An Army Air Forces pilot who lost his life in a mysterious plane crash during crew training
Category: American Theater
Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Joseph Ackerman (1923–1945)
A photographer’s mate stricken by cancer during his training
Corporal Vollie C. Hudson (1920–1945)
An N.C.O. in an Army Air Forces maintenance unit whose last furlough home before going overseas proved tragic
1st Lieutenant Paul B. Selbe (1902–1944)
The story of a patent attorney who became an officer assigned to the Manhattan Engineer District
1st Lieutenant Edgar B. Worley, Jr. (1915–1944)
A pilot in a gunnery training unit who died in a stateside training accident shortly after becoming a father.
2nd Lieutenant James C. Clark (1919–1944)
A B-29 Superfortress navigator killed in a tragic training accident shortly before he was scheduled to ship out for the Pacific
Corporal Caleb O. Simpler (1917–1942)
A member of an antiaircraft unit whose ship fell victim to a U-boat while returning to attend Officer Candidate School
2nd Lieutenant George M. Johnson (1920–1944)
A pilot from Seaford who will soon return home, at long last, over 77 years after his death at the Tarawa Atoll
Seaman 1st Class Robert J. Donovan (1923–1943)
A sailor killed in an accidental collision east of Nantucket
2nd Lieutenant F. Robert Thoroughgood (1910–1942)
The first serviceman from Newark to die during World War II
Delaware's World War II Fallen 