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Born January 9, 1905, Levine graduated from Washington State College with an engineering degree in 1929. He entered the U.S. Army as a Captain and provided training for forces in tank combat. He was killed June 15, 1943 in an accident on base in Algeria. 
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Bolinger, born September 15, 1924, attended Washington State College as an ASTP trainee from June 1943 to early 1944. An infantryman in the U.S. Army, he was killed in action near Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, January 14, 1945. 
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Abernathy, born June 29, 1917, attended Washington State College from 1936 to 1937. A First Lieutenant in the US Army and a co-pilot of a Martin B-26C Marauder, he was killed when his plane crashed October 8, 1943, near Evans Landing, Indiana. 
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Robert Lachlan Campbell, born March 4, 1923, was an education major at WSC from 1940-1942. A Sergeant in the U.S. Army and working in Counterintelligence, he was killed in action in Bologna, Italy on April 24, 1945. 
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Froemke, a 1938 Washington State College graduate, was a Captain assigned to the 326th Airborne Engineering Battalion (AEB) of the 101st Airborne Division. He was killed on October 5, 1944 at Opheudsen in the Netherlands. 
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Yeilding, born October 24, 1918, attended WSC from 1938 to 1939 as a chemistry and chemical engineering major. Trained as a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps and assigned to the 347th Fighter Group, he was shot down over Cape Gazelle, January 23, 1944. 
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Born on March 13, 1924, William Adams attended WSC as a pharmacology major from 1942-1943. He enlisted in the US Army in 1943, and was assigned to the 414th Infantry Regiment of the 104th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on January 28, 1945. 
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Born March 5, 1918, Edwin Bornander graduated from WSC in 1941 with a BS in Agriculture, with honors. A Captain in the US Army, he was assigned to the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was killed in action on Sicily, November 7, 1943.
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Donald Calvin Black, born December 13, 1909, attended WSC from 1929-1932 as a Civil Engineering major. Assigned to the 334th Infantry Regiment of the 84th Infantry Division, he was wounded in December 1944, and died in England March 20, 1945.Digital Heritage
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A 1935 WSC graduate in history and political science, Emil Saleem Bitar was a Captain in Company E of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, 15th Infantry Reg, 3rd Infantry Div. He was killed in Sicily August 4, 1943. He was 30 years old. Digital Heritage
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William Schildroth, born November 16, 1899, was stationed at WSC from 1929-1933 as an officer for the ROTC program. Commander of the US Army 133rd Infantry Reg, 34th Infantry Div, he died near Mangona, Italy September 17, 1944.Digital Heritage
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John Otto Roeder, born June 22, 1924, attended WSC from September 1942 to February 1943. He was part of the 10th Mountain Division (Ski Troops) and fought in Italy. He went missing on a night patrol and his date of death was recorded as April 16, 1945.