ENS Stephen Harris Jones

Paul Camullis Goldsborough, Jr    KIA USS Blessman (DE-69/APD-48) Battle of Iwo Jima - 18 Feb 1945 . Buried at sea. Age 19

Tommy Shadrick KIA

Francis Leo "Winkie" Downs    82nd Airborne Killed in Action Waal River Crossing 20 Sept 1944

Crosby Wyche, Charlotte Hall 2nd Lt USAAF  4th Photographic Squadron 1st Mapping Group. MIA 
    

PFC Joseph Edward Young Killed in the line of duty Age 27

Pvt William Walter Bush Son of Francis "Frank" Benjamin Bush & Rebecca "Bessie" Brown Died 3 Dec 1943 Age 21

Pvt Harry Wilson Conner. Mechanicsville. 51st INF BN, 4th ARMD DIV. Died at Bastogne of artillery wounds 2 Jan 1945. Age 26

PFC Leo Joseph Bohanan - married father of 2 sons KIA 19 Mar 1945 in 26 Infantry's drive to the Rhine River

PFC James Thomas Greenwell, Jr Died of wounds 12 Nov 1944 a POW under German control.

2 Lt John Shellman Baer Left college to enlist. Killed in Action 24 Sept 1944 leading his Inf unit against German Gothic Line. Age 23

Sgt Thomas Emanuel St. Clair , Clements. Son of 169th Infantry, 43rd Division. Wounded in thigh Aug 1943 returned to duty Sep 1943. KIA 6 March 1943. Age 23

2 Lt Walter W. McCown 9 Aug 1944 KIA aboard B-24 Liberator 'Big Wheeler Dealer" over Hungary

USN CEM Albert Eugene Hayden "Rouch". First Maryland casualty of WW2 aboard USS Oklahoma Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941.  His service spanned two World Wars.

Sylvester Vincent Brown Killed in line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch Disaster. Pvt Brown’s body was returned to his widowed mother Cora Brown of Ridge by Army hearse from Philadelphia escorted by a sergeant guard of honor till burial in St Peter Claver Catholic Cemetery, St Inigoes, 30 Oct 1947. First deceased soldier returned to St. Mary’s County and first colored soldier’s body returned to Maryland

George Monroe Willis, Scotland, MD USMM, MIA aboard S.S. Arlyn 28 Aug 1942 after ship was by torpedoed off coast of Newfoundland by German U-boat

Robert Francis Brown MIA line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch Disaster

TEC5 Albert Eugene Beck. Hollywood. Battle of the Bulge POW died at Stalag 12A Limburg, Germany 8 Mar 1945. Body never recovered. Age 19.

Pvt Philip Dennis Bowles Killed in Action 1 Aug 1943 during heavy fighting for Munda Airfield. Age 23

Sgt John Caleb Dean KIA 15 Apr 1945 after rejecting a furlough in order to stay with his Company. Age 21

PFC John Thomas Abell, "Johnnie". Killed in the Line of Duty NB drowning 10 Jun 1945 Rhine River, Andernach, Germany. Body never recovered. Age 21

Ernest Friess 344th BS, 98th BG, USAAF. Pilot B-24 Liberator "Hey Doc" MIA 11 Nov 1944 Age 22

Sgt William "Billy" Falk Graves USAAF, 63rd BS, 43rd BG, KIA/MIA 28 Jul 1945 B-24 Liberator "Boots". Age 20

Sgt George Carroll Higgs KIA 12 Jan 1945 aboard SS Kyle V Johnson when hit by Japanese kamikaze. Body never recovered Age 35

PFC Odell Orie Poe Son of Leonard and Eva Poe of St. George Island "Killed In Action" 4 Feb 1945 in house-to-house, hand-to-hand fighting in battle of Jebsheim. His name is on the Jebsheim War Memorial honoring the 66 Americans who gave their lives for its liberation

Pvt Howard Leyshon 135th Inf, Co C Enlisted at 17 feeling it was his duty. Killed in Action 6 Jan 1944 Italy Age 18

Cpl David L Markham 31st Inf , Survived Bataan Death March of 65 miles starving, dehydrated, brutalized. Died POW 18 May 1942 Age 20. A member of the Battling Bastards of Bataan

Lives of Consequence

PFC Joseph Albert Mattingly Son of Albert Lee Mattingly and Mary Beatrice Wallace Mattingly; USMC Killed in Action on Iwo Jima 19 Feb 1945 Age 22

S/Sgt George F Wathen 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division KIA Battle of the Bulge Age 37

Capt George Hume Peabody, Jr USAAF MIA 27 Oct 1942 off Gibraltar Age 23. Peabody Street in Leonardtown is named in honor of the family's military contributions

Pvt James Arthur Pilkerton Technician Fifth Grade, 102nd Calvary Recon. Squadron Died of combat wounds. Age 24. Purple Heart.

PFC James Walter Gatton

S/Sgt Thomas Jefferson Owens, Jr Leonardtown. 8th Infantry, 4th Division KIA 31 Aug 1944 Age 19

PVT Thomas I. Sanner 141st INF Killed in Action 16 DEC 1943 Age 19

2 Lt Robert Van Horn Thomas, USAAF. Son of Ms. Lydia M. Thomas Tall Timbers Co-pilot of C-47 "Picadilly Filly," KIA during Operation Market Garden.

McGuire Payne Wathen          Killed in action France     Sept  1944  Age 20

Pvt George S. Young Killed in the line of duty 21 May 1944 West Loch disaster Pearl Harbor Age 27

Cpl William Francis Wheeler USMC Killed in Action 1 Nov 1942 Guadacanal Age 21

Adam Bruce Fahnestock

Xavier Sylvester Ennels

Lawrence Donald Fullmer

Avon J Gant, STM1 USN.

T/5 John Francis Demko - Returned home after the war Died of Wounds at Walter Reed Age 22

PFC Joseph Elsmere Hill KIA 6 Sep 1944 by artillery shell fragments in Belgium advancing toward Germany Age 25

Pvt Francis Pridmore Everhart

Names & Faces of Courage

Pvt James E Quade Chaptico. 315 INF KIA 4 Jul 1944

T5 Willie A. Shubrooks KIA

Pfc Joseph Henry Thompson KIA 6 Jan 1945. Age 21

PFC Harry A "Bunky" Bennett, Leonardtown. KIA Korea 18 Years Old

Pvt James Robert Ellis, Bushwood. KIA Korea 17 Years Old

Pvt John Richard Clarke 34th INF Killed in NB Line of Duty Feb 1944 Age 19

Leonard A Clarke, USMM. Chief Eng unarmed SS Norvana. MIA 19 Jan 1942 torpedoed by German U-boat off coast of North Carolina

PFC Harrison Dominick Owens 82nd Airborne Division
Born June 22, 1926
Died Berlin, Germany
November 20, 1945 Age 19

Sgt Harvey Jackson Seay Eleventh Air Force