The
Amphibians returned to the USA and the S/R School reformed at Amphibious Training Base (ATB),
Little Creek, Virginia in December 1942. In early 1943, ATB moved to Ft. Pierce, Florida
to train for the invasion of Sicily, OPERATION HUSKY scheduled for the summer of 1943.
After a 30 day leave, ordered to report to The Naval Landing Force Base in
New Orleans (Algiers), Louisiana to work with Higgins Manufacturing on
various types of landing craft changes to be customized for the island invasions in
the Pacific. Key emphasis was on the LCVP's, the mainstay of the invasion
forces. Crews were trained and sent to bases in California to be a part of the
Island Invasion Forces. Had this duty until June 1944 and received orders to
report to Camp Pendleton, California for assignment until becoming very ill
with malaria. Sent to the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. Malaria was
complicated with rheumatic fever and sent to the Naval Hospital in Corona,
California for treatment and disposition. Returned to active duty on November 1, 1944
with orders to report to NOB in Norfolk for duty assignment.
For the remainder of enlistment, was crew chief for a Shakedown Crew test
running newly built landing craft (ARL's and LCI's) to qualify them as combat
ready and train crews in the operation of the craft geared toward the Pacific
island invasions. The atom bombs were dropped and the Japanese surrendered
on August 14, 1945 before receiving orders to report to the Invasion Task Force.
Looking back over the WWII years, he feels that his life was saved twice by divine
intervention: (1) malaria hospitalized him while many of his shipmates were
killed, and (2) the atomic bombing of Japan saved untold thousands of lives,
including his. He is grateful, but strongly regrets the loss of so many of his
shipmates. James Willis Clark resides in Anderson, Indiana. (11-9-2003)
John Clark
Joseph G Clark (U S Army Air Forces)
In service from November 1941 to September 1945. Radio Operator and Waist Gunner.
Twenty-three months in Southwest Pacific Area in 13th Air Force, 5th Bomb Group
394th Squadron. Received Purple Heart and many other medals and ribbons.
Was shot down three times and sent back to the United States. Died in San Jose, CA August 1989.
Youbger brother of Thomus U. Clark)
(By Ms Cathy Lynn Clark Blass, daughter) (11-23-2003)
Kenneth Clark
Perry Clark
Richard Clark
Thomas A Clark (U S Navy)
Master Chief Pattern Maker. Enlisted March 1941 in Richmond, Indiana.
Great Lakes Naval Training Station for Boot Camp. Trained as a Seaman 3/C.
Ordered to Newport, RI for training and assignment to the USS Melville as Seaman 1/C.
Went on maneuvers in the North Atlantic and stopped in Bermuda when war was declared.
Ship ordered to Norfolk Navy Yard to make the ship battle ready and sent to Nova Scotia
as part of the first AEF convoy to make the North Atlantic run. Records show about 500
allied ships were sank by German U-boats.
Had first really bad experience realizing that this is war and was very fortunate to have
made it to the shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Selected crew members were sent to
Londonderry, Northern Ireland to establish a repair base that became United States
Naval Operating Base used to repair all Allied ships during the war. This was very rough
duty but great experience. Was promoted to Pattern Maker 1/C. Eventually the war in
Europe was coming to an end and all Allied ships were ordered to home ports.
Returned to New York via a transport ship and got married after the long wait.
Soon on train headed for Long Beach, Ca. to pick up a troop ship to Hawaii.
Assigned to the ARHI and the only heavy hull repair ship in the US Navy, The Jason.
It was a very elite ship as most of the crew was chosen by the Admiralty. Joined with the
battleships and heavy cruisers heading for the Philippines. With them all the way
from Leyte Gulf to the coast of Japan. Then sent to Jinsen, Korea where did a
much work repairing generators and restoring power to the cities.
Then to Shanghai for major repairs as city had no power. Captain promoted him to
Division Chief in charge of all the Chiefs aboard the Jason. The war was winding down
hitched a ride on destroyer USS Boardman to Honolula and onto San Diego, California.
Completed six war years and headed home.
The Navy trained him in a good trade which gave him thirty-seven years of continuous
and rewarding civilian employment providing for the Atlantic Fishing Fleet.
(Information from James G Clark, brother - 11-23-2003)
Thomus U Clark (U S Army)
Served from 16 December 1944 to 20 October 1946.
Trained as paratrooper. Served as Cook in the Asiatic Pacific Theater.
Born in Richmond in 1919 and lived there until the 1960s. Attended Richmond High School. (By John M. Clark, son)
Jack Clements
John W Clements Jr
Joseph Clevenger
Lyle J Clevenger
Max Clevenger
Richard Clevenger
Kenneth Clifton (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Lieutenant Lead Pilot for P-47 Thunderbolt Group. Killed when plane crashed
in allied territory in Italy after developing engine trouble
E C Cline
Donald Clingman
James G Close
Maurice L Close
Maurice L Closer
Denver Clouser
Maurice Clouser
James Coate
John Coate
Myra J Coate
Richard Coate
Robert Coate
Charles Coben
Lewis (Louie) Cobine
Warren H Cobine
James Coe (U S Navy) KIA
Commander of submarine USS Cisco. Lost in Pacific.
Otis Coffey
Jack E Coffman
Howard J Cofield
Charles R Cohen (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Tail Gunner.on B-24.
Walter Coldiron (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Infantry. Killed in France.
Burton Cole (U S Army)
Technical Sergeant. Served in the Military Police Corps stateside for 4 years.
Stationed in Maryland and most of his service at the Huntsville Army Ammunition Depot
at Huntsville, Alabama.
Died September 25, 1951 in St Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
Charles C Cole (U S Navy)
Seaman Second Class (S/2c) January 31, 1946 to November 4, 1947.
Basic training at Bainbridge, Maryland. Served aboard the 45,000 ton
USS Midway (CVB-41) aircrft carrier as First Loader on a Five-Inch Gun.
