WORLD WAR II WALL OF HONOR WINCHESTER WALL OF HONOR – Participating in the national effort of the Spirit of ’45 to photo-document the veterans of WWII, Winchester’s World War II 75th Anniversary Committee has compiled a Winchester Wall of Honor. Shown below is the collection to date. Residents and veterans’ families are invited and encouraged to contribute photos of veterans who enlisted from Winchester for both the local and national walls. On parade 1949 On parade 1950 An early version of the project displayed in Winchester Town Hall. The “wall” will be kept as Although the Wall of Honor does not include all who a digital supplement to the enlisted from Winchester, new photos may be contributed WWII veterans database. to photo-document further service men and women. Information about the people pictured is also welcome. The photos below have come from yearbooks, archival photo collections, newspapers, the Internet, and families. Although photographs of service men and women in uniform were preferred, many school photographs and a few of men in the uniforms of the Fire Department have been used with an effort to show the men and women as close to the age of enlistment as possible. The project, though designed for the 75th Anniversary of WWII, is still open to the contribution of further photographs, all to be kept in the Winchester Archival Center, which also has a database of all known veterans who enlisted from Winchester. TO CONTRIBUTE PHOTOGRAPHS: please e-mail scans to [email protected] or bring in photos during Archival Center open hours for copying. WALL OF HONOR ABBREVIATIONS THEATER OF OPERATION BLACK FRAME ATL Atlantic ETO Europe Indicates a person killed in action (KIA) MTO Mediterranean or died in service (DIS) PTO Pacific CBI China Burma India NUMBERS MEDALS A number after a name indicates the year of the Winchester High School yearbook from which the photo was taken. College pictures PH Purple Heart are identified by name and year. SS Silver Star BS Bronze Star AM Air Medal DFC Distinguished Flying Cross PUC Presidential Unit Citation A Robert Abbe Allen Abbott ’39 Frederick Abbott ’30 George Abbott ’36 Navy Navy Navy MTO Army, served in Egypt Submarine Division 142 William W Abbott ’39 Richard Abrahamson ’41 Arthur S. Adams, Navy June Aitchison ’40 Ward Albro ’37 Army AF Army ETO Chief administrator of WAAC Army V-12 Officer Training Program Harold Ambrose Ralph Ambrose Angelo P. Amico ’44 Louis Andersen Nils Andersen Army, Adjutant Army, MTO, SS Army AF Navy Navy General's Office, postal With 442nd Japanese- service American combat team Earle Andrews’39 Nicholas Armato Charles Armstrong ’36 Russell Armstrong ’37 Frederick Aseltine ’32 Navy Army, ETO Killed in plane crash Army Navy Patton’s 3rd Army stateside Theodore Atkinson ’44 Addison Augusta ’43 Army Reserve Army, ETO PH, BS B Charles Bacon ’39 Lawrence Bacon ’43 Leon Baghdoyan ‘34 Clement Bairstow ’38 Army Signal Corps ETO Navy PTO Navy AC Navy MM Ewart Bairstow ’35 Lawrence Bairstow, Jason Baker ‘36 Joseph Barbaro, Clement Barksdale ’38 Navy MM Army AC, ETO, navigator Marines, PTO commanded the