Christian Pfohl
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action. Burial and memorial marker in the Netherlands.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
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James Prather
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Article says he contracted desert fever in Colorado and died in a Fayetteville, NC Veterans Hospital. Father wrote that he died in Panama. Funeral in Washington, GA.
Age at Death: 25
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Rudy Randall
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Participated in the invasion of Holland on Sep 17.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer, 10-13-1944
James Phifer
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Germany. Memorial service at Assembly of God Church on Jun 24, 1945. Buried in Holland. Postcard of US Military Cemetery at Margraten enclosed. His name is engraved on the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington.
Age at Death: 23
Image Source: CN 6-23-45
Clyde Pressley
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died non-battle. Memorial marker at Ft. McKinley, Manila, PI.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Jack Rape
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Normandy, France. Funeral service held at Greenland Avenue Baptist Church, with burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery to follow.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 8-3-1944
James Philbeck
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Paratrooper who was reported missing in action in Italy.
Age at Death: 20
Image Source: newsprint-unknown 4-13-1944
Eugene Pressley
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in service in the war. Memorial marker at National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Roger Rayburn
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had been overseas since April 1944. He was wounded in action on January 24, 1945, near Strasbourg, France. He died of wounds on January 26 or 28th, 1945. Rayburn was buried in a military cemetery in Epimal, France. His memorial service was at Second Presbyterian Church in Charlotte on April 15, 1945.
Age at Death: 26
Image Source: Carolina Room photo
Harry Phillips
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action on Luzon. Memorial marker at Ft. McKinley, Manila, PI.
Age at Death: 28
Image Source: CN 3-13-45