Drafted a few months after marrying, he went into combat for the first time on Sicily
Category: U.S. Army
Private 1st Class Alfred A. Rosendale (1916–1943)
A National Guardsman recalled to duty after Pearl Harbor, he had a varied career in Coast Artillery, Military Police, and Corps of Engineers units
Technician 5th Grade John W. Fullman, Jr. (1911–1944)
A shipyard worker who became a truck driver in a segregated Quartermaster Corps unit
Private Francis C. Dill (1908–1943)
A combat engineer who first went into battle during the Sicily campaign
Lieutenant Colonel Louis E. Roemer (1901–c. 1945)
A senior Chemical Warfare Service officer in the Philippines prior to the American surrender, he helped many other soldiers as a prisoner of war
Private John J. Bukowski (1912–1944)
A replacement rifleman who was reported missing over two weeks after his death and whose brief time in combat is shrouded in mystery
Private 1st Class Edgar W. Stevenson (1919–1942)
The first soldier killed in action from New Castle City during World War II
Private 1st Class Paul H. Rigdon (1923–1944)
A machinist who was a member of an ill-fated unit encircled during the Battle of the Bulge
Private Herbert Rubenstein (1923–1944)
A Jewish medic whose unit was encircled at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge
Private 1st Class Nathan Balick (1919–1944)
A Jewish infantryman who first went into combat in Normandy shortly after D-Day
Delaware's World War II Fallen 