1944

First Lieutenant Hampden Wallace Harding, bomber pilot and holder of the Air Medal for more than 300 combat missions, was killed March 13 in fighting over Hainan Strait, China. His plane was witnessed to have been struck by tracers in the cockpit and navigation area by Japanese Zero fighters during a window of time when the bombing mission was without...

Walter S. Polchlopek\'s wife and baby son. His son as a young child. His son as a proud member of the ROTC--but as a sole surviving son of a war loss, he was in fact not eligible for ROTC, and and was eventually removed. ---INCOMPLETE DRAFT--- In progress--- Walter S. Polchlopek, Corporal, was lost on May 20, 1944, over the...

Clarence Anderson on base stateside during military training. Clarence Anderson with family during his period of training. Clarence I. Anderson, Pvc., Service No. 19059691, in the back row in uniform in 1943, in Seattle, WA, with his younger brother and three younger sisters, as well as his mother Ester (far left) and father Ivan (second from the right). Clarence went...