SMETHPORT

 
KILLED IN ACTION
 


Flight Officer
John C. Bailey

487th Bomber Group, Heavy

Declared Deceased
Non-Battle: July 4, 1946


First Lieutenant
Winfield F. Brungard

502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division

Killed in Action: September 18, 1944
Operation Market Garden

Buried
Plot B, Row 5, Grave 27
Netherlands American Cemetery

Brungard participated in the Normandy Invasion as jumpmaster on the 8th aircraft over France.

PVT Paul Connor

38th Cavalry Reconn Squadron

Died of Wounds: August 2, 1944
France

Buried
Plot H, Row 12, Grave 14
Normandy American Cemetery
France


Sergeant
Leo M. Connors


814th Engineer Aviation Battalion

Died Non-Battle: May 26, 1943
North Africa

Repatriated: June 16, 1949
Buried: Smethport

 


PVT
Carl Robert Erickson

120th Field Artillery Battalion,
32nd Infantry Division

Died of Illness: June 14, 1945
Luzon, Philippines

Buried
Plot D, Row 6, Grave 69
Manila American Cemetery
Manila, Philippines



PFC Robert E. Feura

Field Artillery, U.S. Army

Died of Wounds: April 7, 1945
Okinawa

Repatriated: February 14, 1949
Buried: St. Bernards Cemetery

PFC Angelo J. Isidori

Company E, 27th Infantry Regiment,
25th Infantry Division

Died of Wounds: March 15, 1945
Luzon, Philippines

Repatriated: February 10, 1949
Buried: Smethport



CPL George H. Jones

596th Airborne Engineer Company,
517th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Killed in Action: January 5, 1945
Belgium

Buried
Plot F, Row 10, Grave 32
Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery
Belgium


Staff Sergeant
George D. Keefer


Declared Deceased
Non-Battle: July 4, 1946

 

PFC Lloyd D. Kellar

Declared Deceased
Non-Battle: July 4, 1946


PFC
George P. McDermott

Company A,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division

Died of Wounds: July 28, 1944
France

Repatriated: April 22, 1949
Buried: St. Elizabeth Cemetery


Staff Sergeant
Ralph A. McKendrick

387th Bomber Squadron,
312th Bomber Group, Heavy

Killed in Action: April 5, 1944
Over New Guinea

Repatriated: December 2, 1969
Buried
Section 81, Site 349
Jefferson Barracks
National Cemetery
St. Louis, MO


Sergeant Carl A. Nelson, Jr.

108th Infantry Regiment,
40th Infantry Division

Missing in Action:
February 23, 1945

Luzon, Philippines

Tablets of Missing
Manila American Cemetery
Manila, Philippines

First Lieutenant
Kermit R. Peasley

88th Squadron,
22nd Transport Group

Killed in Action:
September 22, 1943

Calcutta, India

Buried
Honolulu Memorial
Honolulu, Hawaii

Lieutenant Peasley was the pilot of a transport plane that crashed killing fourteen officers and enlisted men.


Aviation Cadet
Bennett F. Penn

San Angelo Army Air Field, TX

Died: December 5, 1942
Bombardier training flight

Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery



First Lieutenant
George B. Schoonmaker

1252nd Air Base Unit

Died: November 8, 1945
Plane Crash
Gitzenbergen, Germany

Buried
Plot N, Row 4, Grave 14
Netherlands American Cemetery

PVT
Lewis Alvin Starsky

Service Company,
115th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division

Died of Illness: December 23, 1943
Fort Devens, MA

Buried
Beth Israel Cemetery, Bradford



Staff Sergeant
William G. Yanish

3rd Infantry Division

Killed in Action:
September 15, 1944

France

Repatriated: December 28, 1948
Buried: St. Callistus Cemetery, Kane


 
Nurses
 
Margaret Dickinson
Helen Edith Karlen
Ruth Oberg
Margaret Lauer
Mary Frances Dibler
 
Cadet Nurses
 
Joanne Bouton
Harriett F. Herriman
Carolyn Lindholm
Donna Jean Nelson
Betty Oviatt
Charlotte R. Peterson
Virginia Vickers
Veda Ann Stemberger
Emogene Irons
Jane Stickles
Margaret Anderson
Jean McAnallen
Marion Hackett
Lola N. Hibbard
Jean Wright
 
