The Battle of Normandy: Honoring our fallen soldiers A guide to Mizzou’s Military History and the soldiers and service of the University of Missouri during World War II
Tourin’ Tigers
Dear Tourin’ Tigers, As the world marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we will be traveling to Normandy, a region that has factored significantly in the political, religious, cultural and gastronomic development of Western civilization. I look forward to being your host along with my wife, Debbie. This trip has special meaning for me since my grandfather, Silas McCubbin, fought in WWII and was stationed in France much of the time. While he wasn’t involved in the D-Day operation, he’s shared with me many stories from fellow soldiers who stormed the beaches that day. On this trip, we will experience the historic D-Day beaches and memorials, as well as other standouts of the region, including the stunning Mont-Saint-Michel, the Bayeux Tapestry and the picturesque port town of Honfleur. Along the way, we will indulge in some of Normandy’s most delectable culinary specialties and the region’s famed cider brandy, Calvados. Our itinerary has been carefully crafted by our tour partner at AHI, to include enriching cultural excursions, preferred access to popular attractions and an engaging educational component. I’m looking forward to the lectures by expert speakers that will provide meaningful context for what we encounter during our travels. To enhance the experience, we have assembled this trip booklet to highlight the contributions, the ultimate sacrifice, and influence Mizzou alumni, students, and faculty had on WWII. The booklet showcases the history of the military at Mizzou from just after the Civil War through the end of WWII. The Missouri Alumnus magazine, now MIZZOU magazine, was a monthly publication in the 1940’s and in each edition was a feature called Under the Stars & Stripes as well as a list of those who had perished, were missing-in-action or POW’s. We have included some of those magazine pages as a snapshot of the war years and the impact that it had on Mizzou. I hope these personal stories of those who served help connect our tour back to our beloved alma mater in a meaningful way. I look forward to traveling with you. Thanks for being a Tourin’ Tiger and your continued support of MU! For Mizzou,
Todd McCubbin, MEd ‘95 Executive Director Mizzou Alumni Association
THE MILITARY AND MIZZOU: 1861-1946 Many of the ads in the Missouri Alumnus magazine featured war themes during World War II.
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THE CIVIL WAR The role of the University of Missouri in the American military began in 1862 during the Civil War. Missouri was a border state, and Columbia was a town that had many citizens of southern ancestry, so the university area fell under the eye of the Federal government. On January 2, 1862, a group of Missouri volunteers known as “Merrill’s Horse” arrived in Columbia. The troops pitched tents on the campus and garrisoned the school. Academic Hall, the former administrative building that burned down in 1892, was used to house soldiers. The troops also interned Confederate prisoners in the main library on the third floor.
The Civil War had other detrimental effects on the university, as well. Classes were suspended for 10 months, in part because of troop occupation, and also because the university became short staffed. Only one staff member however, chairman of the math department, Edward T. Fristoe, joined the Confederacy. Students joining the war cut enrollment from 112 in 1860 to just 40 during the war. After the Union troops left the university in 1865, the Curators filed a claim against the federal government for damages incurred by the troops during occupation. Horses and wagons ruined the grounds, holes were cut in walls and floors by prisoners trying to escape, books from the library were used for fires, and over 100,000 specimens in mineral and fossil cabinets were reportedly damaged. It was also reported that Union soldiers found a box of blank diplomas and held their own commencement, awarding themselves university degrees. The claim was settled in 1915, with the University of Missouri receiving $7,450 for the damage claims. Over half of the settlement went to litigation fees, so the university actually received $3,383.33. The award was used to build the north gateway of Francis Quadrangle, located at 8th and Elm.
THE MISSOURI MILITARY SCHOOL The Morrill Act of 1862 gave the University of Missouri a more active and important role in U.S. military affairs after 1870. The Morrill Act created Land Grant institutions for teaching Agricultural
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and Mechanical Sciences, but it also required these colleges to cooperate in the National Defense Program, by obligating all male students to take a basic course in military tactics. MU was one of the first universities to adopt the Morrill Act, establishing the Missouri Military School. The first officer, General R.W. Johnson, was assigned to MU in 1868, and formal instruction began at the University in 1870.
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR In May of 1898, Company I, the 5th Missouri Volunteer Infantry was sent to a training camp at Chickamauga, Georgia. Camp Thomas, located at the famous Civil War battlefield, was home to “the University Company” from May 26-August 26, 1898. The company was not made up entirely of MU students, but it received its nickname from its large proportion of MU undergraduates, alumni, and former students. The company’s commissioned and non-commissioned officers were all MU undergraduates, and no other school sent as large a proportion of their undergraduates into service during the Spanish-American War Mosquitoes, disease and typhoid were prominent dangers for soldiers stationed at Chickamauga, but Company I left a clean record at the camp with no deaths, fines, sentences or stoppages of pay. This is partly attributed to the fact that Company I was never deployed in Cuba. However, three of the former students, alumni, and undergraduates of the University of Missouri who served in other companies died during the Spanish-American War.
NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT OF 1916 AND THE ROTC The National Defense Act, passed in 1916, established the Reserve Officer’s Training Program at schools and colleges throughout the United States. The program was created to develop trained leaders for times of national emergency and to teach military science and tactics on an equal footing with other academic subjects. Before this program at MU, only drill and basic rudiments of military practice were offered. 4
WORLD WAR I One year after the establishment of the ROTC program, the United States entered World War I. The number of students enrolled was heavily reduced as students and faculty left for military service or to work in war industries. Some fraternity and dormitory buildings were used as barracks for troops during training and instruction. In addition to students entering the war effort as soldiers, 48 students and MU graduates were recruited for the American Ambulance Field Service in France. The French requested 7,000 ambulance drivers for the war, and some were so eager to help that at least 20 people from MU volunteered to pay their own way to help. In 1918, the war effort along with the flu pandemic caused the suspension of intercollegiate athletics.
