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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 ...
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
He was killed in action in France on Sept. 26, 1918, at age 28, just 16 days after the birth of his twins Thomas Jr. and Virginia. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France.
John Dingell, World War II veteran and politician; Bob Dole (1923–2021), [21] [22] served in World War II as a second lieutenant in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm while engaging in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna ...
There were about 2,000 general officers and the article lists 48 as being killed. That is 2.4%, which is about the same as for all service personnel (2.5%). Suicide rate was around 5 per 100,000, so 2 out of 48 is much higher than the average.
Officials using DNA analysis have identified the remains of a 19-year-old Virginian sailor killed in a World War II attack more than 80 years ago, the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
Veteran of World Wars I and II, received Distinguished Service Medal and Bronze Star. George C. Marshall: 1901 General of the Army, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army in World War II, Secretary of State (1947–49), Secretary of Defense (1950), and Nobel Peace Prize winner Richard Marshall: 1915 General during World War II Frank McCarthy: 1933
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War Two. The ambush ...