Speros Kleto
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died non-battle.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
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Luther Mac Lawrence
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: While crossing the English channel his ship was hit. Last seen going below deck to helped trapped and injured men escape. Buried at Normandy, France and a memorial marker placed.
Age at Death: 20
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Zachariah Jackson
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action. Memorial marker in Cambridge, England.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: CO 2-22-44
Carl Jordan
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Lost his life off of Okinawa when the USS Morrison was sunk by 4 direct hits from suicide planes. Memorial service held Sep 16, 1945 at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: 20
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 5-25-45
Richard Knapp
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action after going into Normandy soon after D-Day. Has also served a year in Army and then gone into the Reserves before he was recalled. Memorial service at his home on Sep 13, 1944.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Observer 9-12-44
Joseph Joe James
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: While parachuting into Germany he was hit by flak and killed after his first combat jump. Buried in the American military cemetery in Margraten, Holland. Memorial service at West Avenue Presbyterian Church on Apr 29, 1945.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: CO 1-14-45
Thomas Tommy Joyner
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin when it was badly damaged off of Okinawa. A Japanese suicide bomber dropped two 500-pound armor piercing bombs, which resulted in explosions, fires, and the loss of 832 men, including Joyner and his cousin, Robert Ephrian Abell, Jr.Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Age at Death: 19
Image Source: Carolina Room photo
Herbert Knight
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the South Pacific. Memorial service at Oakhurst Baptist Church on Sep 5, 1943. Memorial marker at Ft McKinley, manila, PI.
Age at Death: 24
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Alexander Sandy James, III
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: While on a low-level attack of the Burma-Siam Railway, his plane was hit by machine gun fire. It exploded in mid-air. Buried by the Japanese at the crash scene near Ye, Burma. This was his 28th combat mission.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: CN 4-2-46
Oscar Joyner, Jr.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in France. He was with one of the first waves to land on the beachheads of France. Buried with memorial marker at the US Cemetery at Normandy, France.
Age at Death: Unavailable
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