A career lighthouse keeper who enlisted in the Coast Guard at age 50
Tag: Lewes
Technician 5th Grade Harold T. Hitchens (1915–1944)
An armorer in a rifle company who trained for years stateside before entering combat during the Rhineland campaign
Private Samuel A. Matthews, Jr. (1924–1944)
The father of a young child who went into combat as a replacement rifleman at 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
Private 1st Class Gilbert B. Bryan (1925–1945)
A truck driver from Sussex County who lost his life just as the Allies crossed the Rhine in the closing weeks of the war in Europe
Delaware's World War II Fallen 