Staff Sergeant George D. Keathley, USA (September 14, 1944)
George Dennis Keathley was born on March 10, 1917 in Olney, Texas. He graduated from what is today known as Texas A&M University with their class of 1937. He entered the United States Army for...
View ArticleFirst Lieutenant James H. Fields, USA (September 27, 1944)
James H. Fields was born in Caddo, Texas on July 26, 1920. He later lived in Houston, graduating from Lamar High School. Fields was drafted into the United States Army for World War II service on...
View ArticleSecond Lieutenant James L. Harris, USA (October 7, 1944)
James Lindell Harris was born on June 27, 1916 in Hillsboro, Texas and was 24 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army on March 20, 1941 prior to the United States’ entry into World...
View ArticleMajor Horace S. Carswell, Jr., USAAF (October 26, 1944)
Horace Seaver Carswell, Jr. was born in Fort Worth, Texas on July 18, 1916. He enlisted as an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Corps in early 1940, and later that year received his pilot’s...
View ArticleFirst Lieutenant Turney W. Leonard, USA (November 4-6, 1944)
Turney White Leonard was born in Dallas, Texas on June 18, 1921. He was a member of the class of 1942 at Texas A&M University and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army...
View ArticlePrivate Pedro Cano, USA (December 2-3, 1944)
Pedro Cano was born on June 19, 1920 in La Morita, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. At two months old, he moved with his parents to Edinburg, Texas. Other details of his early life are sketchy, but it’s known he...
View ArticlePrivate First Class George B. Turner, USA (January 3, 1945)
George Benton Turner was born on June 27, 1899 in Longview, Texas. He first answered America’s call to service in 1918, when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps while a student at the...
View ArticleSecond Lieutenant Audie L. Murphy, USA (January 26, 1945)
Audie Leon Murphy was born on June 20, 1925 in Kingston, Texas. He was the seventh of twelve children in a family abandoned by their father during his childhood. Murphy left school after the fifth...
View ArticleFirst Lieutenant Jack L. Knight, USA/TXNG (February 2, 1945)
Jack Llewellyn Knight was born on May 29, 1917 in Garver, Texas. He was a member of the Texas National Guard and was federalized for United States Army service with his unit – Troop F, 2nd Squadron,...
View ArticlePrivate Macario (Marcario) García, USA (November 27, 1944)
Macario García (some sources say “Marcario”; the former is on his tombstone) was born on January 20, 1920 in Villa de Castaño, Mexico. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1924 and...
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