WORLD WAR II After the United States declared war against Japan in 1941, the University of Missouri began to again undergo the drastic changes brought on by a nationwide war effort. Attendance at MU, which consisted of around 5,000 enrolled students in 1938, dropped to about 1,500 by 1943. Many students and faculty entered the service or left the University to help in other areas of the war effort. A naval ROTC unit was established at the university in 1940, and by 1943, the 307th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) had brought an Air Corps training program to MU. Crowder Hall, built in 1938, became the headquarters for all military activity on campus, and Gentry Hall was used as a barracks during the war years. An even larger military presence was brought to the University of Missouri when the Army Specialized Training Program, or ASTP, was established in December 1942. The program was created to send soldiers to educational institutions to train in disciplines like medicine, dentistry, and foreign languages. ASTP sent many former college students that were now soldiers to the 5
University of Missouri by July 1943 to study these technical specialties deemed necessary to the war effort. The soldiers were housed in dormitories and some requisitioned fraternity houses, while Crowder Hall served as their mess hall. The program was shut down in 1944 due to the manpower demands for the invasion of Europe.
Although the Army Specialized Training Program was closed in 1944, military training at the university has continued through the present. The Army, Air Force and Navy all have ROTC programs currently in place at the university.
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MISSOURIANS IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP
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General Enoch Crowder, JD 1886 Hometown: Edinburg, Missouri (1859-1932) 1940, MU’s new ROTC building was dedicated and named in his honor, becoming Crowder Hall. Served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. Most noted for implementing and administering the United States Selective Service Act of 1917 Supervised the revision of the Articles of War for the first time since 1874 Served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1923-1927) Lt. Enoch Crowder was a prominent figure in the role of the military at MU. After graduating from Grand River College at 16, he taught at local Missouri schools until applying to the United States Military Academy on the advice of his mother, Mary Crowder. He graduated from West Point in 1881 and was assigned to the 8th Cavalry, stationed in Texas. In 1884, Crowder obtained a transfer to the Jefferson Barracks in Missouri. In 1885, Lieutenant Crowder was assigned as Professor of Military Science at the University of Missouri. Here he instructed two companies of cadets and created the first ROTC cadet band in the United States, which later became known as Marching Mizzou. Due largely to petitions from some of the 100 MU women students on campus, Crowder also helped organize the Ladies’ Department Drill Company, which lasted for two years. Soon after obtaining a law degree in 1886, Crowder was promoted to First Lieutenant and ordered to rejoin his regiment as a troop commander in the Geronimo campaign. Following the campaign's conclusion in September 1886, he resumed teaching at the University of Missouri until 1889. Upon completion of this detail, Lieutenant Crowder returned to the 8th Cavalry at Fort Yates, Dakota Territory, where he participated in the final campaign against Sitting Bull. In 1891, upon his promotion to captain he accepted a position as the acting Judge Advocate General of the Department of the Platte in Omaha, Nebraska. The beginning of the Spanish–American War marked his promotion to lieutenant colonel. From 1898 to 1901, while in the Philippines, he served as a judge advocate, and later served as secretary to the island governors, one of whom was Arthur MacArthur, Jr., father of Douglas MacArthur. Another island governor, Governor General William Howard Taft, was impressed by Crowder’s legal acumen and had him serve as a de facto advisor to the Vatican's counsel regarding the transfer of "friars' lands" to Philippine nationals in an attempt to create a system of indigenous land ownership in the hopes that the people of the Philippines would have a stake in their eventual independence. Impressed with the ability Crowder had demonstrated in the Philippines, Judge Advocate General Davis in 1901 called him to Washington to serve as deputy judge advocate general. In 1902, he became a member of the general staff, and attained the rank of colonel. In the RussoJapanese War of 1904–1905, he was a senior American observer with the Japanese Army. From 8
1906 to 1909, while serving on the staff of the provisional governors in Cuba, he oversaw the Cuban elections in 1908, and later helped draft a body of laws for Cuba. On February 11, 1911, after studying the military justice and penal systems of France and England on a European tour, he returned to Washington to be promoted to brigadier general and was named Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army by President Taft; a post he held for 12 years. On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. As Provost Marshal of the Army, Crowder led the drafting of the Selective Service Act, which was passed by the U.S. Congress in May 1917. General Crowder was also responsible for directing the Selective Service and supervised the draft – the registration, classification, and induction – of all American men who were 18–30 years of age into the armed services – over 2,800,000 men during WWI. After the war, General Crowder commenced work on reforms need in the military justice system. The specific recommendations he submitted to Congress, most of which were subsequently adopted, included greater safeguards for the accused, changes in the composition and powers of special courts-martial, and the addition of an authority in the President to reverse or alter any court-martial sentence found to have been adjudged erroneously. In the spring of 1919, at the invitation of Cuban President Menocal, Crowder went to Cuba to advise on revisions to the election laws which he had helped write years earlier. He stayed for several years with the U.S. title of Special Representative of the President and imposed reforms and appointments on the government before a U.S. bank would make a critical loan to the Cuban government. Crowder retired from the Army on February 14, 1923, and on the same day was appointed the first Ambassador from the United States to Cuba, a post that he held until 1927. From 1927 until his death in 1932, General Crowder was engaged in the private practice of law in Chicago. Crowder died in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 1932. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
General John J. Pershing Hometown: Laclede, Missouri (1860-1948) Honorary Degree, 1920 at Mizzou’s 78th commencement Led American Expeditionary Forces to victory in Europe during World War I 1923-1948 First Commissioner of American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). See additional information on the ABMC in this booklet.
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Completing high school in 1878, he became a teacher of local African American children. While pursuing his teaching career, Pershing also studied at the State Normal School (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri. He graduated in 1880 with a Bachelor of Science degree in scientific didactics. Two years later, he applied to the United States Military Academy. Pershing was sworn in as a West Point cadet in the fall of 1882. He was selected early for leadership positions and became First Captain, the highest possible cadet rank. Pershing also commanded, ex officio, the honor guard that saluted the funeral train of President Ulysses S. Grant as it passed West Point in August 1885. Pershing graduated in1886; he was commended by the West Point Superintendent, General Wesley Merritt, who said Pershing gave early promise of becoming an outstanding officer. 1886-1890 Pershing served with the 6th Cavalry at various postings in the western territories. He also became an expert marksman and, in 1891, was rated second in pistol and fifth in rifle out of all soldiers in the U.S. Army. 1891-1895 Pershing was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln. While teaching, he earned his law degree there in 1893. In 1892 he formed a drill company of chosen university cadets, Company A. In March 1892, it won the Maiden Prize competition of the National Competitive Drills in Omaha, Nebraska. In1894, former members of Company A established a fraternal military drill organization named the Varsity Rifles. The group renamed itself the Pershing Rifles in 1895 in honor of its mentor and patron. He maintained a close relationship with Pershing Rifles for the remainder of his life. 1895 Pershing took command of a troop of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, one of the original Buffalo Soldier regiments composed of African-American soldiers under white officers. In 1897, Pershing was appointed to the West Point tactical staff as an instructor, where he was assigned to Cadet Company A. Because of his strictness and rigidity, Pershing was unpopular with the cadets and acquired his nickname, “Black Jack,” that stuck with him for the rest of his life. 1898 Served with Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. 1899-1901 Served in Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Served in diplomatic posts in Europe and Asia. 1917 WWI: President Woodrow Wilson considered mobilizing an army to join the fight. Wilson briefly interviewed Pershing, and then selected him as Commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). He was officially installed in the position on May 10, 1917, and held the post until 1918. On October 6, 1917, Pershing, then a major general, was promoted to full general in the National Army. Because of the effects of trench warfare on soldiers' feet, in January 1918, Pershing oversaw the creation of an improved combat boot, the "1918 Trench Boot," which became known as the "Pershing Boot" upon its introduction.
