Gold Star Veterans

Warren Miller

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He made a routine flight until he reached the designated drop zone. His glider was cut loose from the tow plane and crashed into the side of the house. Then he took cover under a hedgerow and unloaded the glider the next day with the help of some paratroopers. From then, he got two mines and blasted a concrete wall eight feet high to get a mobile gun on the road. He was able to get a jeep from a glider that had landed nearby and took equipment through the breach and made a road block. This helped him and other paratroopers retake the nearby town.

Calvin Morgan

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Germany.

Age at Death: 27

Image Source: CN 4-11-45

R. McLendon

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died at Camp Forrest, TN.

Age at Death: 19

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Frank Miller, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Lost his life when the destroyer USS Morrison was attacked by 4 Japanese suicide bombers and sunk rapidly. Memorial service held at 1st Presbyterian Church on 8-4-46.

Age at Death: 20

Image Source: Charlotte Observer 5-15-46

Harry Morgan

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Wounded in action in Italy on Nov. 12th and died on the 16th. Memorial marker in Florence, Italy. He, along with others in the 3131st Signal Service Company, are mentioned in a book, The Last Farewell.

Age at Death: 25

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 12-5-1944

J. Moore

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force before the United States entered the war. His wife was living in Spartanburg, SC, at the time of his death.

Originally from Anderson County, SC, he had worked in Charlotte prior to his entry into the Royal Canadian Air Force. When his wife received the news of his death, it was unclear whether he had been killed in England or somewhere on the Continent. The newspaper said he was 27 in the summer of 1941.

Hinton McLeod

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed when the plane he was flying in crashed on April 2nd at Turner Field.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Davidson College Bulletin

Julian Miller, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: In his autobiography, Evangelist Billy Graham wrote that during his youth, Julian was his best friend. He met his wife at Central High School and married her at Buckingham Air Force Base in Florida in May 1943. He entered the service with his brother, Rob, in Spartanburg, SC. Miller, along with Ned Potter of Duplin Co., NC, were killed, when their B-24D Liberator, crashed into the side of a mountain in New Guinea, after just minutes of being in the air.

Thomas Morgan

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Memorial marker in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Jesse Red McMillian

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Unavailable

Age at Death: 21

Image Source: The Spinning Wheel - April, 1944

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