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Gold Star Veterans

Rumsey Pete Lewis

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in an accident at Camp Mackall, NC.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Leonard Lundquist

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Listed on the 1946 YMCA Honor List and killed in a plane crash.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Richard McCallum

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Captured in the fall of Corregidor and died of malaria as a Japanese POW.

Age at Death: 23

Image Source: Charlotte Observer 7-7-45

Clarence Lewis, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in North Africa.

Age at Death: 25

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 8-29-1943

Taze Lundy

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of wounds received in combat on Oct 14. Also awarded Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat in France in July, 1944.

Age at Death: 22

Image Source: CO 11-12-44

Turner McCarley

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the South Pacific per Sep 3, 1943 newsprint.

Age at Death: 25

Image Source: newsprint-unknown

Alfred Little

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in a plane crash at Jacksonville, FL.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Angus Lytch, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died in a plane crash near Katha, Burma, after completing 75 missions over enemy held Northern Burma in 1944. After his 99th mission, he was assigned a desk job, but he insisted on flying. He died on his 101st mission. He had been in the China-Burma-India Theater for 9 months, as of 9/1944, and had spent the previous summer at Morris Field in Charlotte. Military funeral held on Jan. 15, 1945, with burial in a military cemetery in Burma.

Age at Death: 26

Image Source: Carolina Room photo

William McClain

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Morotai. Memorial services in Charlotte pending the arrival of his brothers.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

George Andy Little

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Four planes were on a routine flight from Otis Field, MA to Norfolk, VA when the weather closed in. Little bailed out of his plane, which crashed, but his chute did not open in time. Funeral was at the Sharon Presbyterian Church on April 20, 1945, and burial was in the church cemetery.

Age at Death: 30

Image Source: Mecklenburg Times 4-19-45