World War II summary: The carnage of World War II was unprecedented and brought the world closest to the term “total warfare.” On average 27,000 people were killed each day between September 1, 1939, until the formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. Western technological advances had turned upon itself, bringing about the most destructive war in human history. The primary combatants were the Axis nations of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, and the Allied nations, Great Britain (and its Commonwealth nations), the Soviet Union, and the United States. Seven days after the suicide of Adolf Hitler, Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. The Japanese would go on to fight for nearly four more months until their surrender on September 2, which was brought on by the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese towns of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
~ historynet.com

World War II
Gold Stars

The following Jay County soldiers lost their lives during World War II
Acronyms: KIA = killed in action; DOW = died of wounds; DNB = death, non-battle; FOD = foreign object damage
Please check the cemetery listing for more information which may include spouse, marriage date, parents, etc

Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Service	Cemetery
Beason, Kenneth R	7/29/1911	8/21/1944	WW II Sgt 119th Inf 30th Div KIA	Hillcrest
Borton, Derious F Jr		1/29/1945	PFC DNB US Army USS Serpens - KIA Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands	Arlington N'nal Cem
Bradley, James W, Pvt	6/12/1920	2/9/1945	WW II 22nd Inf 4th Inf Div - KIA	Twin Hill
Brosher, Amos Verne	5/17/1912	8/3/1942	WW II Pvt Sig Corps IN; died in CA	Little Salamonia
Brunson, Clyde P		4/2/1944	1st Lt KIA	Lorraine, France
Bryan, Melville Ardiene	9/3/1921	9/11/1943	Navy Reserve S1 MIA USS Rowan hit by German torpedo	Green Park
Bubp, Herbert K	4/4/1921	9/28/1943	Navy Machinist Mate "buried at sea"	Green Park
Carder, John Wesley	8/10/1909	7/17/1944	PFC Co K 134th Inf Reg 35th Div KIA France	Hillcrest
Curts, William J			Cpl KIA
Dailey, Herbert M	1/9/1916	6/6/1944	Pvt US Army 112th Engineer Combat Batt KIA	Basse-Nomandie
Denton, John F	7/15/1915	11/20/1944	Sgt 62nd Inf - KIA	Dunkirk IOOF
Deringer, Chester O	9/19/1922	2/17/1945	S/Sgt Co A, 2nd Inf Reg, 5h Inf Div - KIA	Green Park
Farling, Harden D	2/9/1922	7/27/1944	Sgt 331st Inf IN - KIA	Elm Grove in Wells
Faught, Robert O	1925	1944	WW II 30th Division - KIA Anzio, Italy	Gravel Hill
Foltz, Gerald Wayne	1/9/1926	1/4/1945	Pvt 573RD Airborne Infty KIA Belgium	Little Salamonia
Franks, Orville Leon	1921	1944	PFC KIA	Maple Lawn
Garringer, James H	1/19/1921	4/16/1942	WW II Pvt 106th Inf 27th Div KIA Hawaii	Bluff Point
Gaunt, Frank	1/31/1919	9/1/1944	1st Lt 83rd RCN BN 3 ARMD Div - DOW	Lorraine, France
Glendening, Evert Markus	3/26/1897	8/5/1943	WW II IN Co G 4th Dep Batt Signal Corp Cem Naval Reserves	Gravel Hill
Grafmiller, Richard Lucian	1/22/1918	8/4/1943	Cpl US Army Air Force MIA over North Africa	Tunis, Tunisia
Haines, Raymond Otto	9/16/1915	10/24/1944		Little Salamonia
Hare, Robert Charles	9/23/1921	7/16/1944	S/Sgt KIA France	Basse-Nomandie
Hatch, Harry C Jr	1921	1945	S/Sgt DNB	Dunkirk IOOF
Hathaway, Charle L Pvt	1916	8/3/1944	Pvt KIA in France	Green Park
Hildreth, William E	12/24/1918	2/27/1943	Aviation Cadet US Army Air Forces died in service	Green Park