Made trip to White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico and picked up a captured
German V-2 rocket. Took it the ship and launched it off the coast of Bermuda
from the ship for test. Launch was successful. Discharged from the Norfolk Naval Station.
William E Cole (U S Navy)
Seaman First Class (S1/c) Served June 7, 1944 to August 8, 1946.
Aboard Landing Ship Tank, LST-227 in Pacific Theater. Died July 6, 1974
Pacific Theater Service Ribbon with four battle stars.
Archie Homer Collier (U S Navy) KIA
Seaman First Class Seaman 1st Class. Killed in plane crash at
Naval Air Station at Wildwood, New Jersey.
Marshall Collins
Wayne Collins
Roy Combes
John W (Jack) Commons (U S Army)
Merchant Marine. On ship torpedoed and sunk.
Rescued and joined Army when old enough.
Robert Andrew Commons (U S Marine Corps)
Made beach head on Okinawa on Easter morning as an 18 year old.
Russell Commons
Darrel Conder
Wilmer Sidney (Sid) Conley (U S Army)
Fought in the Battle of the Bulge
Born February 5, 1920. Died August 12, 1969.
(By Don Tate)
Donald Conrad
Frank Conrad
James Conrad
Huber Conrey
W Maurice Conrey
Anthony L. Consolino (U S Army)
Master Sargeant. Head of the Army Kitchen in High Wickham, England outside of London.
While in charge of that facility he served Generals Eisenhower and Doolittle along with many
other dignitaries who passed through the Abbey at High Wickham on their way to the front.
While in England he met and eventually married WAC Emma J. Petersen, also of Richmond.
They moved back to Richmond after the war and resided there until 1954.
(Per son John M Consolino, 7-31-2003)
Emma J. (Petersen) Consolino (U S Army)
WAC (Women's Army Corps) in charge of the top secret telephone operators at the Abbey in
High Wickham. While in England she met and eventually married MSgt Anthony L. Consolino,
also of Richmond. They moved back to Richmond after the war and resided there until 1954.
(Per son John M Consolino, 7-31-2003)
John Consolino
Joseph Consolino
Roland Conti
Harold L Cook
Basil Duane (Jim) Coons (U S Marine Corps)
'44-'46. Pacific Area '45-'46. Participated in occupation of Japan.
Edward (Corky) Cordell
Joseph Cordell
Robert R Cordell
William Cordell
Chester R Corder
Dallas Corder
William Corman
Harold J Cornelius (U S Army) KIA
Paratrooper. Killed in France
Albert Corsi
Myron Corsi (U S Army)
Served in Italy. Antiaircraft gunner.
Nuncio Corsi
Edgar Coss (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in Italy
Alex Costello (U S Army) KIA
Paratrooper
Allen M Coulter
Russell Coulter
Carl Cox
James E Cox
James F Cox
John Cox
Lawrence E Cox
Royden (Roy) Cox
Wilbur Cox
William E Cramer
Jack Crane
Robert M Crane
Robert Craver
Robert F Crawford
William G Crawford (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Radio Operator. Killed over Italy.
Charles J (Jack) Craycraft (U S Navy)
Seabee (CB - Construction Battalion)
William Craycraft
Vernon Cressler
Charles Creviston
Fred Crockett
Roy A Crome (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Died of pnuemonia in San Diego, California Naval Hospital
Carl R Crouch
Edgar L Crouch (U S Army)
Private First Class, Rifleman (745),
Company C, 387th Infantry Regiment, 97th Division. March '44 - May '46.
Private First Class Paratrooper. Killed in Germany.
Verl Gibson
Marjorie Gilbert (WASP)
Graduated from Morton High School in 1937.
Worked as Secretary to Principle E. C. Kline at Richmond High School
Became interested in flying and joined a ground school in the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP)
where the government, recognizing the coming need for pilots, sponsored these classes and flight training.
The top three students of this program were awarded a scholarship for flight training.
Marjorie graduated second in her class and the three from Richmond went to Muncie for flight training.
She attained her Private Pilot's License through this program.
She joined the Civil Air Patrol as a means of continuing her interest in flying.
This was in the early stages of World War II.
After the United States entered the war, Jacqueline Cockran got the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP)
organized and Marjorie joined it. She was sent to Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas , the training center
for WASPs, and she trained in PT-19's, BT-13's and AT-6's.
From there, she was sent to multi-engine training where she attained first seat rating in both
(Martin) B-26's and the (Consolidated) B-24's. She was assigned to the airbase at
Pocatello, Idaho when she flew the B-26 towing targets for training aircrews at the
B-24 Gunnery School at Pocatello. Most of her service time, about two years, was at Pocatello.
Her last assignment was at a base in Dyersburg, Tennessee. At that time, WASPs were not
considered members of the Army Air Forces, although they flew missions equivalent to those of active
duty service pilots. In recent years, Congress passed legislation recognizing they were active duty
members of the Army Air Forces and awarded full privledges and benefits as commissioned officers.
(Information provided by Kiffin Gilbert, brother of Marjorie Gilbert, 8-24-2003)
Raymond Gilliland (U S Army Air Forces)
1936 Morton High School graduate. Pilot, Air Transport Command.
First airplane ride at age 21 and hooked on flying. Started flying in 1939.
Earned Commercial Pilot and Instructor Pilot civilian licenses prior to
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Went overseas in 1943 and
flew "The Hump," the massive airlift that saved war-racked China from falling to the Japanese.
He made 310 trips over the Himalayas between India and China to supply forces
in China fighting the Japanese. After the War, Ray flew for United Airlines until retiring
in 1978. Forty years after flying in China, finally he was honored by the Chinese Government
with the award of The Chinese Service Medal and Chinese Air Force Wings.
Reid Gilmore
Harold Joseph Glosson (U S Navy)
Enlisted US Navy August 11, 1941. Aboard USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor
during the attack on December 7, 1941. He transferred to USS Quincy, CA-72.
Participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944
and of Southern France. Took President Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference.
