The Lost Takodians of The Second World War

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SSgt. Lawrence Alfred Robinson, U.S. Army Air Forces

Born 1916; CT 1 1928; KIA 1942

PM2c. Gale Phillip Newell, U.S. Navy

Born 1918; CT 3 1933; KIA 1942

Lt. (jg) Raymond Miley Krepps, Jr., U.S. Navy

Born 1919; CT 1 1931; KIA 1942

QM3c. Phillip Douglas Parady, U.S. Navy

Born 1922; CT 4 1937; KIA 1943

Lt. Leonard Abbot Merrill, U.S. Army

Born 1917; CT 2 1930; KIA 1944

PFC. Robert Douglas Lancey, U.S. Army

Born 1920; CT 7 1941; DNB* 1944

PFC. Chester Lyman Kingsbury, Jr., U.S. Army

Born: 1923; CT 2 1933; KIA 1944

2Lt. William Thomas Burrows, Jr., U.S. Army Air Forces

Born: 1925; CT 1 1936; KIA 1944

SSgt. Robert Henry Slade, U.S. Army

Born: 1916; CT 5 1932; KIA 1945

RM3c. George Frederick Toomey, U.S. Navy

Born: 1925; CT 3 1937; KIA 1945

Cpl. Frederick Allen Stearns, U.S. Army Air Forces

Born: 1925; CT 1 1936; KIA 1945

PM2c. Thomas Aaron Eaton, U,S. Navy

Born: 1925; CT 3 1942; DNB* 1946

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Author’s Letter – J. Graeme Noseworthy, 30th President & Historian, Takodah YMCA

Author’s Letter – Senior Chief Petty Officer Timothy L. Francis, United States Navy

*DNB – “Died Non Battle.” Individual died while in service but not in combat.