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In October 1918, Pershing saw the need for a dedicated Military Police Corps and the first U.S. Army MP School was established at Autun, France. For this, he is considered the founding father of the United States MPs In 1919, in recognition of his distinguished service during World War I, the U.S. Congress authorized the President to promote Pershing to General of the Armies of the United States, the highest rank possible for any member of the United States armed forces, which was created especially for him. Also in 1919, Pershing created the Military Order of the World War as an officer's fraternity for veterans of the First World War, modeled after the Military Order of Foreign Wars. Both organizations still exist today and welcome new officer members to their ranks. Pershing himself would join the MOFW in 1924 upon his retirement. In 1921, Pershing became Chief of Staff of the United States Army, serving for three years. He created the Pershing Map, a proposed national network of military and civilian highways. The Interstate Highway System instituted in 1956 bears considerable resemblance to the Pershing map. Army regulations from the late 1860’s to the early 1940’s required officers to retire on their 64th birthday, so on September 13, 1924, Pershing retired from active military service. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
General Omar Bradley Born: Randolph County, Missouri Hometown: Clark, Missouri (1893-1981) University of Missouri Honorary Degree, 1946 Commanded the 12th United States Army Group, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander in U.S. history First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War. General Bradley served on active duty continuously from August 1, 1911 until his death on April 8, 1981 – a total of 69 years, 8 months and 7 days. This was the longest active duty career in the history of the United States Armed Forces. When Omar was 15, his father, with whom he credited passing on to him his love of books, baseball and shooting, died. His mother moved to Moberly, Missouri and remarried. Bradley graduated from Moberly High School in 1910, an outstanding student and athlete, captain of both the baseball and track teams. After high school graduation, in order to earn enough money to enter the University of Missouri, Bradley worked as a boilermaker for the Wabash Railroad for 17 cents per hour. Bradley's plans changed, though, when his Sunday school superintendent recommended that he apply for an appointment to West Point. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of "the class the stars fell on." During World War I, Bradley guarded copper 11
mines in Montana. After the war, Bradley taught at West Point and served in other roles before taking a position at the War Department under General George Marshall. In 1941, Bradley became commander of the United States Army Infantry School. After the U.S. entrance into World War II, Bradley, recently promoted to major general, oversaw the transformation of the 82nd Infantry Division into the first American airborne division. In August 1942, the division was re-designated as the 82nd Airborne Division and Bradley relinquished command to Major General Matthew B. Ridgway. In 1943, Bradley received his first front-line command in Operation Torch, serving under General George S. Patton in North Africa. After Patton was reassigned, Bradley commanded II Corps in the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily. In June 1943, he was promoted to temporary lieutenant general. Bradley moved to London as commander in chief of the American ground forces preparing to invade France in 1944. For D-Day, Bradley was chosen to command the 1st US Army, which, alongside the British Second Army, made up General Montgomery's 21st Army Group.
D-Day - June 6, 1944 On June 10, General Bradley and his staff debarked to establish a headquarters ashore. During Operation Overlord, he commanded three corps directed at the two American invasion targets, Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. During July he inspected the modifications made by Curtis G. Culin to Sherman tanks that led to the Rhino tank. Later in July, he planned Operation Cobra, the beginning of the breakout from the Normandy beachhead. Operation Cobra called for the use of strategic bombers using huge bomb loads to attack German defensive lines. After several postponements due to weather, the operation began on July 25, 1944 with a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives, designed so as not to create more rubble and craters that would slow Allied progress. After the breakout from Normandy, he took command of the Twelfth United States Army Group, which ultimately comprised forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander. After the war, President Truman appointed Bradley to head the Veterans Administration for the next two years. He served from August 15, 1945 to November 30, 1947 and is credited with doing much to improve its health care system and with helping veterans receive their educational benefits under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Bradley's influence on the VA helped transform it into the agency it is today. Known by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for those soldiers under his command, he as the ideal leader to re-shape the Veterans Administration. He became Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1948 and the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949. In 1950, Bradley was promoted to the rank of General of the Army, becoming the last of only nine people to be promoted to five-star rank in the United States Armed
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Forces. That same year, Bradley was made the first Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. He remained on the committee until August 1953, when he left active duty. After he left active duty, both political and military leaders continued to seek Bradley's advice. Perhaps more importantly, he remained in close touch with the Army and served its succeeding generations as the ideal model of a professional soldier. Moberly called Bradley its favorite son and throughout his life, Bradley called Moberly his hometown and his favorite city in the world. He was a frequent visitor to Moberly throughout his career, was a member of the Moberly Rotary Club, played near handicap golf regularly at the challenging Moberly Country Club course and had a "Bradley pew" at Central Christian Church. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1981, the Army’s new fighting vehicle platform was named in honor of General Omar Bradley. Known as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV), The Bradley is designed to transport infantry or scouts with armor protection, while providing covering fire to suppress enemy troops and armored vehicles.