After moving to the Pacific, they participated in the bombardment of the Japanese homeland
and the surrender of the Japanese at Yokahoma.
Discharged October 20, 1945.
Harold A Glunt (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Sergeant Engineer. Killed in Southwest Pacific.
Robert E Glunt (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in Germany.
Wilbur Glunt
George Godsey
John Godsey
Norman Godsey (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Radio Operator - Gunner. Killed in Pacific area.
Blaine Godwin
John W Godwin
Richard W Goens
Robert M Goens
James (Jim) Goldenberg (U S Army)
March 1944 -- June 1946
122nd Medical Battalion, 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division
European Theater of Operations
Sea Bees -- Construction Battalions. On many islands in
the South Pacific. On Truk 1945 or 1946, until sent home due to father's illness.
Eugene Hart
Harry Roger (Terry) Hart (U S Army)
Herman Hart
Irvin Hart
James Hart (U S Army)
Trained at Key West, Florida on 155mm Artillery.
Sent to Montauk Point to guard coast after German spies captured coming
ashore on Long Island from German submarine.
William Hart
Donald S Harter
Edward Hartman Jr
Leonard E Hartman
Marvin Hartman
Clyde Hartzell
Delbert Harvey
Malcolm P Harvey
Jean Hascall
Eugene L Hastings
Denzil C Hawk (Royal Canadian Air Force) KIA
Royal Canadian Air Force. Killed in England.
Marlowes Hawkins Jr
Dale A Hawley
Howard Haworth
Junior Hay
Robert Hay
Charles Hays
Robert L Heaton (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in France
Frantz Hebbler
Paul Heck (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Private First Class Killed in plane accident in Panama Canal Zone.
Leslie D Hedges (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Aviation Cadet Aviation Cadet. Killed in plane crash at airfield in Georgia
Eugene Heinbaugh (U S Navy)
1941 to 1947
Herman Heitzman Jr
Robert E Heitzman
R L Jr Hengstler
Ray Hengstler
Robert E Hengstler
William Hengstler
Charles A Henry
Homer Henry
Ralph Henry
Myron A Hensley (U S Army) KIA
Private Died of wounds received in action in Germany
Carl Herzog
William W Heuing (U S Navy)
Enlisted April 1944
John Fredrick (Buddy) Heuing (U S Army) DOW
Entered US Army March '43. Company C, 202nd Combat Engineers.
Wounded at Luxembourg December '44.
Died February 11. 1946 of complications from his wounds.
Howard Heun
Kenneth Eugene Hewitt (U S Army)
Sergeant. Entered in March 1945.
Served in Occupation Forces in Japan
Emgineer Battalion, 33rd Division.
Later GHQ (General Headquarters) in Tokyo. Ran an ice cream plant.
Staff made ice cream cake for General MacArthur's birthday in 1946.
William Hewitt (U S Army)
Military Police, European Theater of Operations
Frances Hiatt
Gene Hiatt
Hugh R Hiatt
John H Hiatt (U S Army Air Forces)
Remained in the Reserves after the war. [Per Kay Oatas, 11-11-2003]
Paul H Hiatt
Seth R Hiatt
William Hiatt (U S Navy)
KIA
Enlisted early in 1942. Was killed in the battle of the Coral Sea.
Harry Hickman
Brower E Higgs, Jr.
American Theater
Charles V Higgs
South Pacific Theater
Marvin L Higgs
European Theater
Benjamin T Hill
Charles F Hill
Philip Eugene Hill (U S Army) KIA
Private Army Combat Engineers. Killed in France
Wallace Hill
Alden B Hinshaw
Robert Hinshaw
Donald Hittle
Vernon Hobbs (U S Army) KIA
Lieutenant Vernon Hobbs received his commission from the ROTC program at Purdue University.
Entered active duty upon graduation from Purdue in 1940.
He was assigned to a unit on Luzon in the Philippine Islands.
Became a Prisoner-of-War (POW) when captured by the Japanese as the Philippines fell in early 1942.
Survived the Bataan Death March. Held in the Philippines until December 1944 when American forces invaded Philippines.
Put aboard the Oryoku Maru and met Louis G Kolger from Richmond along with 1519 other prisoners for movement to Japan.
No water, food or medical. Extreme heat.
Ship not marked as prisoners aboard and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft when leaving Subic Bay.
Prisoners swam to shore and moved to Lingayen Gulf by train and put aboard Enoura Maru.
Ship had been carrying horses. Hold deck covered with horse manure. No water, food or medical.
Enoura Maru sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft when anchored in Tako Bay, Formosa. Survivors swam to shore.
Vernon received slight shrapnel wound in left shoulder blade. It became infected.
Survivors put aboard Brazil Maru. Vernon died of the infection on board and buried at sea
a few days before ship arrived in Mori, Japan.
These statements contain some inaccuracies regarding ships and locations. Hope to correct these soon.
A more accurate statement in much greater detail is available at this URL:
See www.oryokumaruonline.org and understand why atom bombs were dropped.
Also see Louis G. Kolger
(Per telephone visit with Louis G Kolger, 8-20-2002)
Harry Hodges
Everett Hodgin
Robert E Hodgin
Robert (Guy) Hodgin
Robert M Hodgin
Aaron J Hodgkin
Roger D Hodgkin
David J (Dave) Hoff (U S Army)
Entered service February 1943. ASTP at CCNY and Carnegie Tech.
580th Combat Engineers. Trained to operate heavy construction equipment, explosives
and heavy weapons. To Europe in February 1945. Tuol, France to Nuremburg.
Left ETO June 5, 1945 from Marseilles, France to Manila, Philippine Islands
for landing on Nasipit, P.I. (Surigoa Straits) July 25, 1945.
Discharged February 1946. Started Hoffco in Richmond with brother, Steve.
Invented Weedeater and other small power equipment. Held 64 patents.
Sold out in 1996 and retired.
