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Wagoner George R. Jones
Maj. David Henry Wainwright Houck
Maj. David Henry Wainwright Houck Commanding Officer, 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. (USAAF). Born in Baltimore, MD on 26 Dec 1914 to Harry E. and Nellie W. Houck. Shot down over Hong Kong and executed by the Japanese on 6 April 1945. Major David H.W. Houck was shot down over Hong Kong on 15 Jan1945 and…
Pfc. Roger Glenn Stansbury
SSgt. Raymond Colison Chance
SSgt with Co. C., 36th Engineers Regiment. Died in-the-line of duty in the North Africa theater of operations on 12 Feb 1943. Son of Robert L. and Susan E. Chance of West Baltimore.
Pfc. Anthony E. Costanza
Sgt. Henry Nicholas John Gunther
Last American soldier killed in World War I. Sgt. Gunther, at age 23, was killed on 11 Nov 1918, at 10:59 am, just one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 am. Born 6 Jun 1895 in Baltimore, MD to George and Magdelena (Roth) Gunther. Inducted on 30 Sep 1917, assigned to Co. A,…
2nd Lt. James Lee Hitt
S2c. John Joseph Griffith
1st. Lt. Helen Adeline (Hales) Seager
Born 12 Aug 1900 in Baltimore, MD to Jacob and Ida May (Tharle) Hales. Graduate of Western High School and the Church Home and Infirmary School for Nurses in 1922. Fluent in Chinese, she would join her new husband, Missionary Rev. Warren Seager, in Nanking, China, running a free women’s clinic for indigent women. Served…