USS Army on Flying Fortress “Big Thomas Jefferson Red” Geraldine Barksdale ’42 Mason Barksdale ’32 Philip Barksdale ’39 Richard Barksdale, William Barone, M.D. WAMS Navy Army AF Bowdoin ’37, town’s first Army AF, ETO African-American Army Landed at Omaha officer Beach on D+5 Charles Barry ’39 John Barry ’34 David Bartholomew ’43 Dawn Bartlett, F Donald Bates ’29 Army Army, PTO Army Red Cross, died from Army AF, ETO, exec exhaustion on Okinawa officer in a Marauder Squadron Robert Bates ’45 Bradley Batson Richard Batson ’36 Harold Batten ’41 William Baugher ’29 Navy Navy Seabees Army AF, ETO Navy CG PTO Navy Joseph Becker ’40 Gordon Bennett ’30 Edwin Berg George Billman ‘35 John Birch ’44 Navy Marines Marines, PTO Army Army at Guadalcanal and Rendova, PH Hugh Black, Navy Robert Blackler ‘37 Elliott Blaisdell ‘36 Paul Blake ’43 Charles Blanchard KIA while in command Army AC, ETO, pilot, Army AF Marines Army of destroyer torpedoed sole survivor when plane by German sub shot down, POW John T. Blanchard Parker Blanchard Wallace Blanchard Calvin Blomquist ‘42 Harold Boardley ‘40 Army AC, ETO Army AF Army Army, ETO Navy, PTO POW at Stalg Luft 1 Killed in France Seabees Carlton Bolivar ‘38 Robert Bolivar ’43 Warren Bolivar ‘42 Jacob Bond, Amherst ‘37 Harry Boodakian ’43 Army Army AF Navy Navy, PTO, KIA when Army AF USS Quincy was sunk Levon Boodakian ’39 John Bottger ’32 John Bosnian ‘36 O. Dudley Bragdon ‘36 Virginia Bratt ‘40 Army, ETO Army, ETO Army, MTO Army Army nurse, PTO William Breen Richard Briggs’43 David Brinkman ‘34 Fred Brown ’41 Raymond Brown ‘37 Navy Navy AC Army, PTO Royal Canadian Army Navy CG, ATL William C Brown ’31 Anthony Bucci’45 Betty A Budd ‘37 George Budd ’39 Alan Bugbee’44 Army MTO Army WAAC, Supply Officer, Navy Navy 1st Armored Division Air Technical Service Command Richard Bugbee ’39 William Buracker James Burke’43 Kevin Burke’45 David Burnham ’39 Army AC Navy, PTO Army ETO Coast Guard Army AF commanded the USS Princeton, SS Frank J Burns, Army, Walter Burns, Army, Joseph Burton, William Burtt ‘35 Paul Butterworth ‘40 ETO, died of wounds MTO, decorated for paratrooper, 81st & Army Army, MTO received in Luxembourg heroism in North Africa, 101st Airborne, died in Dec. 28 1944 SS service from accident Andrew Buzzota ’41 Dominic Buzzota ’39 Frank Buzzota ’43 Robert Byford ‘42 Army Army Army Army, MTO C Philip Cabot ’39 Cornelius Callahan Edward Callahan H Wilbert Callanan ‘42 Army AF Army Army, PTO Army With Americal Division KIA in the Middle East at Guadalcanal James T. Callahan Mary Callahan Robert Callahan David Cameron, Navy Fred Cameron ‘37 Army, ETO Marines Army Air Corps Marines DFC after flying in raids Waiting to give blood at a over Germany Red Cross station Charles Campbell ’45 John Campbell, Andrew Capone ‘34 Frank Capone ’41 Paul A Capone ‘40 Army Navy, PTO Navy Army Navy, PTO served on USS Enterprise, PUC Paul H Capone ‘37 Angelo Caputo ’39 John Caputo ‘40 Joseph Caputo ’41 William Carey ’44 Army, PTO Army AC PTO Navy Army AC Navy BS Francis E. Carlson ‘38 Herman Carlson ’43 John Carlson ’38 Mary L. Carpenter Charles Carr ’39 Army, ETO Army