An 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion platoon leader killed in action alongside a Medal of Honor recipient during the breakout from Anzio
Category: Pennsylvania
Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class William A. Funk (1922–1944)
An aviation machinist’s mate aboard a TBM-1C Avenger involved in a stateside training accident
Sergeant Amedeo J. Vincenti (1909–1945)
A flight engineer who lost his life when his plane ditched returning from an antishipping strike
Flight Officer Theodore E. Hearne (1920–1944)
The proudest moment of this radar observer’s military career turned to tragedy moments later
Private Norman G. Becker (1923–1944)
A shipyard worker turned infantryman who was killed in action during his fourth day in combat in northern Italy
Staff Sergeant William T. Stewart, III (1917–1943)
A young father who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor
2nd Lieutenant Charles A. Higgins, Jr. (1922–1945)
A young officer who dropped out Yale to volunteer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps
Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Sidney L. Galbraith (1902–1944)
A machinist who served in the U.S. Army as a teenager during World War I and then volunteered for the Seabees during World War II
2nd Lieutenant William J. McLoughry (1919–1942)
A C-47 copilot who survived the dangerous first American airborne combat mission only to die in a crash weeks later
Private 1st Class Robert A. Wescoat (1910–1944)
A crew member aboard a U.S. Army tugboat lost after an unlucky navigational error during a journey between England and France
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