bigpigeon.us webpage World Wars > WW II - At Home, updated by RAC 25 Aug '19.
"World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose."
-- Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, c. 1995
"World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose."
-- Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, c. 1995
Current this page consist only of death information for the following individuals who participated in World War II and died in the continental United States during or from the effects of World War II.
From the Gold Star Avoca webpage: (this list is incomplete)
From the Gold Star Avoca webpage: (this list is incomplete)
- Ensign James David Dea - Navy. Died 31 May 1944 in a training accident at Harvey Point, North Carolina. All nine crew members died when a two-engine Martin Mariner PBM-3D amphibious patrol plane of squadron VP-21 went into a stall and crashed during a bombing practice run.
- Private Alvin Vernon Niemann - Army Medical Corps. Died 14 Mar 1944 at the Lincoln, Nebraska Veterans Hospital from peritonitis caused by a gastric ulcer attributed to previous military service. He had previously served at Deshon General Hospital in Butler, Pennsylvania and prior to that with the 152nd Infantry Regiment. He had earlier overseas service, but I don't know where.
- Lieutenant Margaret Olesen - Women's Army Corps. Died 18 Jul 1947 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas of unknown causes. Prior to her hospitalization, she was Assistant Adjutant at the Fort Riley, Kansas Ground General School.
- Captain Frederick Theodore Rohlfs - Army Quartermaster Corps. Died 24 Jun 1944 in an automobile accident near Lorimer, Iowa while on reserve status. He was a clergyman in civilian life.