Keith Hohenstein
Ernest Holliday
Malcolm Hollopeter
Ralph Holmes
Roy Holmes
Robert K Holt (U S Army)
Elmer Holzapfel
Richard Keith Holzapfel (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Pilot of P-38. Declared dead officially after plane was seen
to fall into Pacific Ocean off Point Reyes, California
Charles A Hood (U S Navy) KIA
Seaman First Class Killed in Mediterranean area
Donald Hoover
James "Bud" Hoover
Julian Hoover
Robert L Hoover
James Hopkins
Theodore Horine
Charles R Horney
Robert Horton
Lawrence Hough
Courtland (Jay) Houser
Norman Howard
Lawrence W Howe
Robert T Howell
William Howell
Douglas Hoyt
John Hoyt
Robert Hoyt (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Lieutenant. Pilot of B-17. Killed when plane went into tailspin over English Channel.
Served in Hawaii. Aircraft Mechanic and flew missions as Air Crewman.
William L Keiser
Clarence R Keller
John Keller
Robert H Keller
Vaughn Keller (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Private Marine. Killed on Iwo Jima.
Von Keller
William H Kelley III
Dale Kelly
Roland Kemp
Melvin Kendall Jr
Porter Kendall
James V Kennedy (U S Army) KIA
Technical Sergeant Killed in France
Robert Kennedy
Bob Kenney
Edward Kenney
Paul E Kessler
Phillip G Kessler
Robert Kessler
Howard E Ketrine
Marshal Ketring (U S Army)
Went into France with the Glider Corps
August Kettler Jr
Carl A Kettler
Howard E Kettring
James Kienker
Robert Kienker
Phillip H (Rod) Killion
Maxine Kinder
Ray Kinder
Elmer C Kindley
Virgil King
James Earl Kinley
Duane Kinyon
William Kirtley
Mark Kishego
Robert D Kisling (U S Army) KIA
Technical Sergeant Killed in European area.
Samuel M Kitchin
Duane E Klehfoth
Carl Kleinknecht
Richard Kleinknecht
H Eugene Kleman
Art Klingman
Dale Klingman
Don Klingman
Myron John Klute (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Master Sergeant On PT Boat. Died of illness in European area.
Thomas Klute
Charles Knauber
Harold Louis Knipper
Raymond Knoll
Ralph H Kofski
Karl Kolger
Louis G Kolger (U S Army Air Forces)
Entered service May 20, 1939.
Staff Sergeant, Radioman, 27th Bomb Group (Northrop A-24 Dive Bombers) in Southern U.S.
Worked on A-20 and Hudson bombers before leaving as advanced party for unit move to Philippines.
Aircraft shipped by sea. After war started, unit aircraft diverted to Australia.
Moved to Southern Luzon to establish airfield for flights to and from Australia. As Japanese approached
moved further south traveling at night in outrigger boats. Had only 17 rifles and 24 pistols.
When pointless to go on, the Americans and Philippinos went ashore at San Jose, Panay Island
and surrendered to Japanese Navy and Marine units on May 18, 1942 after the fall of Manila area on Luzon.
Treated reasonably. Moved to Manilla area by water and turned over to Japanese Army. Brutality began.
Work details on farms and airfield construction crews. Brutal treatment continued.
Knew Americans were coming when airfield he was working on was bombed on September 20-22, 1944 by U.S. Navy aircraft
from the USS Hornet (CV-12) (USS Hornet CV-8 had carried Doolittle raiders toward Japan in April of 1942,
then torpedoed and sunk October 26, 1942).
Held in the Philippines until December 1944 when American forces invaded Philippines.
Put aboard the Oryoku Maru and met Vernon Hobbs from Richmond along with 1519 other prisoners for movement to Japan.
No water, food or medical. Extreme heat.
Ship not marked as prisoners aboard and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft when leaving Subic Bay.
Prisoners swam to shore and moved to Lingayen Gulf by train and put aboard Enoura Maru.
Ship had been carrying horses. Hold deck covered with horse manure. No water, food or medical.
Enoura Maru sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft when anchored in Tako Bay, Formosa. Survivors swam to shore.
Survivors put aboard Brazil Maru and shipped to Mori, Japan on Christmas Day 1944.
Arrived in Mori, Japan in January -- mid-winter -- with underwear their only clothing.
Survivors put to work in abandoned, worked out, dangerous coal mines until freed by American occupation troops.
Louis survived and spent his career as an electronic technician for NASA. Retired and lives in Cincinnati.
These statements contain some inaccuracies regarding ships and locations. Hope to correct these soon.
A more accurate statement in much greater detail is available at this URL:
See www.oryokumaruonline.org and understand why atom bombs were dropped.
Also see Vernon Hobbs
(Per telephone visit with Louis G Kolger, 8-20-2002)
William Kolger
James A Koorsen
F Kortwright
Emmett Kreider
Kenneth K (Jack) Kreider (U S Marine Corps)
Served in the Pacific. Died January 25, 1992
Oliver Kreider
Dwain Kress
Albert Krick Jr
Francis Krick
Paul E Krick
Robert Kriegbaum
Robert Krone
Zenith Krout (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in France
Frank Krupa
Steven Krupa (U S Army) KIA
Private First Class Army Infantry. Killed in Belgium
Paul Kuchenbuch
David Kuhlman
George Norman Kutche (U S Navy) KIA
Aviation Radioman Third Class Aviation Radioman 3rd Class.
Lost in crash of dive bomber as it fell into Puget Sound.
First Lieutenant, Infantry Commander. Lake was killed in France on July 26, 1944 near
the village of Les Haies, Cerisy Forest, France. He was 25.
He was inducted into the U S Army in January 1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
Sent to Fort Custer, Michigan in mid-1941, then to Camp Forrest, Tennessee for maneuvers.
He trained with the 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion, First Artillery Bn and Anti-Tank Bn.
Made PFC and Corporal then graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia
on September 14, 1942 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. Stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in
Co. E, 9th Infantry at Camp Bullis, Texas, moved to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin November 17,1942.
