Born 15 Sep 1920 in Concord, New Hampshire 2nd Lt Earle signed the draft in Corvallis while studying at Oregon State College, he enlisted out of Phoenix, Arizona on 15 Oct 1942. While Serving with the 903rd Field Artillery BN, 78th Division, he was killed 7 Apr 1945 in Germany. 2nd Lt Frederick Earle was survived by his wife, mother a step father and a step brother.
1st Lt. Dutton served in the Army Air Force 12th fighter squadron, 18th group in the south pacific. Lt. Dutton died when is plane crashed operating in somewhere in the south pacific on February 8th, 1944.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx719t22q#page/8/mode/1up (pg. 8)
Maj. Dungam joined the California National Guard before being called into active service with the rank of captain serving as an instructor at camp Roberts. He was promoted to Major, and was transferred to the paratroopers and received the Purple Heart. He died trying to bring reinforcements to his surrounded regimental headquarters and earned the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
The Book “Our Salvation: 504th Parachute Infantry Division, Legendary Fight at Altavilla by Tyler Fox is dedicated to the memory of Don Dunham.
"On 16 January 1942, then-First Lieutenant John Louis Dufrane, Jr. was serving as a Pilot of a B-17E Flying Fortress bomber with the 9th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 10th Air Force in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. On that day, 1LT Dufrane's unit was in action against Japanese forces while participating in a bombing mission over Java. 1LT Dufrane's courageous actions and extraordinary heroism that day earned him the U.S. Army's second highest award for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross.
Lt. Drake served on the USS Kete (SS-369) during WWII. The Kete was lost and never found between 29-38N 130-02E and Midway.
"Conditions attendant to KETE's loss suggest the likehood that one of these submarines might have torpedoed and sunk her and been unable to report the attack before being sunk."
"2nd Lt. Doblie was killed in a crash landing on the island of Vis, while returning from a combat mission to Linz Austria. He was Bombardier in a B-24 Squadron based in Italy."
Oregonian 2/10/1945
Pvt. Dobell became a prisoner of the Japanese Army while fighting in the Philippines, 1942. "The Japanese ship "Shinyo Maru" was loaded with 750 U.S. POW's in the cargo holds. The U.S.S. Paddle (SS-263), not knowing that American POW's were on board, fired torpedoes at the ship off the coast of Mindanao and sank it. Some Japanese guards shot prisoners as they struggled from the holds after the attack or were in the water." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56787791
Capt. Disbrow was killed in action commanding a division of American troops in France on June 11th, 1944.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx719t25j#page/16/mode/1up (pg 16)
2nd Lt. Dirickson died while in flight school located in Flordia. During a training exercise Lt. Dirickson's bomber crashed near Venice Flordia resulting in his death on March 24th, 1943.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx71bk860#page/8/mode/1up/search/dirickson (pg 6)
