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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