There reassigned to Anti-Tank Co, 9th Infantry, 2nd Division.
Graduated from Morton High School in 1936 and signed to play baseball with the Cleveland Indians.
Played in the Mid-Atlantic League. Had been a catcher on the high school baseball team.
Survived by his wife, Mrs Virginia Lake, son, Walter E Lake and parents, Mr & Mrs Clyde Lake
all of Richmond. (Pal-Item article 1944)
Truman S Lamar
Riley Lamb (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Died of illness due to wounds received in South Pacific.
William E Lamb
Robert Land
Weldon C Land
Geroge R Lane
Ira Lane
Phillip Lane
Robert Lane
Leonard H Langen
Malcolm Lantz
Lee Larkin (U S Army) KIA
Private Died in European area of unknown cause.
William Larkin
B Keith Larsh
Billy L Larsh
Harvey C Larsh
Ralph Lashley
Verlin R Lawler
Jeanne Lawrence (U S Marine Corps)
Dale H Leas
William Leas
Harry W Leavell (U S Army Air Forces)
1170th College Training Detachment, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, beginning October 1943.
Then flight training in Classes 44I and 44J starting January 1944.
"Tuskegee Airman."
Everett Lehman (U S Army)
Served in Europe. Cut down by machine gun fire. Reported had both legs amputated.
Victor L Lemons
Verl Leonard (U S Army)
Wallace Leonard (U S Army)
Long service in New Guinea steaming jungles.
William Leonard (U S Navy)
On destroyer in the Pacific.
Ronald Lepanto
Arthur Leslie
Howard Lewis
Paul Lewis
William Dale Lewis (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Corporal Marine. Killed on Iwo Jima.
Charles E Libking
Ray Emerson Lichtenfels
Earl Liford
Estel C Liford
Robert E Limotta
Lowell C Little (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Flight Instructor. Killed in plane accident in Missouri.
Charles Livelsburger
Byrl Logan
James Z Logan
Earl Long
Frank H Long
Frank M Long
Fred Long
Thomas Bainbridge Justice Long (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Pilot of B-24 Liberator bomber.
Lost when his plane was hit over Bremen, Germany on December 23, 1943. Loved flying and always knew he would be a pilot.
Killed in bombing of Pearl Harbor,
December 7, 1941
Norman Neal
Edmond Neeley
John Newbold
Richard E Newbold
William E Newbold
Richard Newbolt
William E Newcomb (U S Army) KIA
Died of wounds received in France
Robert B Newton
John Nichelson
Charles B (Nick) Nichols
Frank Nichols
Hugh Nichols
Jesse Nicholson
John T Nicholson
Ralph H Nicholson
Harry Nicholson
Albert Nicoletta (U S Army) KIA
Private Paratrooper. Killed in Belgium
William R Niersbach
Carl Niewoehner
I (Bud) Niewoehner
Richard Niewoehner
Robert Niewoehner
Robert E Noble (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in Germany.
Rosemary Noland
Howard North
Charles Northcott
Harry Norton, Jr (U S Army)
December '42- November '45. 10th Armored Division in US, France, Luxembourg and Germany
for over two years. 13 months as truck driver.
Then Switchboard Operator and lineman.
Donald W Personette (U S Merchant Marine & U S Navy)
Went to sea at age 16 in the Merchant Marine in February 1944.
On board the Liberty ship SS Josiah Royce involved in the invasion of the Philippines.
Returned to Richmond shortly thereafter and joined the U S Navy in June 1945 at age seventeen.
Became Gunners Mate and served on the submarine USS Sea Robin (SS407)
While in the crew the boat made the first trip ever to round Cape Horn by a submarine.
After a couple of years, transferred to the Hospital Corps.
Was with the First Marine Division landing at Inchon, South Korea, in 1950.
Served on two other surface ships and a tour with the Marines on Okinawa,
tours in Argentina, New Foundland and three years in Japan.
Retired from the Navy at the old Naval Hospital at Pensacola, Florida.
Worked as a medical technician at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia
until retiring in 1985.
William Personnette
Kenneth Peters
Robert W Peters (Wayne County)
Emma J. Petersen (U S Army)
See Emma J. (Petersen) Consolino
Samuel Petnov
Robert J Petty
Mack Peyton
Donald Pfafflin
George M Pfeiffer
Giles Phelps
Charles Philhower (U S Army Air Forces/U S Air Force)
Instructor in the Cryptographic School at Scott Field, Illinois
George P Phillips (U S Navy)
Signalman Third Class (SM/3c) Served 1945 to 1946 aboard USS Hornet (CV-12) aircrft carrier
Henry Phillips
Oliver Phillips
Frank Pickering
Ethelda Pickett
Guy Piehe
Francis V Pierson (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Private First Class Killed in the Pacific area.
Harry J Pierson
James Pierson
William Pike
William S Plasterer
August Pollard
Ernest Pollard
William L Pollard
Tony Polver
Byron H Poppaw
Frank Porfidio
Michael Portanova
Charles Oliver Porter (U S Army)
Stationed in France. Injured there and brought back to the States to recover.
Private First Class Army Infantry. Died of wounds in action in Germany.
Charles H Reed
George L Reed
Harvey Reed
Mickey Reed
Nelson Reed
Robert Reed
Steward W Reed
John Reichert
William Reid (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Killed in African area.
Henry Reitzel
George Reller
William Reller
Kenneth Retherford
Dale Rethmeyer
Eugene Rhinehart
Emmett Rice
Ernest Rice
Harry E Rice
Dee Rice
Marshall Richards
Charles Richardson (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Private See list item.
Jim Richter
Jack Ricks
James (Bud) Riden (U S Navy)
Glen Ridenour Jr
John Ridge (U S Army Air Forces)
Private First Class, 1077th Army Air Forces Base Unit. Wounded in the Mediterranean area.
