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: Sussex County
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
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
Auxiliary Alice L. Brittingham (1919–1943)
A W.A.A.C. who died of disease shortly after beginning her training
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
2nd Lieutenant F. Robert Thoroughgood (1910–1942)
The first serviceman from Newark to die during World War II
Private James R. Wilson (1913–1944)
An infantryman killed in action during the grueling Normandy campaign
1st Lieutenant Ferris L. Wharton (1915–1944)
A Marine officer killed in action during his first day in combat, liberating Guam from Japanese occupation
Private 1st Class George C. Beebe (1919–1944)
It took an operation before he going join the U.S. Army, beginning a journey that led him to Omaha Beach
Delaware's World War II Fallen 