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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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U.S. ArmySummary
Bishop, born May 5, 1923, attended Washington State College from 1940-1943 as a speech major. A bombardier on a B-24 Liberator, he was killed when his routine training flight crashed in the California desert, July 2, 1944. 
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Pacific Theater, U.S. ArmySummary
Adams, born April 16, 1920, attended Washington State College from 1939-1941. A First Lieutenant and combat pilot in the US Army Air Corps, he was reported MIA on September 2, 1943 in the Pacific Theatre. His body was never found. 
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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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U.S. NavySummary
Marvin Scott Clinton, born February 15, 1921, graduated from Pullman High School in 1939. He attended WSC for one year as a General Studies major. A Naval Aviator and Lieutenant, he was killed in a plane crash January 9, 1945, in Morocco. 
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U.S. ArmySummary
Walter Chapin, Jr., born March 9, 1922, was a music and education major at WSC from 1941-1943. Promoted to the rank of Flight Officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he died when his P-51 crashed at Little Walden, England, October 11, 1944. 
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European TheaterSummary
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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Pacific Theater, U.S. ArmySummary
Van Vleet, a game management instructor at Washington State College from 1934 to 1937, was a Captain in the Army Air Corps. Riding as an observer on a B-24J on January 21, 1944, the plane crashed on takeoff, killing Van Vleet. 
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U.S. ArmySummary
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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Pacific Theater, U.S. ArmySummary
Judge, born April 17, 1911, attended Washington State College from 1936 to 1937 as a history major. He joined the US Army Air Corps in 1940 and was stationed in the Philippines. He died from dysentary and malaria September 12, 1942 at Cabanatuan prison. 
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Pacific Theater, U.S. NavySummary
Wollenberg, born October 17, 1916, graduated from Washington State College with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1938. A Navy pilot, he was declared missing after his Scout Squadron was lost August 5, 1942. His body was never found. 
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Pacific TheaterSummary
Welchko, born March 2, 1915, graduated from WSC in 1940 as a business major and ROTC commanding officer. A Captain in the US Army, he was a prisoner of war of the Japanese, killed on a ship transport bombed by the Allies on January 15, 1944.