Hospitalized 3 times with shrapnel wounds and frostbite. (Pal-Item 10-31-44)
Robert T Ridge
Samuel Ridge
Thomas Ridpath
Gene Rieser
Charles William Riester
Jack Righter
Herbert Ringley Jr
Robert Ringley
Howard L Ritz
Charles Roan
John Robbins
John S Roberts
Daniel Robinson
Dorothy June Robinson
Edward Robinson
Eugene Robinson
James Robinson
Robert Robinson
Leonard Rockwell
Richard Rodal
Robert E Rodefeld
William Rodefeld
Earl Rodgers
Eugene Rodgers
Lyell E Rodgers
Fred M Roe
Justus Roemer
Earl Rogers
Robert J Rogers
Joseph L Rohe
Robert Rohe
Roderick Rohe
Marion F Rohrer
Robert Rollf
Darrel Rollins
Robert Rollins
James Romey
William Romey
William A Rosa
James Rose
Martha J Roser
Audrie B Ross
Henry Albert Ross
William O Ross
Marvin Rothert
Paul Rothert
Bernard Rourke
James F Rourke
John D Rourke
Joseph E Rourke
Robert Routh
Horace L Rowe (U S Army) KIA
Private Airborne Division. Killed in European area
James R Rowe (U S Army) KIA
Staff Sergeant Infantry. Killed in France
Richard E Rowe (U S Army)
Robert P Rowe
Paul Runge
Carl Runnels (U S Navy)
Lieutenant. Joined the Navy for flight training in 1941, and assigned to Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
Evanston, Illinois. Additional flight training in Minneapolis, Des Moines and Florida. Received his wings in
San Diego. Sent to Pacific area: Hawaii, many small South Pacific islands and Tinian. Served until 1948. He returned to and completed his education at Indiana State Teachers College, now Indiana State University,
receiving his Bachelor's Degree and worked toward a Master's Degree. Resigned his Navy commission and
joined the Florida Air National Guard at the rank of Lientenant. He flew F-51s and F-80s.
His unit was activated for the Korean War, and trained at Victorville, California, then moved to Masawa, Japan.
Now a Captain, his unit flew ground support missions from Japan to Korea with F-80s. Up for Major,
he decided that was enough. Interestingly, he was replaced in his unit by Ernie Ravinet, Jr. of Richmond.
Donald Eugene Runnels, Sr. (U S Navy)
Served in the Pacific as a SK3 aboard LST 487 and then USS Haven (AH12)
After the war, he was part of Operation Crossroads at the Bikini Atoll. (By his son, William D. Runnels,Jr)
John W Rupe
Bert Russell
James R Russell
Bernard (Bernie) Ryan
Glenn H Ryan (U S Navy) Survived the war. (By Janice Ryan Douglas, sister)
Leo Ryan
Robert A Ryan
Robert L Ryan
Walter W Ryan
William E Ryan (U S Army) KIA
Entered service October 1942
Died January 16, 1945. Awards: Purple Heart, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
with Bronze Battle Star, World War II Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Sharp Shooter Medal.
(By Janice Ryan Douglas, sister)
First Lieutenant, Signal Corps.
After the war, he was an Electrical Engineer at NATCO until he retired.
Six Salzarulo brothers served in the military services of the United States in the war.
They were in order of age:
Framk
Raymond Paul
Albert
Robert L.
William
Mark
All survived the war except Raymond, lost in the Battle of Midway.
Frank Salzarulo (U S Army)
Captain
Morton HS Class of '29. IU graduate 1934, Journalism;
Commission 2nd Lt 1943, US Army. Served under Gen Hodges in 1st Army in N. African campaign 1944/45.
Before going overseas, he "promised" his Mom that he would "bring back" his brother, Bob,
who was POW in Germany. Following German surrender, Captain Frank searched for days among
repatriated POWs and finally located Bob somewhere in France.
They returned together onboard a military ship to New York where they boarded a troop train
headed for Camp Atterbury, Indiana, in early May, 1945. The train made a special stop
in Richmond where their parents had a brief but joyous visit on the Pennsylvania RR platform.
The Richmond Palladium-Item newspaper did a story with photos of that momentous occasion.
Frank said, "See Mom, I told you so". Honorably Discharged 1946. In the post-war years until
his death in 1989, Frank was a news reporter for the Indianapolis News.
Mark Salzarulo (U S Army Air Forces)
Corporal
RHS Class of '44. Enlisted in Army Air Forces Cadets 20 Sept 1943 at age of 17;
Upon reaching age 18 in April of 1944, he received orders to report for active duty
03 May 1944 at Fort Thomas, Ky. In pre-flight training in Texas, he resigned in favor
of radio operator and mechanic training, Scott Field, Illinois. He later served 8 months
with the 141st Army Airways Communication System (AACS) Squadron in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
of Operations. Honorable Discharge, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Separation Center, 15 May 1946
at the rank of corporal. American Theater Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon,
Good Conduct Medal, Victory Medal WWII
Raymond Paul Salzarulo (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Major Salzarulo was pilot on LB-30, a special purpose B-24 from Midway Island.
Lost on predawn raid to Wake Island, June 7, 1942.
Action was part of Battle of Midway.
Mission Commander Major General Clarence L Tinker (Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, OK)
was on board. All eleven on board lost.
Ray had not received notice of his promotion to Major at the time of his death.
Robert L. Salzarulo (U S Army Air Forces)
Retired as Colonel, USAF, in 1969 after 29 1/2 years service.
Morton HS, Class of '37.
Enlisted Army Air Corps Cadets November, 1940. Received his Pilot's Wings and 2nd Lt. commission 1941.
1943 assigned 386th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, based in England. B-24 Bomber Pilot.
Shot down 7 June 1943 over The Netherlands (Holland) returning to England from a bomb raid over Berlin.
Captured by German troops. Became POW for remainder of the war. After the war, he was President of
Aluminum Company of Cincinnati, Stamping and Extrusions. Died 08 July 1993
William Salzarulo (U S Navy)
Commamder. Port Captain for Manila Harbor in early 1945.
