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This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
Notes Isoroku Yamamoto: Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, mastermind of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. 1943-04-18 Bougainville Island Territory of New Guinea Japan: Plane shot down. Part of Operation Vengeance. [1] Viet Cong operatives Various. 1966–1972 Various South Vietnam: North Vietnam: Torture ...
Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our cemeteries, or listed as Missing in Action, buried or lost at sea. It does not contain the names ...
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Killed two U.S. coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. [16] Herbert Hoover: Carl Panzram: Hanging Murder September 5, 1930 United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936
Killed by a disgruntled former member of a Mormon sect led by Strang [30] John W. Stephens: Republican 1870 Member of the North Carolina Senate: Yanceyville, North Carolina (in the County Courthouse) Gunshots Unknown, mobbed by estimated 8 to 12 men Killed by a Ku Klux Klan member as part of an intimidation of Republican politicians [31] Elisha ...
An 18-year-old woman killed six people during a robbery at a drug house in Detroit. [61] [62] February 10, 1990 Las Cruces, New Mexico: 5 2 7: Las Cruces bowling alley massacre: Two unknown perpetrators entered the bowling alley and killed four people and injured three before fleeing. Though one victim later died from their injuries in 1999.
The following list shows the names of substantive, full grade general officers (Regular U.S. Army or U.S. Volunteers) effectively appointed, nominated, confirmed and commissioned (by signed and sealed document) who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] Many commissions were antedated.