Donald M. Nelson, CE ‘11 Hometown: Hannibal, Missouri (1888-1959) 1942- Gave commencement speech at Mizzou 1942 to 1944- First chairman of US War Production Board Served as President Roosevelt's special representative to the Soviet Union and China at the end of WWII Nelson graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in chemical engineering in 1911, and was hired by Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1912 as a chemist. He became a buyer for Sears, Roebuck and steadily rose through the ranks, becoming an executive vice president and vice chairman of the executive committee by 1939. With humor, he liked to tell journalists that he was the editor of the most widely circulated publication in the country - the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog. 13
In May 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt brought Nelson to Washington, DC to work in the Department of Treasury, placing him in charge of managing raw materials to be sold to Allied nations that had already been engaged in WWII. In July 1941, as Roosevelt geared up the United States for war, instead of fixing the existing but inefficient Office of Production Management (OPM), he established a new office, the Supply, Priorities, and Allocation Board (SPAB), and placed Nelson in charge. Nelson brought commercial buying experience to the otherwise bureaucratic practices of Washington, DC. When buying clothing for the military servicemen, he found all existing clothing were made of only one type of cotton which was manufactured by a single firm; he switched to another type of cotton, therefore dramatically cutting cost. He also brought with him the practice of sending orders to factories during slow seasons when the factory owners were more likely to accept lower prices. In January 1942, Roosevelt abolished both OPM and SPAB and established the War Production Board. Once again, the president looked to Nelson to lead it. He immediately worked to convert the automotive industry to war production, and attempted to prioritize the allocation of steel and rubber, both critical for war. The War Production Board (WPB) directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production. It rationed commodities including gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, paper and plastics. The WPB and the nation’s factories affected a great turnaround. Military aircraft production, which totaled 6,000 in 1940, jumped to 85,000 in 1943. Factories that made silk ribbons now produced parachutes, automobile factories built tanks, typewriter companies converted to machine guns, undergarment manufacturers sewed mosquito netting, and a roller coaster manufacturer converted to the production of bomber repair platforms. The WPB ensured that each factory received the materials it needed to produce the most war goods in the shortest time. Joseph Stalin said during a dinner at the Tehran Conference in 1943, “Without American production the Allies could never have won the war.” From 1942 to 1945, the WPB directed a total production of $185 billion worth of armaments and supplies. At war’s end, most production restrictions were quickly lifted, and the WPB was abolished on November 3, 1945, with its remaining functions transferred to the Civilian Production Administration. Nelson's final government posts was being Roosevelt's special representative to the Soviet Union and China. He returned to the private sector after leaving Washington, again holding executive positions at major firms.
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Paul Christman Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri (1918-1970) Missouri’s first All-American football player Member of the College Football Hall of Fame 1968 Recipient of the Faculty-Alumni Award (inaugural year) NFL Draft: 1941 2nd round draft pick Photo: 1941- Chief Boatswain’s Mate at the MU Naval Training School A St. Louis native, Christman played for Coach Don Faurot and led the Missouri Tigers to a 20–8 record during his three seasons as the starting quarterback. He was a two-time All-American, and led the nation in touchdown passes in 1940. He was Missouri's all-time leading passer until 1976, when he was surpassed by Steve Pisarkiewicz. While at the University of Missouri, he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. His jersey number, 44, is one of seven retired by the school. In 1956, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Christman played six seasons in the National Football League, from 1945 to 1950. He was a member of the so-called "Dream Backfield", which led the Chicago Cardinals to the 1947 NFL Championship. He was selected All-Pro in 1946 and 1947. After retiring as a player, Christman worked as a television color commentator, first teaming with play-by-play announcer Joe Boland to call Cardinals games for CBS in 1958 and 1959. In 1962, he began calling American Football League games on ABC with Curt Gowdy, a pairing that continued after AFL rights shifted to NBC in 1965. Christman called Super Bowl I with Gowdy for NBC in January 1967. In 1968–69 he returned to CBS, teaming with Ray Scott on NFL broadcasts. Christman also called the collegiate Orange Bowl game for several years, teaming with Boland (1960), Scott (1961), and Gowdy (1962–67). He and Gowdy then called the Rose Bowl game in 1968.
The name FAUROT is synonymous with the University of Missouri and Mizzou Athletics. The contribution to America in World War II by the Faurot family is exceptional. All four Faurot brothers served in WWII: •
Lt. Commander Donald B. Faurot, US Navy
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Lt. Commander Frederick W. Faurot Jr., US Navy
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Captain Jay Lyle Faurot, US Marine Corps, Marine Aviator
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Captain Robert Lloyd “Bob” Faurot, US Army Air Corp Aviator
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Donald Burrows Faurot, BS Ag 1926, MA 1927 Born: Mountain Grove, Missouri (1902 –1995) Hometown: Columbia, Missouri MAA Faculty-Alumni Award 1972 MAA Distinguished Service Award 1984 MAA Homecoming Grand Marshal 1984 Citation of Merit, College of Agriculture 1985 Jefferson Club Golden Quill Alumni Excellence Award Letter winner in Football, Baseball, Basketball 1923-1924 FarmHouse Fraternity 1921 Mystical Seven 1923 Omicron Delta Kappa 1959 A Mizzou icon, Faurot is best known for his eight-decade association with the University of Missouri. His association with the University started when he was a young boy who would sneak into Rollins Field to watch the Tigers play and practice. He was the eldest of four brothers to win a football letter at Missouri. Faurot was a three-sport letterman from 1922 to 1924. A fullback in football, he also captained the basketball team and was an infielder in baseball. He served as the head football coach at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville (now known as Truman State University) from 1926 to 1934. Even while coaching at Kirksville State, Faurot remained close to Mizzou. As a graduate student in agriculture in 1926, Faurot helped lay the sod for Missouri's new Memorial Stadium in 1926. In 1935, Faurot returned to Mizzou as head football coach and athletic director, titles he retained until 1956 except for three years of service (1942-1944) in the United States Navy during World War II. He coached the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1943 and the football team at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in 1944. Faurot is credited with inventing the split-T formation in 1941 and in the post-World War II era, many coaches adopted the Faurot formation—most notably, Bud Wilkinson and Jim Tatum, who learned the offense first-hand while serving as his assistant coaches with the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks during the war. More than 60 years later, it is still in vogue today at all levels of football. Several of football's most notable formations—the Wishbone, Wingbone, Veer or I-attack and others—utilize Faurot's option play as their basic concept. In 19 years as the Tiger football coach, Faurot's record was 101 wins, 79 losses and 10 ties, a record that remained unmatched until coach Gary Pinkel passed him in 2013. His 1939 team, featuring All-American Paul Christman, won the first Big Six Conference title and a bid to the Orange Bowl. His 1941 team also won the Big 6 title after a 45-6 drubbing of Kansas, and played in the Sugar Bowl. After a last-second win against Kansas in 1956, he stepped down as head coach to concentrate on his duties as athletic director. Under him, the Tigers won three conference titles and went to four bowl games. When he retired as athletic director in 1967, the program was in the
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black and Memorial Stadium's capacity had doubled to more than 50,000 through five different expansions. He served as the president of the American Football Coaches Association in 1953. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1961 and received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award in 1964. The playing surface as Missouri's Memorial Stadium was named Faurot Field in his honor in 1972. Faurot never really found a way to retire though. He maintained an office at the Tom Taylor Building where he spent several hours nearly every day, and was a regular attendee at football practice. In 1995, he placed the final square of sod as MU successfully converted Faurot Field back to natural grass.
