One month before his death, a schoolteacher turned mess sergeant sat for a portrait still cherished by the son he never got to meet

One month before his death, a schoolteacher turned mess sergeant sat for a portrait still cherished by the son he never got to meet
A black soldier in an airbase security battalion who served in the southwest Pacific
A father, mechanic, and volunteer fireman who entered combat in Normandy as a replacement rifleman
A sailor from Sussex County, Delaware, killed in an infamous sinking in the closing days of the Pacific War
A pilot from Seaford who will soon return home, at long last, over 77 years after his death at the Tarawa Atoll