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.
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.
Class of 1969
B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry
Chinquina was killed by a land mine in Vietnam.
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.”
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.
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
Bettles died in an internment camp in the Philippines.
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Class of 1861
F Company, 81st Pennsylvania Regiment
On the morning of December 13, the Union attacked Fredericksburg. Aydelott was leading Company F and encounrered a terrific storm of fire, when a ball shattered his right arm. With sword in his left hand he continued to advance until struck by a shell, which broke his leg in three places and fractured a number of ribs. He fell bleeding from nine wounds, and died January 5, 1863, in Washington, D. C., aged nineteen years.
Class of 1969
Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 165, 7th Fleet
Class of 1966
184th Ordnance Battalion, 1st Logistic Command, USARV
Ahlum was killed while leading his men to safety during enemy rocket and mortar attack.
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