Frederick Faurot Jr., BS Ag 1936, MA 1938 Born: Mountain Grove, Missouri (1909-2000) Hometown: Columbia, Missouri Sigma Chi Fraternity Letter Winner Football and Baseball 1930-1932 Faurot served as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He coached football at Central Methodist College in Fayette and at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. He later coached football at Murray State University, taking the team to the Tangerine Bowl in 1948. He was inducted in the Murray State Athletic Hall of Fame. He later taught, coached and served in the administration at Hickman High School until his retirement in 1973.
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Jay Lyle Faurot, Sr., BS Ed 1936 Born: Mountain Grove, Missouri (1913-1948) Lettered in football in 1933-35 “M” Men’s Club member Sigma Chi Fraternity Jay fought in five major battles in the South Pacific during WWII as a Marine aviator. After the leaving military service in 1946, Faurot was an athletic coach at Lebanon High School, and later became part owner of the Pure Seal Dairy, Quincy, Illinois.
Robert Lloyd “Bob” Faurot Born: Columbia, Missouri (1917-1943) Attended the University of Missouri 1937-1940 Captain, US Army Air Corps Aviator The youngest son of eight children - four boys and four girls – Bob grew up in Mountain Grove, Missouri where his father was Director of the Missouri State Fruit Experimental Station. The family later moved back to Columbia where Bob graduated from Hickman High School. He attended the University of Missouri and was an outstanding blocking back on the football team in 1937, ‘38, ’39. He played with the team at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida in 1939. After the football season of his senior year, he joined the Army Air Corps in March 1940. His first assignment was with the 31st Pursuit Group, 39th Pursuit Squadron at Selfridge Field, Michigan. Lt. Robert Faurot was chosen as one of a small group of volunteer American Air Officers to go to England and fly as observers with the Royal Air Force during the critical stages of the Battle of Britain. While in England, he flew Spitfire and Hurricane fighters with the 303rd and 306th Polish RAF Squadrons from Northolt Base, just west of London. In July 1941, Bob was ordered back to the United States, but before his return the Polish Government in Exile awarded him the Polish Combat Medal.
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Returning to the US and back again with the 39th Pursuit Squadron, Bob flew many hours in the new P-39 Bell Airacobra during the military maneuvers held that summer and fall. With his flying experience he was soon appointed the flight leader of “A” Flight in the squadron and excelled. Sunday, Dec. 6, 1941 the news came that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Lt. Bob Faurot was soon in the air leading his flight toward the West Coast and into the War. The 39th Squadron was quickly sent to Australia and from there entered combat with the Japanese in New Guinea in June 1942. Flying combat missions in the skies over New Guinea during June and July, Bob proved to be a skilled and daring pilot. March 3, 1943, during what became known as The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the P-39s of the 39th Squadron were assigned the roll of “top cover” for a flight of B-17s. The bombers were attacked by 30 Japanese Zeros and the 39th dove into the fray to protect them. In the ensuing aerial battle, three P-39s and one B-17 did not return. Those killed in action that day were Capt. Robert L. Faurot, Lt. Hoyt A. Eason and Lt. Fred B. Shifflet. His remains were never recovered. There is a memorial for Bob at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. In January of 1944, the US Army Air Force presented Bob’s parents with the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to Captain Robert L. Faurot.
Addison Morton “Mort” Walker, BA 1948 Born: El Dorado, Kansas (1923-2018) Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Kappa Sigma Fraternity Won a Reuben Award in 1953 for “Beetle Bailey” Cartooning awards including the Elzie Segar Award in 1977 and 1999 In 2010 the Cartoon Art Museum presented him with the Sparky Award for lifetime achievement Mort had his first comic published at age 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12. At age 14, he regularly sold gag cartoons to Child's Life, Flying Aces, and Inside Detective magazines. When he was 15, he drew a comic strip, The Lime Juicers, for the weekly Kansas City Journal, and was working as a staff artist the same time for an industrial publisher. Graduating from Northeast High School in 1941, he attended one year at Kansas City Junior College before coming to the University of Missouri. At age 18, he was the chief editorial designer for Hallmark Brothers (later Hallmark Cards) and was instrumental in changing the company's card from cuddly bears to gag cartoons, which is more suitable for soldiers. While at Hallmark, he made $25 per week, which put him through his first years at MU. He continued to design cards while in college for $1 each. In 1943, Walker was drafted into the United States Army and served in Italy, where he was an intelligence and investigating officer and was in charge of an Allied camp for 10,000 German 19
POWs. After the war, he was posted to Italy where he was in charge of an Italian guard company. He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1947 and returned to Mizzou to complete his degree. He graduated in 1948 from the University of Missouri, where he was the editor and art director of the college's humor magazine, ShowMe. Hundreds of his cartoons appeared on the pages of ShowMe and the Savitar yearbook during his time at Mizzou. He was also active in his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, and was chapter president his senior year. After graduation, Mort was working as a magazine cartoonist in New York when John Bailey, the cartoon editor of the Saturday Evening Post, encouraged Mort to do some cartoons based on his college experiences at the University of Missouri. One character, a goof-off with a hat over his eyes named “Spider,” who spent way too much time hanging out at The Shack, emerged from these efforts. After selling a few college cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, Mort then decided to submit a comic strip to King Features Syndicate starring Spider and his fraternity brothers. When King bought the strip, Mort changed Spider’s first name to “Beetle” and added “Bailey” in honor of John Bailey. Images resembling the interior of The Shack appeared in Beetle Bailey cartoons and is mentioned by name in the September 14, 1950 Beetle Bailey strip. With the Korean War heating up in the early 1950’s, Beetle accidently enlisted in the Army and the rest is comic history. Beetle’s base, Camp Swampy is actually based on the real Camp Crowder, a WWII army base built in Neosho, Missouri. The site was officially named Camp Crowder on Sept. 24, 1941, in honor of the late Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, a Missourian best known for drafting the Selective Service Act of 1917. In February 1942, Camp Crowder became the second replacement training center for the Signal Corps — the branch of the Army that manages communications. Mort was stationed at Camp Crowder for several weeks during World War II, which became his inspiration for “Camp Swampy”.
