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
Category: Delaware
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
Sergeant Joseph M. Lentini (1914–1945)
A member of the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment killed during an assault in the Apennines late in the war
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
Private 1st Class Roland P. Jackson (1914–1945)
A high school physical education teacher who lost his life on his third day of combat during one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific
Auxiliary Alice L. Brittingham (1919–1943)
A W.A.A.C. who died of disease shortly after beginning her training
2nd Lieutenant Harold N. Sheaffer (1920–1944)
A B-17 navigator killed in action during the Allied aerial offensive known as Big Week
2nd Lieutenant George M. Johnson (1920–1944)
A pilot from Seaford who will soon return home, at long last, over 77 years after his death at the Tarawa Atoll
Commander Louis A. Drexler, Jr. (1899–1945)
The Drexler family lost two sons serving in the U.S. Navy: one in an accident before World War II and the other during the Battle of Okinawa
Sergeant Harry M. Hinkson, Jr. (1923–1944)
A clerk for the DuPont Company turned U.S. Army Air Forces gunner who was killed in action during a raid on Germany
Delaware's World War II Fallen 