What is known about Private August James Moody is that he was born on April 12, 1918, in Rowan County, Kentucky. He was the son of Bessie M. Workman-Moody & Henry C. Moody and had two brothers and two sisters.
What is known about Pvt. Robert Hazel Moss is that he was born to Thomas C. Moss & Emma T. Skaggs-Moss on August 1, 1922, in Oak Hill, Taylor County, Kentucky. He was the second of the couple’s three sons.
Sgt. James Francis McComas was born on June 6, 1920, in Brained, Minnesota, to Walter J. McComas & Elizabeth Koering-McComas. With his two sisters and three brothers, he grew up at 201 Third Avenue Northeast in Brainerd.
At some point,
Pvt. Gordon M. Newman was born in 1919 in Amite County, Mississippi, and was the son of Gordon & Mary Newman. With his two sisters and three brothers he grew up in unincorporated Gillsburg, Amite County, Mississippi, and was employed
PFC Roy Elmer Maghan was born on February 11, 1915, in Bay Lake, Minnesota, to Arthur M. Maghan & Eva Lou Hunt-Maghan. He grew up in Brainerd, Minnesota, and with his sister and brother, attended local schools. He was a
Pvt. Hugh Jackson Leonard was born on December 31, 1915, in Mercer County, Kentucky, to Bessie E. Walston-Leonard and Jackson H. Leonard and was one of the couple’s three sons. With his brothers, he grew up in Perryville, Kentucky. Like
PFC Joseph Peter Lamkin was born in Minnesota on October 17, 1921, to Frank Lamkin and Dorothy Moody-Lamkin in North Dakota. He was from Brainerd, Minnesota, and grew up at 808 Willow Street. He joined the Minnesota National Guard in
2nd Lt. Harry Ricker Lafon Jr. was born in Virginia around 1919 and was the son of Harry R. Lafon Sr. and Katherine Mallon-Lafon. He later lived in Harriman, Tennessee, and Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Harry met Helen Frankie McCamish while they
Pvt. James Henry Hurndon Jr. was born in Milstead, Georgia, on February 4, 1922, to James H. Hurdon Sr. & Eliza Ellen Rousey-Hurndon and had three sisters and a brother. In 1940, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, while his
Cpl. Ernest M. Horne was the son of James H. & Mamie Langley-Horne. He was born on September 25, 1915, and had three brothers and one sister. His mother died in 1923, and by 1930, he and his brothers were
What is known about T/4 Virgil J. Holt is that he was born in 1916 in Raleigh County, West Virginia. His father died and his mother remarried. It is known he had a brother and a sister. His step-father also
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