David Hoff landed in Manila fresh from Marseilles, France in June 1945. Made landing on Nasipit Bay-Surigou Straits,
Island of Mindanao. Got back to Manila in November 1945 in hospital with malaria and Dengue fever. Surprise! Bill showed up to visit.
When out of hospital, Bill showed up again with his Harbor Craft! Had thick steaks on real china! That was real living!
Stayed there a weekend and never forgot him. After the war, he was partner in Richmond Paving Contractors "Ish" McGaw Company.
Allen Sanders
William Sanders
Cecil Sasher
Richard Sasher
George Sauter
George Sawyer
Joseph Sawyer
Thomas Sawyer
Betty J Sayer
Kenneth Schenk
Calvin Schepman
Albert (Bert) Scherb
Nicholson (Nick) Schively
Frederick Schneider
John Schneider
Frank H Schroeder
Don Schuerman
Richard W Schuerman
Arthur Schultz
Jack Schultz
James M Schultz
John Schultz (U S Army)
John Schultz was the first person from Richmond to enlist on December 8, 1941
in the service after the attack on Pearl Harbor the day before. (Pal-Item, Dec 8, 1941)
William Schuneman
Robert Schutte
Richard (Dick) Scotece
James Scott
Virgil Seaney
Frederich (Norm) Seikel
Robert Selby
Carl Sell
Arnold Selle
Fred Selle
Samuel Sellers
Malcolm Semler
Paul E Sena
John Senese
Frank Seusy
John Seveges
John R Shaak
Richard E Shackelford
Raymond Shank
Thomas T Shannon
James Sharkitt
Patrick Sharkitt
Regina A Sharkitt
Donald Sharp
Jesse Thomas Sheets, Sr
Russell Sheffer
Kenneth Sherer
Marion J. Sherer (U S Army)
Paul Sherrow
Alvin Shipley
Bert Shipley
John Shipley
Eugene Shores
Jack Shores
Paul R Showalter
Roland Showalter
Garth A Sibert
Jack Sickmann (U S Navy)
'44. Served aboard USS Windam Bay, CVE 92.
Darrell Siders
Donald Siders
Marlan L Siders
William Silliman
Glen V Silvers
Archie Simonson
Charles Simpson
Reed Simpson
James Sims (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Aerial gunner. Killed in European area.
Alan Sinex
Charles R Sinex
Robert Sinex
Nelson Sinex
Ivan E Sittloh (U S Army) KIA
Army Field Artillery
Robert Skinner
John M Sligar
Raymond Sligar
John Smarelli
George Smedinghoff
John Smelser
lloyd Smelser
Adrian Smith
David Lee Smith
Edwin Smith (U S Merchant Marine)
Served on Liberty Ship "Nelson Dingley."
Turned eighteen in South Pacific.
Francis Smith
James Smith
James L Smith
Paul Smith (U S Army) KIA
Private Died in Belgium
Raymond Smith
Richard Smith
Robert Smith
Russell Charles Smith (U S Army)
Ruth Smith
Kenneth Smithmeyer
Harry Snyder
Cornelius Ray Soper (U S Navy) KIA
Coxswain
Eugene Soper
Clarence B Souder
Robert Sowers
Carl Spalding
Louise Spalding
Clayton Sparks
William V Sparks
Vincent Spaulding
Jim Sperling
Thomas Sperling
William L Spicer
Wilson Spicer
Doris F Stadelman
Esther Starbuck
Glen M Starbuck (U S Army)
'42-'46. Trained soldiers to drive tanks at Camp Hood, Texas.
Sent to England, France and Germany. Guarded the Remagen Bridge over the Rhein River.
Over on the Queen Mary. Back on a Liberty ship.
Earl Starr
Edward Starr
H G Starr
William S Starr
Emmett Stegall
Eugene Stegall
John Stella
Russell Stephenson
Dale Stevens
Lawrence Stevens
W Ray Stevens Jr
James Stevenson (U S Navy)
'45-'46 in Shanghai, China.
Donald J Stiens
Oren C Stiens
Philip H Stigleman
Ransom Stigleman
Fred Stikleather
Wilbur Stikleather
Robert Stimmel
Eugene Stinetorf (U S Army) KIA
Private First Class Drowned in New Guinea area
Robert Stinetorf
Dudley Stinson
Robert Stinson (U S Army)
In the Pacific area 1944 to 1946.
Donald J Stolle
Earl Stolle
Robert J Stolle
William Stolle
Dale Stout
Walter Stout
Ray Stover
Roland Stover (U S Army) KIA
Corporal. Tank driver in Reconnaissance Company, ?? Division.
Killed in Belgium January 7, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge.
William T Thistlethwaite (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Lieutenant Thistlethwaite was the first P-47 pilot to dive bomb German territory.
351st Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group, Eighth Fighter Command.
Flew from England beginning July 1943.
Detached service to Ninth Air Force to destroy ground targets prior to D-Day
when lost. Aircraft hit by ground fire on raid to Hasselt, Belgium, May 12, 1944.
Bailed out over North Sea 30 miles off Belgium and last seen alive on raft.
Rescuers could not find him after refueling and returning.
Body cast ashore in Belgium June 24, 1944. Civilians buried him in WWI British Military
Cemetery at Coxyde. Exhumed after war, examined and moved to permanent burial.
Broken left leg. Must have hit tail on bailout. Likely died of hypothermia after
submerging in frigid water on parachute landing. Buried in U S Military Cemetery at
Margraten, Netherlands. Plot O, Row 14, Grave 13
Distinguished Flying Cross
Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Bruce Thomas
Charles Thomas
Edward Thomas
Howard Thomas
Oliver Thomas (U S Army) KIA
Killed in France in the Battle of the Bulge shortly before the war ended.
Raysor W Thomas (U S Army)
Cook 2. Fought at Hemoshima.