Hummer, Glenn Jr		11/12/1944	PFC	Lorraine, France
Hunt, Dorwin G	1917	1945	WW II Corp KIA Mindanao, P I	Maple Lawn
Imel, Harold Everett	4/20/1920	6/3/1943	WW II AVN US Air Force	Salamonia
Jackson, Raymond W	4/1/1924	6/30/1943	Pvt Co B Armored Reg 8th Div	Twin Hill
Jones, Charles R	8/1/1917	6/19/1944	Pvt US Army KIA	New Albany N'nal, IN
Keller, Dorwin M	4/14/1920	8/4/1945	WW II 2nd Lt US Army Air Force died in service	Gravel Hill
Landauer, Lewis Carl	7/6/1921	6/15/1944	WW II Sgt 20th Army Air Force MIA over Himalayas	Hillcrest
Landess, Leo Wilson	12/3/1924	5/8/1945	WW II Pfc US Army Co I 145th Inf KIA	Hillcrest
Ludy, Milo William	4/4/1922	6/6/1944	WW II Pfc Co G 501st Parachute Inf - KIA	Antioch
Mann, Forrest Frederick	8/20/1910	7/18/1945	WW II IN 473rd Inf KIA Italy	Gravel Hill
Matchett, Wayne Myron, 1st Lt	11/30/1916	11/2/1944	WW II CML Warfare Service - KIA Germany	Salamonia
May, Paul E	10/15/1924	4/14/1945	Sgt KIA	Green Park
McFadden, Robert E	4/21/1924	4/18/1945	PFC died of wounds suffered on Luzon, P. I.	Green Park
McLaughlin, Richard	1924	7/27/1944	WW II KIA	Green Park
Minch, Ernest O	3/22/1921	2/18/1945	WW II Sgt KIA; buried in Belgium	Holy Trinity
Myers, Max	12/8/1921	10/7/1944	Pvt 508th Parachute Inf PH, BS - KIA	Green Park
Neil, George J	1921	1944	WW II KIA Normandy	Green Park
Newton, Fred, Jr	2/19/1922	1/27/1945	Pvt 7th Army Inf - KIA France	Salamonia
Nichols, Ralph W	1925	1945	PFC Co B 160 Ing C BN - KIA Luxembourg	Wells
Nixon, Chauncey M			TEC5 KIA
Norris, Ernest Arthur	2/3/1923	1/3/1945	WW II 2 Lt US Army Air Force died in service	Green Park
Norton, Merle H	1921	4/21/1945	WW II PFC - KIA in Germany	Twin Hill
Priest, Hubert A	2/24/1926	2/3/1945	Pvt 1st Inf Div KIA near Acton Germany	Hillside
Ramsey, Henry Jacob	10/21/1912	10/19/1944	PFC 350th Inf 88 Div KIA	Green Park
Ray, Lester C	10/8/1924	8/4/1944	WW II Pvt 134 INF 35 Int Div - KIA France	Gravel Hill
Runyon, Daniel C "Moon"	1917	5/16/1945	PFC38th Inf Div 152 Med Det KIA Luzon, P I	Blackford County
Shauver, Melvin Jr		3/18/1945	PFC 26th Inf 1st Div KIA	Limburg, Netherlands
Shepherd, William Frederick	9/10/1919	4/19/1945	WW II T/Sgt Inf KIA Germany	Gravel Hill
Slack, Charles Sgt	5/25/1923	7/15/1944	WW II Sgt Co L 116th Inf KIA Normandy	Gravel Hill
Smiley, Donald Howard PFC	1/19/1924	2/19/1944	WW II Pfc 143rd Inf - KIA Italy	Hillcrest
Smith, Loren E	9/21/1922	4/8/1945	WW II IN Tec 5 3 Cav Rcn Trp 3 Div - KIA	Little Salamonia
Stanton, Edwin E			Pvt KIA
Strait, Ora E		7/31/1944	PFC 120 Inf 30 Div KIA	Basse-Nomandie
Swank, Robert W	8/11/1925	6/10/1945	WW II IN Pvt 358 Inf 90 Div KIA	Gravel Hill
Teeters, John David Jr	5/14/1922	3/23/1945	WW II PFC US Army KIA Germany	Green Park
Theurer, George F	6/26/1919	5/12/1943	TEC5 - DNB	Salamonia
Trumbo, William Adrian	1/17/1921	1/15/1945	PFC 329th Inf 83 Div KIA Liege, Belgium	Liege, Belgium
Walmer, Paul Allen	1925	4/5/1945	Sgt 774 Bomb Sq shot down over Italy KIA	Toscana, Italy
Weaver, John F H, Major	4/9/1894	10/4/1942	provost marshall, Camp Campbell, KY; died of pneumonia	Green Park
Whiteman, Roy L		7/5/1944	PFC 329 Inf 83 Div KIA	Basse-Nomandie
Yaeger, George A	2/16/1923	12/25/1944	WW II IN PFC 264 Inf 66 Div KIA	Salamonia
Yentes, Herbert Eugene	1915	1944	Pvt DNB	Huntington Co, IN

posted 9/4/2017; updated 1/25/2018

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