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Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Buried at sea with full military honors.He had served in the Atlantic Theater taking part in the D-Day invasion before being assigned to the Pacific Area. Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: 19
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Listed as MIA after the surrender of Corregidor, the Japanese Government informed the Red Cross that Dixon had died. He was held as a Japanese POW in the Philippines. Memorial service at St. Marks Lutheran Church on Feb 21, 1943.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Married Sept 21, 1942. Memorial Service held February 1946 at Philadelphia Presbyterian Church in Mint Hill. He was a scout car driver and was killed while crossing the Moselle River. Memorial marker in Luxembourg.
Age at Death: 21
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Ran into heavy flak over Heidelberg and was seen going into a dive. Three parachutes were seen and 2 of flyers were accounted for. He took part in the invasion of Southern France and had completed over 50 missions at the time of his last flight.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in the crash of a B-29 bomber at Fort Riley. Memorial planned to be built at Davidson College by his parents in memory of their two sons who were killed. Memorial service held at Davidson Presbyterian Church on Feb 1, 1945. Burial in Davidson.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was lost at sea when his merchant ship was torpedoed. His first ship had been sunk, but he was rescued. He had only been at sea 12 days when his death occurred. Memorial marker at Cambridge, England.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of burns received in action on the USS Curtis in Okinawa Bay on June 21, 1945. He was being transported on a Navy Hospital ship to Guam and died en route. On July 2, he was buried in the Army, Navy and Marine Cemetery No.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Japanese POW captured on Corregidor, held at Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province Luzon. Died when the Japanese vessel he was on, the Enoura Maru, was bombed and sunk in Subic Bay. Memorial marker at Fort McKinley, Manila, PI.
Age at Death: 31
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was a member of a crew in a bomber which departed from Italy on a combat mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria on July 16. The plane sustained damage during the mission and went into a spin.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died from injuries sustained when a jeep in which he and several companions were returning from an army mission was overturned. The 213 men in his squadron adopted Williams son and sent 25 English pounds monthly to Mrs. Funderburk.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed at Quonsett Point, RI when the wing of his TB7 failed, and they crashed into the ocean. Memorial services at Tabernacle ARP Church on May 31, 1944. Burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte with full military honors.
Age at Death: 21
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was wounded on 7-9-1944 and returned to his unit on 8-11-1945, after receiving the Purple Heart. He was originally reported as missing in action on 8/29/45, and was later declared dead as of this date. Memorial marker at Normandy, France.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Aboard USS Quincey when it was sunk. The first torpedo hit near the Plot Room where Sam was stationed. File includes family history back to early 1700s. Memorial marker at Ft. McKinley, Manila, PI.
Age at Death: 35
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was to have been discharged in June, 1945, but he was killed in a vehicle accident just a few weeks earlier. Memorial service were held at Parkwood ARP Church on April 1, 1945.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He served under General MacArthur in Australia and New Guinea before being sent to the Philippines. He died on 5-31-1945 from wounds received in action on May 27th on Mindanao Island in the Philippines.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action. His body was returned to the America aboard the U. S. Army transport Greenville Victory in June 1948. His body was returned to his mother, who was living at 819 Louise Avenue, Charlotte.
Age at Death: 19
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed off of the Green Islands, Solomon Islands, south Pacific Ocean.Body was later returned to the U.S. Services were held at Belmont Park Methodist Church, with interment at Elmwood Cemetery on Apr 17, 1949.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Memorial service on Oct. 7, 1945 at Moravian Little Church on the Lane. While flying a disabled glider over the English channel, he ordered crew members to parachute and landed in the channel. Memorial marker in Cambridge, England cemetery.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Memorial Service at Philadelphia Presbyterian Church on June 3, 1945. Killed in action near Fredeburg, Germany and buried with the Protestant faith in a military cemetery in Ittenbach, Germany. Memorial marker in the Netherlands.
Age at Death: 22
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: His wife published Philippine Postscripts to give to ~800 families of men captured by the Japanese in the Battle of the Philippines. Grimes was executed while a Japanese POW held in the Philippines. Wife later moved to Ft. McClellan, AL.