Howard A. Rusk Hometown: Brookfield, Missouri (1901-1989) Bachelor of Arts, 1923; Honorary Doctorate of Science, 1947 Faculty-Alumni Award Recipient, 1972 Citation of Merit from the MU School Of Medicine, 1975 Jefferson Club Golden Quill Award for Alumni Excellence Recognized as the “Father of Rehabilitative Medicine” In 1923, Rusk received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Rusk’s interest in helping the disabled began when he joined college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. One of the fraternity’s staff members was an amputee who “walked around on crutches, trying to do his work.” Rusk and his fraternity brothers raised money to buy the man a prosthetic leg. Rusk remembered, “I can still see his face when we presented it to him. That leg meant everything to him, but it also meant a lot to me because it made me feel the crucial importance to a handicapped person of something the rest of us took for granted—the ability to walk.”
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During World War II, Rusk joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and was appointed chief of medical services at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. Before Rusk’s innovative treatment program, disabled and severely injured individuals were often overlooked by the medical community. (Read his story from the Missouri Alumnus magazine in 1943) Recognized as an expert in his field, Rusk served as a consultant to nine U.S. presidents, the Veteran’s Administration, and the United Nations. For his work and achievements, Rusk received many awards and honors. Dr. Howard Rusk helped thousands of individuals achieve a better quality of life through his approach to rehabilitation and his work to change attitudes within the medical community toward working with the physically disabled. As a result, amputees, paraplegics, stroke victims, and others afflicted by physical challenges found hope in rehabilitative medicine. Rusk lived his life by the motto with which he ended his 1972 autobiography: “To believe in rehabilitation is to believe in humanity.” In 1974, the University of Missouri named its rehabilitation center in honor of Rusk. The University of Missouri Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital, provides quality care to people who have suffered an injury or illness. Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital has achieved a reputation throughout Missouri and surrounding states as one of the foremost centers for rehabilitation and physical medicine. No other mid-Missouri hospital provides such comprehensive services in one place.
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UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES From 1941 to 1945, every month in the Missouri Alumnus magazine, there were lists of the missing and the dead in the “Honor Roll” section as well as a military version of class notes in the section, “Under the Stars and Stripes. Here are a few examples of those pages.
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MIZZOU’S OWN WAR STORIES Definition of war story: a story of a memorable personal experience typically involving an element of danger, or hardship. In the pages of the Missouri Alumnus during this time were stories written by or about Mizzou’s true sons and daughters as they served in WWII. Here are some of their stories.
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G.I. CITY TRAILER PARKS Fairway Village was located near the southwest corner of Maryland Ave and Kentucky Boulevard; Crowder Hall is visible in the upper section of the photo. The Dairy Lawn was located at the corner of College and Rollins, in front of Eckles Hall.
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This article was written by Thomas A. Brady, the namesake of Brady Commons.
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TIGERS LAID TO REST OVERSEAS
"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds." -General of the Armies John J. Pershing First Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments Commission (the longest serving commissioner) 1923-1948 and a Missourian
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established by the United States Congress in 1923 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its purpose is to commemorate the services of the U.S. armed forces where they have served since April 6, 1917. The ABMC is an independent agency of the United States government. Today, ABMC administers, operates and maintains 26 permanent American burial grounds and 30 separate memorials, monuments and markers, on foreign soil (17 foreign countries and territories). It also maintains three memorials in the United States. Today there are 124,000 American war dead interred in these cemeteries, of which 30,973 are from World War I and 92,958 from World War II. More than 94,000 American servicemen and women who were missing in action, lost, or buried at sea during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are commemorated, by name, on stone tablets in ABMC cemeteries and memorials. All of the 21 cemeteries in Europe specifically honor those who served in WWI and WWII. There are approximately 100,000 buried and over 20,000 missing in action listed on the tablets. Many Missourians, including Mizzou alumni, who served, are buried in these cemeteries. The other WWII cemeteries are in the South Pacific, and some of our alumni are also buried there. On this trip, you will be visiting three of these monuments and cemeteries - Utah Beach Monument, Pont Du Hoc Monument and the American Cemetery in Normandy. We have identified the location of the grave sites of those alumni buried in Normandy or are listed on the Wall of the 48
Missing. We have also included the information on those alumni interred at the Henri—Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium. We have included information from the ABMC on each of these sites so you can take it with you on the trip.
NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY (FRANCE) Orval W. Epperson Service # O-768946 Rank Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces Unit 525th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From: Missouri Date of Death July 9, 1944 Memorialized Tablets of the Missing Awards Purple Heart Air Medal
William I. Gordon
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Service # 37199277 Rank Private, U.S. Army Unit 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division Entered the Service From: Missouri Date of Death December 25, 1944 Memorialized Tablets of the Missing Awards Purple Heart
Richard J. Waters Service # O-886142 Rank First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces Unit 450th Bomber Squadron, 322nd Bomber Group, Medium Entered the Service From Missouri Date of Death July 8, 1944 Buried Plot A Row 13 Grave 42 Awards Purple Heart Air Medal with 4 Oak Clusters
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HENRI-CHAPELLE CEMETERY (BELGIUM) Charles R. Davis
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Service # 36960548 Rank Private First Class, U.S. Army Unit 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division Entered the Service From: Missouri Date of Death March 1, 1945 Buried Plot F Row 10 Grave 76 Awards Purple Heart
Charles R. Flynn Jr. Service # O-690397 Rank Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces Unit 339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From: Missouri Date of Death February 11, 1945 Status Missing in Action Buried Plot F Row 10 Grave 76 Awards Purple Heart Air Medal
Thomas E. Riley
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Service # 18032447 Rank Master Sergeant, U.S. Army Unit 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Entered the Service From: Missouri Date of Death December 19, 1944 Buried Plot F Row 8 Grave 15 Awards Purple Heart Air Medal
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IN MEMORIAM After WWII ended, the University and the Alumni Association collaborated to produce a booklet with all the names and photos of those alumni and students who were lost in WWII. The president of the Alumni Association at that time was Silas Oak Hunter. In 1946, the Association published the In Memoriam booklet listing all 338 names. This is the cover of that booklet. We have included a few sample pages.
