A soldier born in Bridgeville who served in Italy in a segregated infantry unit

A soldier born in Bridgeville who served in Italy in a segregated infantry unit
A railroader conductor who rapidly advanced to rifle squad leader during combat in the closing months of the war in Europe
An infantryman who fell while liberating Kautenbach, Luxembourg
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
A sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor and by some definitions, the first Delawarean killed in action during World War II
A sailor from Sussex County, Delaware, killed in an infamous sinking in the closing days of the Pacific War
A W.A.A.C. who died of disease shortly after beginning her training
A pilot from Seaford who will soon return home, at long last, over 77 years after his death at the Tarawa Atoll
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
The first serviceman from Newark to die during World War II