Tracey J. Caldwell
Cyclone

Civilian Contractor
Cavite Navy Yard
Philippines

Drowned at Sea
October 24, 1944

When the Japanese prisoner of war ship Arisan Maru was sunk accidentally by the American submarine USS Shark in the Sea of China, east of Hong Kong. He was one of ten civilian Navy employees captured and interred in the Philippines. Over 1,800 American prisoners of war, plus some Dutch and British, were on board the ship when it was sunk and 1,793 drowned. It was the largest loss of American military lives in a single disaster at sea.

Jerome J. Morgan
Cyclone

USMC
Killed in Action:
September 28, 1944

Buried: Plot N, Row 15, Grave 61
Manila American Cemetery,
Manila, Philippines

Fought at Guadalcanal
and New Guinea.

Paul L. Rader
Cyclone

786th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Killed in Action: April 5, 1945
Germany

Buried:
McKean Memorial Park,
Lafayette Twp.
Repatriated: December 7, 1948

Friend E. Shonts
Cyclone

Company B,
702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Died of Wounds:
November 23, 1944 in Germany

Buried:
McKean Memorial Park,
Lafayette Twp
Repatriated: August 18, 1948

Shonts was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for gallantry in action on October 4, 1944 in Germany. A gunner on a M-10 tank destroyer, Shonts was ordered into action against an approaching German panzer in the streets of a German town before them. The enemy tank, which had not been accurately located, had already repelled two attacks by American tanks. Knowing that their tank would be destroyed if they could not detect and destroy the enemy tank within a few seconds after entering the streets, PFC Shonts and the rest of the crew unhesitatingly advanced forward. The enemy tank opened fire at close range but missed with the first round. Shonts’ tank destroyer remained in place and fired twice in rapid succession. Almost immediately their M-10 was hit twice and burst into flames. Two of the crew were killed instantly and the remaining three were injured.

George E. Thompson, Jr.
Cyclone

700th Bomber Squadron,
445th Bomber Group, Heavy

Killed in Action:
November 29, 1944
over Germany

Ned R. Francis
Gifford

Company L,
60th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division

Killed in Action: April 8, 1943
North Africa

Buried:
McKean Memorial Park,
Lafayette Twp.
Repatriated: June 1, 1948

Harry L. Stokes
Gifford

323rd Bomber Squadron,
91st Bomber Group, Heavy

Missing in Action:
September 27, 1943
over Emden, Germany

Tablets of the Missing at
Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands

Was on board the B-17
“Rebel’s Revenge”

Lee B. MacDonald
Rew

1328th Base Unit,
U.S. Army Air Force

Died of Illness:
December 30, 1945
Halleron General Hospital,
Staten Island, NY

Buried:
McKean Memorial Park,
Lafayette Twp

Clifford E. Johnson
Wounded in Action: North Africa

Bernard Cornelius
Wounded in Action: France

Roy A. Shannon
Wounded in Action: Belgium

Thomas H. Brown
Gifford

P-47 Thunderbolt pilot
Prisoner of War:
December 14, 1944
Germany

Lucien P. Lawson
Rew

B-17 Radio Operator

Prisoner of War:
October 15, 1944
Germany

James Schraeder
Salamanca, NY
was tailgunner on same B-17

Guy A. Sambroia
Cyclone

Armored Infantry Battalion

Prisoner of War:
December 22, 1944
Germany

Earl P. Argue

Richard E. Brandes

Wilbur C. Barber

Clarence L. Burt

Clarence F. Bright

Floyd S. Boylan

Isaac W. Bundy

George D. Cole

George Cotton

Donald Clark

Robert G. Clark

Lelon E. Dailey

Earl C. Dreihaup

Frederick E. Eddy

Ivan Frick

Byron A. Francis

William R. Francis

Edward D. Fox

Clifford N. Frick

William Gault

Ira G. Geer

John W. Covert

Walter M. Graves

William R. Gross

Chester A. Hanold

Merle R. Hays

Robert E. Hays

Ralph B. Hall

LeRoy H. Hendrickson

Kenneth W. Hogue

Bruce Hinchman

Neil R. Hinchman

Lynton M. Irons

Alton N. Johnson

Kenneth M. Johnson

Paul E. Kenneson

Eugene D. Kightlinger

John R. Maynard

Francis R. Maynard

Willis L. Maynard

George C. Monjar

Robert D. Newman

Bernard C. Nick

Eugene A. Nick

Keith M. Niver

Ward R. Niver

Grover S. Neely

Jack L. Neely

LeRoy Neely

Darrel Osborne

Merrill M. Osgood

Harold H. Ostrander

Glendon B. Ostrander

Fay T. Ostrander

Howard M. Ostrander

Gerald Ostrander

Donald L. Roberts

Jack F. Roberts

Abby C. Russell

Guy A. Sambroia

James H. Schneller

Morris F. Schneller

Roy A. Shannon

Robert C. Skaggs

Stephen J. Stilson

Burrell J. Sprague, Jr.

Frank D. Sprague

Daniel O. Thomas

Joseph A. Thomas

Elmer G. Van Orman

John S. Vavalo

John M. Weary

Rexford A. Weed

Robert L. Willoughby

Delmar L. Work

Paul G. Ward

John R. Young

Lloyd G. Yoxtheimer

Russell S. Yoxtheimer