A career sailor who served aboard a famed American cruiser lost in the dark opening months of the Pacific War
Category: Pacific Theater
Chief Warrant Officer Russell T. Crawford (c. 1904–1945)
A career soldier with over two decades' service in the segregated U.S. Army who boarded an ill-fated flight when he was rotated home from the Pacific
Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Ralph R. Skillman (c. 1925–1944)
A sailor from Newark, Delaware, who was one of the first kamikaze victims
Captain Edgar C. Boggs (1918–1945)
A West Point graduate and infantry company commander who was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his actions in the Philippines
Sergeant Martin Eisenman (1916–1944)
An aircraft mechanic from Wilmington caught in the ill-fated Philippine Islands during his second enlistment in the U.S. Army
Sergeant Harry Fineman (1916–1942)
The first soldier from Delaware killed in action during World War II, who earned the Silver Star Medal during the defense of the Philippines
Corporal John F. Scisley (1918–1943)
A Marine from Kirkwood killed on his first day of combat at the Tarawa Atoll
Private 1st Class John E. Adams, Jr. (1921–1944)
An engineer captured in the fall of Corregidor who spent over two years as a prisoner before dying in the sinking of an infamous hell ship
Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class George A. Penuel, Jr. (1919–1941)
A sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor and by some definitions, the first Delawarean killed in action during World War II
Seaman 1st Class James A. Tull (1910–1945)
A sailor from Sussex County, Delaware, killed in an infamous sinking in the closing days of the Pacific War
Delaware's World War II Fallen 