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
Category: Delaware
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 William J. Harden (1921–1944)
A young graduate of Salesianum High School and the University of Delaware who became an Army Air Forces bombardier
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
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
Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Ralph R. Skillman (1925–1944)
A sailor from Newark, Delaware, who was one of the first kamikaze victims
1st Lieutenant Thomas O. Hudson (1918–1944)
A Dupont employee turned artillery forward observer who died of wounds during the Battle of the Bulge
Staff Sergeant Clarence O. Deakyne, Jr. (1917–1944)
An N.C.O. in the 33rd Chemical Decontamination Company, a victim of the infamous Exercise Tiger disaster shortly before D-Day in Normandy
Delaware's World War II Fallen 