Killed in Action

 

John H. Faust (World War II)

John H. Faust

John H. Faust

Class of 1934
Assistant Artillery Officer 15th Army Group

LTC Faust was killed in an air crash when an Army transport plane crashed upon taking off from an Italian airfield

Elliott Durand (World War I)

Elliot Durand

Elliot Durand

Class of 1903
First Lieutenant
24th Aero Squadron
Army Air Corps
American Expeditionary Force

While returning from a mission on September 14, 1918 over enemy lines, Durand and his pilot, Lt J J Goodfellow of San Angelo Texas, were attacked by five German Fokker fighters. Two were downed but the others brought the Americans down.

S. Ellsworth Duff (World War II)

S. Ellsworth Duff

S. Ellsworth Duff

Class of 1938
Army Air Corps

William H. Derr (World War II)

William H. Derr

William H. Derr

Class of 1938
66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division

Robert S. Currier (World War II)

Robert S. Currier

Robert S. Currier

Class of 1942
1st Battalion (Airborne), 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, USAFE

He was Killed In Action at Nijmegen, Holland by a German machine gun as part of Operation Market Garden.

 

 

Robert N. Chinquina (Vietnam)

Robert N. Chinquina

Robert N. Chinquina

Class of 1969
B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry

Chinquina was killed by a land mine in Vietnam.

Douglas T. Cameron (World War I)

First Lieutenant
7th Field Artillery, 1st Division
American Expeditionary Forces

In the fighting west of the Meuse (France) on November 3, 1918, Lieutenant Douglas Tilford Cameron was assigned to an accompanying battery. ‘Here,” writes a correspondent, “he was in his element, and in the desperate fighting that ensued young Cameron’s pieces were boldly serving in the fact of decimating casualties. He met death as an honorable, gallant soldier prefers to die.”

William F. Callahan, Jr. (World War II)

William F. Callahan

William F. Callahan

Class of 1943
85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division

He was killed during an attack in the mountains of northern Italy just days before the end of World War II.

John I. Burns (World War I)

Class of 1912
Marine aviator

Samuel H. Bolton (Civil War)

Samuel H. Bolton
34th Infantry, New Jersey

Died of disease in 1865 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama, while serving with 34th NJ Infantry; he served through the end of the conflict, and died of disease at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama while his regiment was performing post-War occupation duty