VMI World War II Memorial

VMI World War II Memorial (HM17DA)

Location: Lexington, VA 24450
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Country: United States of America
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N 37° 47.423', W 79° 26.104'

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Men of the Virginia Military Institute
who died in the Armed Services
in World War II ? 1941 - 1946

Reid Stanley Aaron ? Va. 1940 · Hawes Netherlands Adams ? N.J. 1943 · James Rivers Adams ? Va. 1931 · George David Akers ? Va. 1948 - A · James Granville Allen, Jr. ? Tenn. 1944 · James Pleasant Allen, Jr. ? Ga. 1933 · Marvin Judson Anderson, Jr. ? Va. 1943 · Charles Castro Arms ? N.C. 1939 · Charles Harwood Augustine ? Va. 1945 · John Richard Banks ? N.J. 1942 · Joseph X. Bell ? Va. 1938 · Belton Allan Bennett, Jr. ? S.C. 1934 · Beverly Sydnor Blackburn ? Va. 1943 · Neville Dean Blakemore ? Va. 1934 · Lawrence Crain Blanchard, Jr. ? La. 1930 · Robert Woodfin Boggess, Jr. ? Texas 1940 · Richard Booth, Jr. ? Va. 1938 · Paul Lambert Borden, Jr. ? N.C. 1938 · Jay Killian Bowman, Jr. ? Va. 1945 · Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. ? Ky. 1906 · George Thompson Burdeau, Jr. ? Mo. 1911 · John Ryd Bush ? Ga. 1946 · Charles Augustus Butler, Jr. ? 1941 · Cornelius Zane Bryd ? Va. 1926 · William Curtis Campbell, Jr. ? Va. 1946 · John Randolph Tucker Carmichael ? Ky. 1931 · Whitman Stratton Carpenter ? N.Y. 1943 · Bernard Pitzer Carter, Jr. ? Va. 1939 · Louis Guion Chadwick ? Va. 1930 · Philip Godfrey Chapman ? Texas 1940 · John Hamilton Christian, Jr. ? W.Va. 1944 · Douglas Maryon Clarke ? Pa. 1930 · Cecil Powell Coburn ? N.C. 1944 · Franklin Watts Coffman ? Va. 1945 · William Winston Coleman ? Va. 1939 · Freeling Tufts Colt ? Pa. 1938 · Joseph Bennett Coopwood ? Texas 1927 · Hester Clark Cothron ? Va. 1937 · Willis Jefferson Dance, Jr. ? Va. 1941 · Alfred Carlyle Darden, Jr. ? 1937 · William Howard Union Darden ? Va. 1940 · Edgar Marshall Dickerson ? D.C. 1930 · Richard Parada Dillon ? Va. 1945 · Gerald R. Dopkin ? N.J. 1947 - D · Kenna Granville Eastham ? Va. 1910 · William Watson Emory ? Md. 1935 · Arnold Hooper Ewell ? Va. 1946 · Andre Poitevin Fallwell ? Va. 1945 · Charles James Faulkner, IV ? Va. 1940 · Joseph Henry Fleming, Jr. ? Tenn. 1939 · Charles Benedict Fodale ? Mass. 1940 · Walter Alexander Ford, Jr. ? N.C. 1931 · Thomas Pope Fullilove ? La. 1928 · Robert Ostwald Garrett, Jr. ? Va. 1931 · James Clifton Gilliland ? Texas 1932 · Sidney Rogers Gittens, Jr. ? Pa. 1945 · Alfred Parker Goddin, Jr. ? Va. 1942 · Charles Henry Gompf ? Va. 1942 · Fleming Clark Goolsey ? Va. 1941 · Robert Lancaster Guy ? Va. 1942 · Frank Gilbredth Hamilton ? Va. 1945 · George Ben Johnston Handy ? Va. 1940 · Joseph D'Alton Harris ? Va 1940 · Seale Harris, Jr. ? Ala. 1923 · Charles Fauntleroy Harrison ? Va. 1931 · Charles Frederick Haupt ? N.Y. 1947 - A · Jesse Hartwell Heath, Jr. ? Va. 1938 · Louis Armistead Heindl, Jr. ? Va 1942 · Fred Bruce Hill ? Ky. 1941 · Frederick Allen Hippey ? Va. 1939 · Shirley Thomas Holland, Jr. ? Va. 1942 · Woodard Hoover ? Md. 1943 · Gilder Stansbury Horne, Jr. ? N.C. 1941 · Henry Clay Hudgins ? Va. 1932 · William Hervey Humlong, Jr. ? Mich. 1945 · Victor Hugo Idol, Jr. ? N.C. 1941 · John Kessler Jones, Jr. ? N.J. 1946 · James Nutty Jones ? Va. 1927 · Meriwether Jones ? Va. 1942 · Robert Emory Jones ? Va. 1945 · Thaddeus Wallace Jones, Jr. ? 1939 · Benjamin Rives Kearfott ? Va. 1943 · Charles Leslie Keerans, Jr. ? N.C. 1920 · William Parham Kevan, Jr. ? Va. 1939 · Philip Henry Killey ? W.Va. 1941 · Everett Glenn King ? Ga. 1942 · Rufus DeWitt King, Jr. ? Ga. 1936 · Stuart Waller King ? Va. 1919 · William Joseph Lang, Jr. ? Texas 1940 · Valentine Browne Lawlwss ? Va. 1932 · Robert Thornton Lemmon, Jr. ? Va. 1943
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
."

