Burke, who graduated from WSC in 1923 with a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, was stationed in Shangai during the Japanese invasion in 1937. A Colonel, he died at Bethesda Naval Hospital November 12, 1944 due to heart failure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank Robbins Moran, born May 28, 1921, attended WSC in the fall of 1939 before transferring. A First Lieutenant and paratrooper, he landed at Normandy and was killed in action on June 15, 1944 near Amfreville, France.
Maximo Paulino Sebastian, born November 18, 1912, grew up in Jones in the Philippines. He attended Washington State College from 1935 to 1937. He joined the Army in 1944, and was killed in action October 25, 1944 in the Philippines.
Grenville Neil Porter was born February 15, 1915 and attended high school in Tacoma. He graduated from Washington State College on June 1, 1941, then joined the Army. He was killed on a Japanese transport ship on September 7, 1944.
James Delbert Kennedy, born January 30, 1923 in Salem, Oregon, attended Washington State College from 1941 until 1943. He joined the Army on September 11, 1943 and assigned to the 6th Infantry Division. He died from his wounds on January 19, 1945.
Billy Dean Hughes, born March 2, 1920, attended Washington State College from 1938 to 1941. He joined the Army Air Corps on December 19, 1941, and he died in a plane crash likely preparing to bomb Wake Island on April 29, 1943.