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HONOR ROLL Wallace Omar Akins
William Sylvanus Allee
Lorenzo Dowe Anderson, Jr.
Charles Harry Apple III
Alan Charles Attebery
John Dale Baker
John Leslie Barnes
James Harrison Barns III
Herbert Robinson Bassman
James Kirby Bauer
Josef Eric Beauclair
Thomas David Becker
Carl Keith Bell
John Manche Bennett
George Beauregard Berry
Levi Roland Berry
Max Eugene Biggerstaff
Richard Otto Birk
Jack Powell Blanton
Clifford Ward Boggess
John Fred Boggs
Seymour Bornstein
John Phillip Brandt
Robert Louis Brenton
Thomas Hughes Brents
Clarence Edwin Bridwell
Kenneth Hastings Brigham
Herbert Dean Brown
James Charles Brubaker
Edward Moscoe Bruton, Jr.
Chester Lewis Buoy, Jr.
Donald Randall Burke
Evans Hyland Burnite
Harry H. Burr
George Keller Busiek
John David Busiek
Henry Walker Bushyhead
William Sanford Butcher
Lowell Edward Cadwell
Roy Lee Caldwell, Jr.
Donald Robert Camfield
William Joseph Cargill
George E. Carter
John Curtis Casteel
Edwin Keith Cheavens
William Clay Choplin, Jr.
Ray Sherman Clark
Berlin F. Coday, Jr.
Freeman Blaine Cole
Howard Robert Combs, Jr.
Charles Jackson Conn
Jacob Henry Cordes, Jr.
Walter Lawrence Crampton
William Morris Crane
John Allan Crawford
Alexander Crow, Jr.
Lawrence Patrick Culkin
Robert Firmen Cunningham
Wilkie Burford Cunnyngham, Jr. Charles English Davis
Gerald Vincent Davis
James Edwin Davis
Jefferson W. Davis
Kenneth Searle Davis
Roy Leo Dean
William Clifford Dennis
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Maurice James Dewey
Charles Robert Dimke
John Thomas Dobler
Clifford Downen
Robert Montgomery Dungan
Claude Joseph DuVall, II
Leroy Lewis Dyke
Harry Clyde Echols, Jr.
Bowen Thomas Ehrnman, Jr.
Alvin Dallas Ellis
Harry Barclay Endsley, Jr.
Lewden McCullah Enslen
Orval Wilford Epperson
William Markham Erickson, Jr.
Charles William Estes
Charles Arnold Evans
Robert Fletcher Evans
Donal Forest Ewing
Thomas Mark Fallet
Richard Farrington, Jr.
Lawrence Marion Faulkner
Robert Lloyd Faurot
Arnold Gray Fawks
William Walter Fearn
Charles James Flynn, Jr.
Max Elton Fordyce
Richie Van Winkle Fountain
Christopher Columbus Freeman Edward Wayne Freeman
William Benjamin Frey, Jr.
Harry Robert Gilbert, Jr.
Leon Edward Glascock
Robert Samuel Glaves
Robert Charles Glenn
William Goldstein
William Mortimer Gordon
Robert Frederick Goudie
Philip Gram
Julian Samuel Grant
John William Gregg
Edgar Arthur Greve, Jr.
Everett Willis Griffith
William Montgomery Haines
Haynes Harwood Hall
James Franklin Handley, Jr.
George Clark Harness
Thomas Franklin Harris
Basil Orman Hartwell, Jr.
Everett Roscoe Hathman
Elmer Heath, Jr.
Charles Henry Hechler
Vernon Andrew Heidinger
Grover Frederick Heidlage
William Ogle Heim
Leo Albert Heinrich
Ralph William Heisinger
Thomas B. Henderson, Jr.
Elton Francis Hensel
Berryman Tucker Henwood
Pryor Hesse
Russell Earl Hill
Frank Thomas Hinshaw
William Hugh Hobbs, Jr.
John Evans Hogan
Albert Waldo Holman
Robert Aaron Horwitz
Bert Louis Huber
David Ernest Hudson
Thomas Oliver Hudson
Lew Willis Hughes
Curtis Brown Hurley, II
Frank Hayman Janisch
Edgar Ambrose Jarman
Benjamin Oscar Johnson
Dale Johnson
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Robert Clifford Johnston
Elbert Whitfield Jones, Jr.
Ernest William Jones, Jr.
Ritchie Lee Jones
Robert Andrew Kardash
David Loan Kauffman
Leo Downey Kehoe
Julius Keller
Leo Edmund Kennedy
William Russell Keon, Jr.
William Martin Kern
Rexford Raymond Kinsley
Lawrence Marion Kirk
Stanley Fuhrer Kirschman
Robert Harry Kisor
John Robinson Kitchell
Harry Rudolph Klaus
Harold Edward Knaus
Alvin Fred Koch
Bert Edgar Kullerstrand
Richard Miller Kunder
Joseph Wayne Kuntz
Norman Victor Lane
Owen T. Langen
Robert Lee Lankford
William Ernest Leming, Jr.
Jacob Max Levin
Glen Edwin Lewis
Samuel Green Licklider, Jr.
William Scott Linsday
Luther James Luckett, Jr.
Jack Barry Luitwieler
Donald Carl Lundgren
Donald Melvin Lurie
James Francis McGrath, Jr.
Philip Arthur McGrath
William Carmin McHarg
Max Daniel McNeil
Matthew John McNeill
Harry Howard McPherson, Jr.
Thomas Wilson Mackey
Theodore Wyman Magruder
Robert Harry Marlowe
Alfred James Marsh
Charles William Marsalek
Francis Patchell Martin
John Emil Martinez
Singleton William Mason, Jr.
Oliver Gaines Mathews, Jr.
