World War II veterans
Following the entry of the United States into World War II in December of 1941, numerous individuals from Albemarle County and Charlottesville served in the American armed forces throughout the course of the conflict.
Harry H. Gaver, who was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma during the surprise Japanese military strike on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was killed in the attack and thus became the first UVA alumnus to die in the war.
Mary Lee Settle, a famous American writer of the twentieth century who lived in Charlottesville and taught courses at the University of Virginia throughout much of her later life, served in both the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the United States Office of War Information (OWI) during the conflict.
Rolls of veterans associated with Albemarle County and Charlottesville
Veterans from Southern Albemarle County
The following is a record of 196 men and women from Southern Albemarle, who served in the U.S. military during World War II. They served in all branches and on all fronts.[1]
| Veterans of World War II from Southern Albemarle | ||
|---|---|---|
| James Edward Agee, Army | Joseph Jasper Agee, Jr., Army | Elizabeth Allen, Navy |
| Benjamin Douglas Anderson, Army | George Grant Anderson, Army | Haden B. Anderson, Marines |
| Francis Austin, Navy | Ernie Lorenza Baber, Army Air Corps | George W. Baber, Army Air Corps |
| Hay Norvell Baber, Army Air Corps | Herbert Morris Baber, Army Air Corps | James Bushrod Baber, Army |
| Luther Edward Baber, Army | Walter Earl Banks, Navy | John Lyman Barnes, Army |
| Lester D. Barnes, Army | George Willie Belton, Army | Alice Black, Army Air Forces |
| Bernard K. Boling, Army | Bland Boling, Army | Frank William Boling, Army Air Forces |
| Joseph F. Boling, Army | Ken Bransom, Army | Charles Bernard Brown, Navy |
| James A. Brown, Army | Samuel Leroy Brown, Marine Corps | James Frank Bruce, Army |
| Wilson Alonzo Bruce, Army | Charles Hill Bryant, Army | Stinson Bryant, Army |
| Thomas J. Bugg, Jr., Army | Earl Vivian Butler, Army | Forrest O'Brien Butler, Army |
| Beirne Blair Carter, Army | Richard Sherwood Cass, Navy | Ovander Chambers, Navy |
| George Brockman Cleveland, Navy | Allen Hamilton Cobb, Navy | Thomas Lloyd Cobb, Army |
| Milton Cohen, Army Air Forces | Norman Cohen, Army | Gerald Vance Cole, Army |
| Robert Wilson Coleman, Navy | John Coletrain, Army | Gary Frank Coletrane, Army |
| Andrew Jefferson Collins, Army | Elwood Leroy Collins, Navy | Carl LaRue Combs, Army Air Forces |
| William Daniel Copeland, Army | Alan Hilbert Crenshaw, Navy | Woodrow Harris Crenshaw, Navy |
| Clarence Ivery Davis, Navy | John W. Deeds, Army | Charles Richard Dorrier, Jr., Army |
| James Lee Dorrier, Army | John Pitts Dorrier, Army | Lindsay Gordon 'Chick' Dorrier, Navy |
| Willie Glen Duncan, Army | David Emmett Easton, Army | James Austin Easton, Army |
| John William Easton, Army | Lawrence Wallace Easton, Army | Richard Franklin Easton, Army |
| John Corbett Farrish, Army | Harry Friedman, Jr., Army | Leon W. Friedman, Navy |
| Raymond Franklin Gentry, Jr., Army | David Clark Glass, Army Air Forces | Howard Overton Golladay, Army |
| Allen Gooden, Army Air Forces | William Jennings Goodwin, Army | Raymond Arehart Grandstaff, Army |
| Jesse Barrett Grove, Jr., Navy | Eugene Warren Hamshar, Army | Harry Harris, Army |
| William Leslie Harrison, Navy | Edward Early Herndon, Navy | Lindsay Allen Herndon, Army |
| Wilbert Bernice Herndon, Army | Carl Ellis Holt, Navy | George Stark Howard, Army |
| Thomas B. Hudson, Army Air Forces | Robert R. Hunter, Army | John Archie Jackson, Army |
| Charles Benjamin Johnson, Navy | Erastus Johnson, Army | Gilbert Leslie Johnson, Navy |