WAC
 
Regina Anderson
Letty M. Clark
Helen Hull
Jean Hull
Louise Hull
Ruth M. Marsh
Marguerite Parker
Jennie Sambroia
Theda Mae Swatsler
Rose Rossi Clark
Anna Benson
 
MARINES
 
Pearl Smith Rupert
Janet Herzog
 
SPARS
 
Gertrude Carlson
Ruth Sweeley
 
WAVES
 
Janice Kohn
Betty Lou Lorah
Betty Kearns
Naomi Hibbard
Joan Morrison
Susanna Speer

William Chester Daniels
Wounded in Action: North Africa
Milton Leroy Dodge
Wounded in Action: France
Glenn Mencer, Jr.
Wounded in Action: France
Robert Sweeley
Wounded in Action: France
Richard Chase
Wounded in Action: Germany
William Burdick
Wounded in Action: Germany
John Joseph Pollock
Wounded in Action: Italy
Conrad F. Michielson, Jr.
Wounded in Action: Italy
Joseph Anthony Santo
Wounded in Action: Italy
William J. Gustafson
Wounded in Action: Philippines
Charles E. Carpenter
Wounded in Action: Belgium
John Swanson
Wounded in Action: Belgium
Phillip Stravino
Wounded in Action: Belgium
Robert Minerd
Wounded in Action: Atlantic
 


Flight Officer
William L. ‘Bugs’ Barton
Prisoner of War: Germany
First declared killed in action when his bomber exploded from an enemy flak hit, but he parachuted safely over Germany on August 8, 1944 and then taken prisoner. Liberated by Russians May 1, 1945.
Michael D. Connors
Prisoner of War: Germany
Lloyd Huth
Prisoner of War: Japan
Held in the Philippines
Private Charles Edward Ness
Missing in action:
Anzio, Italy on January 30, 1944.
Prisoner of War: Germany
Sergeant Orville C. Smith, Jr.
Prisoner of War: Germany
 

