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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
