Private Marvin Hughes is memorialized at Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Raymond Zussman was a Jewish American soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in honor of his valor during World War II. Zussman (born July 23, 1917; died September 21, 1944) was born in in Hamtramck, Michigan and joined the U.S. Army from Detroit, Michigan in September 1941. ...
Rank/Rate Motor Machinist's Mate, First Class
Service Number 622 95 61
Birth Date December 5, 1920
From Montfort, Wisconsin
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Snook (SS-279)
Loss Date April 9, 1945
Location Near 18° 40' N x 110° 40' E
Circumstances Lost...
LCPL Abner was awarded the Purple Heart.
PRESS RELEASE | Oct. 16, 2023
Soldier Accounted for from WWII
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Woodrow F. Gerdes, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 25, 2023.
In N...
Only hours after Lt. Ellen Ainsworth succumbed to shrapnel wounds, a few dozen mourners gathered on the beachhead of Anzio, Italy, to honor the Army nurse who would be the only woman from Wisconsin to die from enemy fire in World War II.
A German bomb had exploded outside her tent four...
Paul Hamaker - Young/Elementary School
Bruce was my only brother. He was a proud Marine and volunteered for Vietnam from being a honor guard in Washington DC. He was killed in VN in his first mission at 18 years old. He grew up in Goshen Ohio and after his death , there were 5 others friends and classmates that lost their lives in V...
Sgt. Evan Parker Memorial Pavilion on Ft. Shafter Flats 9th Mission Officier Support Squadron Honolulu Hawaii
SP6 was awarded the Bronze Star (merit)
Though we miss you so much my brother Valiant, we are very proud of you. Thank you for your sacrifice. We love you very much and Merry Christmas! Ate
As can best be determined, Fred progressed through boot camp, and flight school, eventually becoming a Lockheed P-38 fighter pilot in the US Army Air Forces, 459th Fighter Squadron, 80th Fighter Group, ultimately stationed at Chittigong, Burma.