Navy MM Army Nurse, ETO Marines PTO 2 SS, BS, Croix de Landed in Normandy Guerre on DDay+7 Edwin Carr ‘38 Margaret Carroll ‘38 Thomas Carroll ’41 William Carroll ’39 Joseph Cassidy ‘35 USAF, PTO WAVES Navy Army AF PTO Army AC Frank Cefali ’41 David Chamberlain ‘36 Joseph Ciarcia Marjorie Clark ‘40 Mott Clark ’41 Army ETO Navy, PTO Army WAVES Navy AC Pharmacy Mate Neal Clark ‘42 Robert Clark Rufus Clark ‘38 Marjorie Clarke Norman Clarke ‘36 Navy AF Navy, MTO, SS, in Navy, PTO WAVES Army AF, ETO charge of PT boat Lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz Herbert Clement ’44 Robert Clifford ‘38Army Benjamin Coe, served Patricia Cole ‘40 William Cole ’44 Army on Admiral Halsey’s Marines WR Navy AC Staff, Silver Star John Colgate Ralph Colliander ‘40 Clark Collins ’43 Harry Collins ‘34 Richard Collins ’45 Navy Army AC, ETO, Army PTO Marines Army, driver for 19th Pilot for over 25 Infantry in Japan 1946 missions, AM Alfred Colucci ’29 Henry Colucci ’39 Andrew Comita Hugo Comita, Thomas Conlon ’39 Army Navy Army fought in many Army, ETO Navy PTO battles in PTO, PH POW in Gemany Joseph Connolly ’39 Joseph P Connolly ’39 Michael Connolly Stephen Connolly ‘42 Warren Connor ’45 Marines Army Army, in Australia Army Corps of Navy Engineers, ETO KIA in Luxembourg Margaret Connors ‘42 Paul Connors ‘39 Timothy Connors ‘40 James Coon ’41 R. Robert Coon ‘43 Marines WR Army ETO Navy CG Navy AC Navy, CBI Richard Coon ‘44 Francis Corby ’32 L Peter Cornwall ‘35 Daniel Coss Peter Coss ’29 Army Army PTO Army Army AF Army, PTO ATO, ETO Robert Costello ‘42 Jane Coulson ‘42 Margaret Coulson ’41 Robert Cox Courtney Crandall Army M.P. WAVES Canadian WAC Army AC, PTO Army Rex Crandall ’39 Robert Cross ’41 William Croughwell ‘38 Lawrence Cullen’39 Mary Cullen ’41 Army ETO Army Army Navy SPARS William Cullen ’30 Arnold Cummings ’43 Delphine Curtis ‘41 Alfred Cyr ‘40 Army Army Marines WR Navy clerk, typist D William Daley ’43 Daniel Daly ’32 Pauline D’Ambrosio, Richard Dana ‘40 Army AC Army PTO Army nurse, PTO, in Navy Australia & New Guinea Bradford Darling ‘38 George Davidson ‘34 Charles F Davis ‘35 Elbridge Davis ‘37 H Russell Davis ’30 Navy Army AF, PTO Army, PTO Army Army John DellaSvetura ’39 Alfred DeMinico ’39 Frank DeMinico ‘37 Dean Derby “42 Thomas Derro ’44 Army AF PTO Army Navy, PTO Navy Signal Corps Navy Anthony E. DeTeso Anthony J. DeTeso Rocco DeTeso ‘38 Paul Dillingham Frank DiMambro ’44 Navy Marines Army, ETO Army, MTO Navy LM, Crown of Italy Pictured in Korea 1955 John Dineen ‘42 H Russell Dockham ’44 Sherman Dodge, pilot of William Doherty ‘40 Charles Dolan ’32 Army AC Navy a Flying Fortress, KIA on Navy Army a raid over Germany Donald Dolan ‘40 William Dolan ‘38 James Donaghey ‘38 Robert L. Donaghey ‘37 Bernard Donahue ‘40 Army AC Army, ETO Navy AC, PTO Army, PTO Army AF 1st draftee from Winchester Bradford Donahue ‘42 Fred Donahue ’39 Robert Donahue ’43 Frederick Donovan ‘38 Robert Dooley, Army Army PTO Army military police Army, MTO MTO Medic, PH Charles Doucette Norman Doucette William Dowden ‘42 J. Edward Downes, Philip Downes Navy Marines, PTO Army ETO invaded S.