Richard Thomas
Richard O Thomas
Byron Thompson
H William Thompson
Roger Thompson
Roger E Thompson
Darrell W Thorman
Robert Thorman
John Thorne
Francis F Tieman
Richard Tiernan
William Tillson
Robert D Timmons
Robert Tobin (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Staff Sergeant Turret gunner. Declared dead officially after missing in action over France shortly after D-Day
37th Infantry. Served from November 1942 to October 1945. Stationed in Belgium.
Ernest J Way
Duane Weaver
Robert Weaver
Eugene Webb (U S Navy)
Gene R Webb (U S Army)
115th Station Hospital. Stationed in England, France and Germany, 1942 to 1946
Steven Weddle
James Weesner
Roscoe Wehrley
Roy Wehrley (U S Army Air Forces)
Bombardier on B-17s.
Harold Weibker
Florence Weidner
Frank Weirich
Charles Weisbrod
P G Weisehahn
Arthur Schroeder (Bud) Wellbaum (U S Army) Captain
Survived Pearl Harbor, Hawaii attack on December 7, 1941.
Served from 2 January 1941 to 28 February 1946.
Fort Totten, New York from 2 January 1941 to August 1941.
Second Lieutennant, Artillery, Intelligence Battalion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. September 1941 to February 1943.
Returned to the States for additional training. Camp Callan, California March 1943 to September 1943.
Then fought in European Campaign. Battery D, 798 Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Europe.
England, France, Germany, Austria from October 1943 to October 45.
Awards: Pacific Theater Service Ribbon with 2 battle stars.
European Theater Service Ribbon with 2 battle stars.
(By Jon M Igelman, MD, nephew) (Totals updated)
(By Jon M Igelman, MD, nephew)
Fred Welsh
Howard P Wentling (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Chief Engineering Test Pilot.
Killed in bomber crash in Denver, Colorado.
Ferdinand Werner
Fredrick Werner
George Werner
Robert C Werner
Robert L Werner
Myron J Wessel (U S Army) KIA
Army Infantry. Died of wounds received in France
William G Wessel
John W Whalen
John Whelan
Charles Whitacre
Calvin Whitaker
Charles Whitaker
Alphonso White
Corlis White
Donald White
E Grant White
Herman< White
James White
Joseph White
Richard White
Charles Whitesell
Harold Wibker
Byron Wickett
Louis Wiesehan Jr (U S Marine Corps) KIA
Private Killed in South Pacific.
Richard Wiesehan
Earl Wiggans
Norman Wiggans (U S Navy)
Frederick Wiggins
Joseph D Wildig
Raymond Wildig Jr
Robert S Wiliams
William Willett
Arthur Williams
Carl Williams
Charles E Williams
Denver Williams
Eugene Williams
Jerry Williams
William E Williams
Robert Williams
Orville Williamson
Orville J Willis (U S Navy)
Howard Willoughby
William D Willson Jr
Harry A Wilson (U S Navy)
Enlisted US Navy October 1939.
On (FDR) Presidential yacht, The Potomac, in early '42.
Moved to destroyers, eventually USS John Rodgers.
In Southwest Pacific November '42 to mid-'44.
Tarawa, The Solomons and other combat.
Pacific Campaign Ribbon with silver star indicating five major battles.
His final rate was FC2C.
He was a fire control (gunnery) instructor at the District of Columbia Navy Yard
from Autumn '44 until his honorable discharge a year later.
Phillip Wilson (U S Army Air Forces)
B-25 Radio Operator/Gunner. 1942 to 1945
Leroy Wilson
Robert Wilson
Thomas L Wilson
George E Winder
Harold Jr Wine
Vernon E Winters
Henry Wishard
Richard D Wissler
Ralph H Witte
Raymond Witte
Richard Witte
John F Wohlhueter
Hubert Earl Wolfel
F Glen Wood
James E Wood
James T Wood
Woodford Wood
Kenneth W Wooden (U S Army) KIA
Private Killed in European area.
Edward Woodhead
Jerry Woodhead
Wayne Woodhead
Robert Woodhurt
Paul Woodworth
Donald Wright
Howard E Wright
James C Wright
Max Wright
Richard Wright
Robert J Wright
William Russell Wright, Jr (U S Army Air Forces) KIA
Copilot of B-24 Liberator bomber. Declared dead after missing in action.
Special thanks to Cliff Davis of New Paris, Ohio for the list of about 1400 names of Veteransfrom the Memorial Plaques at the entrance of Richmond High School.
Special thanks to Phyllis Mattheis of Cambridge City, Indiana for the list of 380 World War II
service personnel from Jackson Township.
Special thanks to Myron W Brown of Huntington, Indiana for the Palladium-Item article copy
which lists 158 service personnel from Wayne County who died in World War II.
The information in these lists has come from many sources. Some are from print articles from
the Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana newspaper. The major portion of the Wayne Township list
is from the names listed on the World War II Memorial Plaques in the entrance to Richmond High School.
Almost all of the names for Jackson Township were on a memorial plaque displayed for many years in
Cambridge City. We understand it no longer is there.
About two hundred names in the lists have been requested by individuals. We have entered the information
as it was conveyed to us. We have no way to confirm the accuracy of the information, but used reasonable care
to assure it was entered as received. It was evident that some information supplied by family members
was not accurate as they were not familiar with unit designations, military equipment, terminology
or activities. We attempted in a few cases to use our military experience and knowledge to increase the
accuracy without changing the value of the information materially.
Occasionally, the branch of service was added where none had been stated based on our knowledge of
the military units active in that area. For example, there were few if any United State Marine Corps
units involved in the European conflict. The Marine units were very active in the South Pacific.
Therefore, there are a few cases where a man's branch is shown as U S Marine Corps where it should
U S Army or vice versa. Our intent was to provide as much information as possible. Please notify us
if you know of errors like this or any others.
Our intent is to recognize the honorable activities of all who served in the military services in World War II.
Unfortunately, there is a vast number who have no information other than their name listed. There likely
are several hundred others from Wayne County who served, but whose names are not even on the lists.