Charles Lewis Mathis
Charles DeWitt Matsler
Roland Eugene Matson
James Elvis Matteson
Andrew Jackson Matthews
Lyman Andrew Matthews, Jr.
Harris Roy Meadows
Eric Martin Meding
Isidor Meites
John Louis Mersch
Theodore Henry Meyer
Guthrie McNab Miller, Jr.
Charles Allen Mitchell
Jack Mitchell
Charles Roderick Mize
John Elcock Morgan
Fred Locke Morris
Ben Mossel
Dean Gilroy Murphy
Raymond Thomas Murphy
William Francis Murphy, Jr.
Lloyd Ordell Murray
Benjamin Marion Nash
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Evans Gill Nash, Sr.
Robert Nelson Nichols
Gilbert Andrew Nieghorn
Jerome Martin Notowitz
Leroy Leonard Ochs
Frank Exum O’Connor, Jr.
Daniel Leo O’Sullivan, Jr.
Robert Mitchell Oliver
George Willard Olliver, Jr.
Louis Orihuela
George William Otten, Jr.
Archie Roger Pack
Harold Joseph Parkes
Clarence Howard Parkhurst
Newton James Patton
Edwin Clifford Paul
Richard McLeod Pearse
Ernest Edwin Pelkey
John Howard Penisten
Morris Benjamin Penner
Chester Julius Peters
Robert Eugene Peterson
Walter Louis Pfeffer, Jr.
Walter Edward Pierce
Earl Francis Pollock, Jr.
Harold Dee Pontius
George Edwin Porter, Jr.
Raymond Gustavus Powell
William Daniel Powell
John James Pyles, Jr.
Robert Lee Ramsey
Clifford Edward Randol
Stanley Deuane Ray
Porter O’Dell Reece
John Noel Ricker
Guy Thomas Riley
Robert K. Roberts
Oliver Eugene Robinett
Jack Elwood Robinson
Irving Roby
Edward John Rogers, Jr.
Edward John Roos, Jr.
William Ernest Roques
Leslie James Ross, Jr.
Robert Hall Rowland
Albin Valentine Rozman
Edward Basil Ruto
Vaughn E. Salsbury
Stanley Lloyd Sanders
Marion Lee Sapp
Karl Burton Satterfield
Charles Sawers
Kurt Ronald Schaefer
Hudson Matthew Schieber
William Earl Schlueter
Otto Stephen Schmidt, Jr.
Gilbert Ralph Schoener
Robert William Schuttenberg
John Roten Schweitzer
Gerald D. Scott, Jr.
Robert Scruby
Marshall Godfrey Seibel
Robert Bruce Shank
Clay Derrick Shannon
William Boschert Shea
Harley Clarence Shively
Burnell Reed Shy
Elmer Ray Shryock
Carl Henry Silber
Ivor John Siler, Jr.
Lawrence Kern Smarr
Giles James Smith, Jr.
Josephine Mitchell Smith
Marshall Sneed
Earl Lorraine Snell, Jr.
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Maynard Goldman Snell
Harlan Herman Soule
Henry Nelson Spencer
James Edward Spencer
Richard Yeater Stafford
William Robert Stanbury
Lloyd Stickney Stark
Elliot Ernest Stone
William Thomas Stone
Eldon Eugene Stratton
Arthur Summers
Edmund Cornish Suor
Harold Eugene Surbaugh
Delton Lowell Taylor
James Bentley Taylor
Charles Elery Thompson
Thomas Orlo Thompson, Jr.
Ronald Francis Thomson
Joseph Morton Tuttle
Kenneth Elwood Twitty
Robert Frank Van Doren
Frank William Van Horne, Jr.
Joseph Olin Van Osdol
Thomas Scott Vaughan
Hobart Stowe Vincent
John Preston Walker
Standlee Mitchell Ward
William Crim Warner
Richard Jones Waters
Charles L. Waugh
Earl Charles Weidemueller
Edward Weinstein
Irvin Sherman Weintraub
Loren Lee Wells
Clark Earl White
George Allen White, Jr.
Thurman Junior White
William Robert White
William Palen Wilbur
Loren Burnham Wildermuth
John Levere Willoughby
Alvin Clay Windes
William Joseph Winemiller
John Bourbon Wise, Jr.
Ivan Herbert Witt
Russell Newell Woods
William Clay Woods, Jr.
Lawrence L. Wren
John William Yoest
Arch Bryant Young, Jr.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Project Lead Caroline Lanham
Senior Director, Mizzou Alumni Association Tourin’ Tiger Travel Program Director
Project Assistant James Saltat Program Assistant, Mizzou Alumni Association Constituent Relations & Tourin’ Tiger Program
Designer Whitney Pierce Editor Larissa Babiak Booklet printing University Printing Services Photos and content courtesy of: University Archives Mizzou magazine (Missouri Alumnus magazine) In Memoriam booklet American Battle Monuments Commission Normandy American Cemetery Columbia Missourian Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War, War and the Book Trade Oklahoma State University Library Digital Collections Time magazine The entire collection of the Missouri Alumnus and In Memoriam booklet is digitized and can be read online at https://mospace.umsystem.edu.
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World War II 1941-1946 SERVING IN COMBAT BRANCH OF SERVICE
TOTAL SERVING
TOTAL DEATHS
BATTLE DEATHS
OTHER DEATHS
WOUNDED
ALL BRANCHES
16,112,566
405,399
291,557
113,842
671,846
ARMY & AIR FORCE
11,260,000
318,274
234,874
83,400
565,861
NAVY
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62,614
36,950
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37,778
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NON-COMBAT MILITARY SERVICE BRANCH OF SERVICE
TOTAL SERVING
TOTAL DEATHS
WOUNDED
COAST GUARD
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TOTAL MISSOURIANS CASUALTIES: 8,003 TOTAL MIZZOU ALUMNI AND STUDENT CASUALTIES: 338 Profile of US Servicemen (1941-1945) • 38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers • 61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees • Average duration of service: 33 months • Overseas service: 73% served overseas, with an average of 16 months abroad • Combat survivability (out of 1,000): 8.6 were killed in action, 3 died from other causes, and 17.7 received non-fatal combat wounds • Non-combat jobs: 38.8% of enlisted personnel had rear echelon assignments—administrative, support, or manual labor. • Average base pay: enlisted—$71.33 per month; officer—$203.50 per month
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