A member of an antiaircraft unit whose ship fell victim to a U-boat while returning to attend Officer Candidate School
Category: U.S. Army
Technician 5th Grade Dominick La Monica (1907–1944)
A pharmacist from New York fatally injured in an accident shortly before he was to return home
2nd Lieutenant Rachel H. Sheridan (1918–1943)
A nurse destined to become the only servicewoman from Delaware to die overseas during World War II
Private Adam S. Adamowicz (1921–1944)
A high school football star turned tank crewman killed in action during the drive on Rome
Captain William W. Galt (1919–1944)
An infantry officer from Montana who earned the Medal of Honor during the breakout from Anzio
Technician 5th Grade Robert Stafford (c. 1908–1944)
A Georgian in a engineer unit, the victim of a heinous, racially motivated murder in England
Sergeant Herman Cohen (1918–1944)
An infantryman from Wilmington who wrote a haunting letter shortly before he was killed in action in Normandy
Staff Sergeant Winford J. Poore (1921–1944)
A telephone lineman from Middletown who lost his life in the infamous Exercise Tiger disaster leading up to D-Day
Corporal Elmer F. Park (1919–1944)
A member of the 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion killed in action during the breakout from Anzio
Staff Sergeant Frank Dixon (1917–1944)
An N.C.O. in the 894th Tank Destroyer killed in action soon after arriving at the Anzio beachhead
Delaware's World War II Fallen 