A B-24 gunner in the ill-fated 492nd Bomb Group killed during a costly raid on Germany
Category: European Theater
Private Joseph D. Johnson (1924–1944)
A store clerk from the Georgetown area who became an infantryman after the Army Specialized Training Program was terminated
Technician 5th Grade Steven Oboryshko (c. 1920–1944)
A Ranger from Wilmington killed in action in Normandy on D+1
Staff Sergeant George C. Curdy (1920–1945)
A railroader conductor who rapidly advanced to rifle squad leader during combat in the closing months of the war in Europe
Technician 5th Grade Robert Stafford (c. 1908–1944)
A Georgian in a engineer unit, the victim of a heinous, racially motivated murder in England
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
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
Private Clifford L. Hook (1915–1944)
A millwright turned antitank gun crewman killed in action while liberating France
Private Robert L. Gamble (1915–1944)
An infantryman who was mortally wounded during the Normandy campaign
