A career soldier, rifle squad leader, and father who fought in five campaigns in the Mediterranean
Category: Italy
Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Thomas C. Davis (1921–1943)
A member of a U.S. Navy Armed Guard crew lost in the infamous air raid on Bari, Italy
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
Private 1st Class Frank J. Cox (1923–1943)
The first of three men from Hazeldel Avenue in Minquadale to lose his life during WWII
Private Raymond W. Pierson (1922–1944)
A DuPont employee turned rifleman who went into combat for the first time during the Battle of Monte Cassino
Private 1st Class Lynn E. Ritter, Jr. (1924–1944)
Three Delawareans who were drafted on the same day trained together and joined the same medical battalion but only two returned home alive
2nd Lieutenant William B. Weldon, Jr. (1916–1944)
Wounded and captured before he was rescued during combat at the Gustav Line in Italy, this young officer returned to duty just in time to join the breakout from Anzio
Sergeant Steiner S. Straw, Jr. (1920–1943)
An Army Air Forces armorer killed in a tragic accident at an airfield in Sardinia
Technician 5th Grade Clayton Jones (1917–1944)
A plumber/pipefitter turned Army Air Forces firefighter caught up in a tragic accident at an airfield in Italy
Technician 5th Grade Dominick La Monica (1907–1944)
A pharmacist from New York fatally injured in an accident shortly before he was to return home
Delaware's World War II Fallen 