One of the early draftees from Delaware who found himself in Alaska after a Japanese offensive there
Category: U.S. Army
Technician 4th Grade William H. Allen (1916–1944)
A member of a black Transportation Corps unit who worked on the docks at Southampton immediately after D-Day in Normandy
Private 1st Class Ormal C. Leedom, Jr. (1906–1943)
A member of a medical unit who served in North Africa and Sicily
Private William H. Hudson (1923–1943)
A young soldier who served in the force garrisoning Iceland
Technician 5th Grade Harold T. Hitchens (1915–1944)
An armorer in a rifle company who trained for years stateside before entering combat during the Rhineland campaign
Private Thomas M. Gooden, III (1922–1944)
A young soldier in the Coast Artillery Corps who joined the Army Specialized Training Program
2nd Lieutenant Paul W. Taylor (1911–1942)
He overcame the odds in the segregated U.S. Army to become a commissioned officer shortly before tragedy took his life
Corporal John H. Prettyman (1919–1942)
A noncommissioned officer injured in an accident at Fort Miles
Private Samuel A. Matthews, Jr. (1924–1944)
The father of a young child who went into combat as a replacement rifleman at Monte Cassino
Private Ralph G. Henretty (1925–1944)
A young rifleman who first went into combat at Monte Cassino
Delaware's World War II Fallen 