An Eighth Air Force copilot who was most of the way through his combat tour when he took off for a night training flight with another crew
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Staff Sergeant Hermus J. Hastings (1923–1944)
His B-24 disappeared near Truk shortly before he would have received the Distinguished Flying Cross
Private Charles M. Brittingham (1923–1945)
An infantryman who fell while liberating Kautenbach, Luxembourg
Private 1st Class John E. Adams, Jr. (1921–1944)
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
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