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Robert Augustus Lewis, ? Calif. 1942 · Lewis Archie Lillard, ? Va. 1942 · Jackson Sterling Littrell, N.Y. 1939 · Malcolm Blanchar MacKinnon, ? N.Y. 1940 · James Sinclair MacLean, Jr. ? Va. 1945 · Beriah Magoffin, III, ? Minn. 1936 · William Mahl, Jr., ? N.Y. 1945 · William Dow Markin, ? Ohio 1943 · Arthur Walter Marklis, ? Mass. 1932 · Richard Jaquelin Marshall, Jr., ? Va. 1944 · Walter Coleman Martin, Jr., ? Va. 1945 · Walter Norris Mason, Jr., ? Va. 1932 · George Alvin Massenburg, Jr., ? Va. 1942 · James Thomas Matthews, ? Va. 1947 - G · Nelson Eugene McCaa, ? Miss. 1940 · William Sayers McCauley, ? Va. 1941 · John Knudson McCullough, ? Ala. 1942 · John Joseph McEveety, ? N.Y. 1937 · Douglas Garvin McMillin, ? Tenn. 1940 · George Franklin Miller, ? Va. 1929 · Noel McHenry Moore, Jr., ? Ga. 1930 · Dan Joseph Morton, ? Ga. 1941 · Marcus Alfred Mullen, ? N.Y. 1936 · Charles Francis Nash, II, ? Va. 1941 · Alexander Caldwell Newton, ? Fla. 1931 · Robert Williamson Nix, III, ? Va. 1939 · David Ramsey Oakey, ? Va. 1942 · Leo Elmer Ofenstein, ? Md. 1937 · Thomas Ranson Opie, ? Va. 1940 · Addison Wilson Palmer, Jr., ? Fla. 1934 · George Smith Patton, Jr., ? Calif. 1907 ? Alexander Bruce Pendleton, ? Va. 1937 · George Booker Peters, ? Va. 1941 ? Samuel Duncan Puller, ? Va. 1922 · George Walter Renneman, ? N.Y. 1945 · John Marshall Ribble, ? Va. 1921 · William Thomas Semmes Roberts, ? Va. 1920 · Layne Rogers, Jr. ? Ill. 1945 · Edward Dunston Romm, ? Va. 1931 · William Val Sanford, ? Tenn. 1914 · Leonard Savitz, ? Pa. 1947 - A · Bailby Moses Sawyer, ? N.Y. 1927 · Ivanhoe Harrison Sclater, Jr. ? Mass. 1937 · James Fiske Searcy, ? Pa. 1941 · John Andrew Shanklin, Jr., ? W.Va. 1938 · Harold Carlock Sheffey, ? Va. 1937 · William Gray Shultz, ? Md. 1941 · Robert Luther Sibley, Jr. ? W.Va. 1938 · Manley Olin Simpson, Jr. ? Va. 1942 · Franklin Fletcher Smith, ? N.C. 1927 · Harry Lee Smith, Jr., ? Va. 1945 · James Alexander Smith, III, ? Va. 1940 · William Alexander Smith, ? Va. 1944 · Walter Stanley Smith, Jr., ? Pa. 1946 · Joseph Alfred Sosbee, Jr. ? Ark. 1941 · Augustus Rudd Spencer, ? Va. 1941 · George Hubert Steed, Jr., ? Va. 1941 · Virginius Rawls Stell, Jr., ? Va. 1944 · Joseph Warren Stirni, ? Va. 1931 · John Vandergrift Summerlin, ? Va. 1929 · Joseph Andrew Summers, Jr., ? Tenn. 1944 · Joseph Rodney Swetting, Jr., ? Pa. 1941 · Samuel Augustus Syme, ? D.C. 1921 · James Preston Taylor, ? Va. 1945 · Peyton Lisby Wade Thompson, Jr., ? Ga. 1943 · Edward Wood Thomson, ? Pa. 1919 · Paul Jones Thomson, Jr., ? Va. 1941 · Thomas Lee Thrasher, Jr., ? Va. 1941 · William Frederick Topham, ? Va. 1939 · Harold Willard Treakle, ? Va. 1945 · Norman Randolph Turpin, ? Va. 1942 · Richard William Twombly, ? Idaho 1944 · Maurice Linwood Tyler, Jr., ? Va. 1944 · William Peterkin Upshur, ? Va. 1902 · Carter Spottswood Vaden, ? Va. 1935 · Eugene Roane Venable, ? Va. 1934 · Sydney Archibald Vincent, Jr., ? Va. 1940 · Linwood Vinson, Jr., ? Va. 1940 · Robert Dade Wall, ? N.C. 1942 · David Garland Waller, ? Va. 1945 · Harvey Mitchell Walthall, ? Md. 1945 · Joseph Guthrie Ward, ? Va. 1917 · John James Ward, Jr., ? Va. 1934 · John Burroughs Warren, Jr., ? Texas 1933 · George Major White, ? N.C. 1939 · Walter Pleasants White, ? Va. 1945 · George Cooley Willcox, ?Mich. 1924 · William Robinson Williams, ? Va. 1925 · John David Wilson, ? Ky. 1939 · John Allison Woodall, ? Texas 1929 · Horatio Cornick Woodhouse, Jr., ? Va. 1936 · Edgar Mantlebert Young, Jr., ? Va. 1933 · Benjamin Allen Frye, Jr. ? Pa. 1945
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
."
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HM NumberHM17DA
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Date Added Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at 5:43pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 637791 N 4183711
Decimal Degrees37.79038333, -79.43506667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 47.423', W 79° 26.104'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 47' 25.38" N, 79° 26' 6.24" W
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Area Code(s)540
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 402-408 VMI Parade, Lexington VA 24450, US
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