William Shrack Abrams
Carl Anderson
Carl Allen Anderson
Oscar M. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson
Willard Anderson
Robert E. Almony
John J. Apple
Robert E. Apple
J. Pierre Allison
Donald George Abbey
Harry Robert Abplanalp
Edward Baker
Cleo Marshall Baker
Harry L. Backus
James M. Barr
John Putnam Bayer
Everett Merle Bean
George Beatty
Charles J. Berg
Mortimer E. Bell
Carle Lewis Bermender
Norman Wallace Bermender
Joseph Bernard
Vincent Bizzaro
Joseph Bizzaro
John F. Boswick
Ernest Henry Botsford, Jr.
Adrian P. Boudon
Robert W. Brenneman
Walter Bright
William Earl Brittain
George Edward Brown
Martin William Brungard
Maurice Burdick
William O. Burdick
James Wilmer Burford
William Holder Bush
Andrew Charles Bucheit
Fred Burlingame, Jr.
Holger Carlson
Philip Carlson
Robert Erwin Carpenter
Kenneth B. Chase
Lester Joseph Clark, Jr.
William Berg Cleveland
Alpha W. Colegrove
Carl R. Coldren
David Collier
William Comes
Gerald Jerome Connors
James Eugene Connors
John Emerson Connors
Michael D. Connors
Paul Connors
Robert L. Dahlgren
Oscar William David
Filmore Merrill Dennis
Frank Edmund Digel
John Henry Digel
Raymond Dickerson
LeRoy Milton Denning
Melvin Clarence Dodge
Elmer Dodge, Jr.
Ray Orlando Duel
Richard Dragoone
Arthur Eaton
George B. Eley, Jr.
Donald Elias
Paul Laverne Elias
Everett W. Engstrom
Holger A. Engstrom
Merrell Harold Engstrom
Melvin Gustaf Engstrom
Ernest O. Erickson
Joseph Ferraino
Ivan R. Fields
Ernest Feura
Robert E. Feura
Lane William Fizzell
Harry Clair Fleeger, Jr.
Francis Joseph Foley
James V. Foley
Charles H. Freer
Gordon Freer
Richard L. Freer
Hugh Corl Fry
Edward Garlick
Harold L. German
John D. Gifford
Thomas L. Gillen
Neil Arden Gleason
Ned Gleason
Clair Edgar Griffin
Leon Griffin
Paul Anthony Griffin
Roy M. Griffin
James Grossman
Robert Howard Green
John Paul Hallstrom
Floyd Joseph Harvey
David Hawke
Paul Charles Hergenrother
Frederick Virgil Herriman
James Herriman
James R. Herzog
Leo Lawrence Herzog, Jr.
Robert Hamilton Hewitt
Andrew Hileman
Ralph E. Hockenberry
Bernard Roland Huffman
Leonard Riley Huffman
John Joseph Hungerford
Harvey Blaine Hausman
Harry Lapolt Heilman
James Cooper Huffman
Harry S. Hull, Jr.
James Hull
Joseph Raymond Hull
Robert Johnson Hull
John G. Irons
Milford E. Irons
Charles Irons
Obed Llewelyan Ingram
Carl A. Johnson
Hanford Robert Johnson
Herbert A. Johnson
Kenneth Eugene Johnson
Roy B. Johnson
Maynard Roscoe Johnson
Russell E. Johnson
Gilbert L. Johnson
Ronald Kear
Emery Leslie Kohn
Carleton Kohn
Ralph A. Kohn
Robert Kohn
Robert Allison Kerr
Raphael Keesler III
LeRoy Keesler
Ray Edward King
Victor LeRoy Lantz
Herbert Carlton Larson
Clyde Morris Lawton
Marvin M. Lindell, Jr.
Alvie Russell Livermore, III
Carl Raymond Lloyd
William C. Long
Jack Farrell Lorah
Richard A. Ludwig
Raymond James Lynch
John Volney McAlpin, Jr.
William McCauley
Robert Daniel McCauley
Orlo Guy McCoy
James G. McDermott
Alex McKay
James J. McMahon
Samuel W. McMillen
Victor L. Mayer
John Scott Maze
Lonnie L. Miller
Carl R. Miller
John Miller
Ernest Alfred Milroy
R. Penn Minerd
Joe Moore
Leonard D. Moore
William Murray
Albert Marasco
Barney McCoy Markham
Andrew W. Mook
John Neil
Raymond Ness
Robert Brittain Ness
Jack Brittain Ness
Claude Arthur Newhouse
John Warren Newhouse
Forrest Jerome Newman
Philip E. Newman
Thomas E. Nichols
Harold Norman
John T. Orlandi
Mark Orlandi
Gerald L. O'Hara
Bernard O'Laughlin
LeRoy A. O'Laughlin
Walter Carlton Olson
James L. Owens
George Bayer Penn
William Donald Peterson
William O. Peterson
Raymond Petruzzi
Harry Martin Pickard
Gilbert L. Pilskaln
Harold Walter Provin
Ralph Wally Provin
Ernest Gurdon Potter
Gurdon G. Potter
Frank Dickson Potter
William Potter
John Powers
Robert Quirk
Clyde Raymond
Gerarld Frederick Rice
Kenneth Raymond
Richard Raymond
Hamlin Delano Redfield
Robert Horace Redfield
Roland C. Reynolds
Walter J. Rinehart
Richard Rice
Herman R. Rice
John C. Richards
Nelson Arthur Rossman
Robert Wesley Rounsville
Richard Rounsville
Willard R. Rounsville, Jr.
Maurice Roseboom
Richard D. Richner
Claude M. Rittberg
Richard R. Safstrom
Lyle Russell Safford
James C. Sample
Thomas E. Sample
Harry Schmidt
George B. Schoonmaker
Howard P. Schoonmaker
Jack Schrieber
William T. Schreiber
Thomas LaVerne Scott
Fred Seitler
George Barbour Sharro
Thomas J. Sheldon
John Sinclair
Robert Murry Smith
Frederick Smith
Enos Abbey Southwick
Philip Speer
Robert Earl Speer
Israel Starsky
Richard Carl Stevens
Robert Merle Stevens
Robert M. Stickles
James Stravino
John William Sullivan
Norman Howard Schroth
John Charles Stevenson
Myron Tessini
Billy Eugene Thomas
Donald Thomas
Donald F. Tanner
George VanDusen
Donald Vossier
Harold Charles Warien
Harold Edward Warren
Charles Wells
William Robert Whelan
Clenn A. Williams
Joseph P. Wilson
Joseph Miles Wirt
LaVerne Howe Wirt
Edward Bowman Wolfe
James G. Wolfe
Stanley Ross Wolfe
Robert Lee Wolfe