| Jesse Augustus Johnson, Army | John Henry Johnson, Army | Leonard S. Johnson, Army |
| Robert Lee Johnson, Army | William Howard Johnson, Army | James Atwell Jones, Army |
| William Raymond Jones, Army Air Forces | Allen Andrew Kidd, Navy | Jackson Dillard Kidd, Army Air Forces |
| William Sebald Frank Lenherr, Navy | John Courtland Lewis, Army | Clyde Ursell McCary, Navy |
| Benjamin Webster McGuire, Army | David Lee McGuire, Army | John Woodrow McGuire, Navy |
| Paul Joseph McGuire, Army | Clarence Sharkey Massie, Army | Benjamin Franklin Meadows, Army |
| Charles William Meadows, Army | Malcolm H. Melton, Army | Dick Brent Mills, Army |
| Cary Nelson Moon, Jr., Navy | Frank Russell Moon, Navy | Lawrence A. Moon, Army |
| Samuel Rufus Moon, Navy | Nelson "Elson" Charles Morris, Navy | James Taylor Morris, Army |
| John Lacy Morris, Jr. Army | Claude Robert Marvin Mowbray, Marine Corps | Cleo Brent Munday, Army |
| Isaac Cash Mondy, Navy | Walter Watson Murray, Army | Alfred Nelson Napier, Army |
| Claude Stinson Napier, Army | Luther Thomas Napier, Army | Richard Robert Newton, Navy |
| Haywood Nelson, Jr., Navy | Wilson Skipper Nelson, Jr., Army | George Hampden Nicholas, Army Air Forces |
| Ernest Haven O'Brien, Army | Claude Leonard Pace, Jr., Army | David Clinton Palmer, Marine Corps |
| James Dudley Palmer, Army | Adam Sylvester Payne, Navy | Edward Ambrose Payne, Sr., Navy |
| George Samuel Payne, Navy | Frank Dabney Peregoy, Army | James Gordon Pitts, Army Air Forces |
| Eugene Pritchard Pollard, Army | Felix Richard Pollard, Navy | Lester Howard Pollard, Army |
| Sidney Randolph Pugh, Sr., Army | Charles Turner Ragland, Army Air Forces | Dawson Bill Ray, Army |
| Lewis Edward Rhodes, Army | Lena Rivers Robertson, Army | Dandgure Henry Robinson, Army |
| Lynwood Waddell Robinson, Army | Eugene Sykes Scherman, AFS and Army | William Paul Schneider, Army |
| David Wilson Schumaker, Marine Corps | Herman Lee Scott, Army | Percy E. Scott, Army |
| Thomas Pierson Scott, Army | Margaret Ann Sells, Office of Strategic Services | Irene Thornton Baber Sheild, Women's Army Corps |
| Albert Lewis Shumaker, Marine Corps | Frank Walter Shumaker, Navy | Charles William Smith, Army |
| Otis Stanley Smith, Army | Andrew Harrison Snead, Army | William Tapscott Snead, Army |
| James Henry Snoddy, Army | Thomas Randolph Snoddy, Navy | Samuel Ayres Spencer Jr., Army Air Forces |
| Everett Sturm, Navy | Preston Swingler, Navy | Rockwell Swingler, Army |
| Thomas Edward Swingler, Army | Roger F. Tapscott, Army | Paul W. Thomas, Army |
| Henry Lewis Thompson, Army | James Edward Thompson, Navy | Joseph Franklin Thompson, Army |
| Mack L. Townsend, Army | Marshall Owen Townsend, Army | Stuart Walter Townsend, Army |
| Tate Rance Townsend, Army | Theodore Roosevelt Townsend, Army | Carlyle Ashton Trice, Army |
| Charles Albert Trice, Army Air Forces | Joseph Lacy Trice, Army | Laurence Turner Trice, Army |
| Obediah Ashton Trice, Jr., Navy | Robert Holmes Trice, Navy | Martin Roberts Turner, Army |
| Alfred Van Allen, Army | Kenneth Edward Van Allen, Navy | Roland Louis Van Allen, Army |
| Russell Clifford Van Allen, Army Air Forces | Dean Lewis Wakefield, Army | Donna Ruth Wakefield, Army |
| Larry Willard Wakefield, Merchant Marines | Zachary Taylor Wakefield, Navy | Frayser Caldwell White, Army |
| Walter Pleasants White, Army | Sandy Winfrey, Army | Arthur Jenkins Wood, Army |
| Francis Wood, Army | Gordon Wood, Army | Hunter Calvin Woody, Navy |
Field nurses
During the war, the University of Virginia maintained the 8th Evacuation Hospital, serving Allied troops attached to the Fifth Army (which operated in North Africa and Italy from 1943 to 1945).[2] This 750-bed mobile hospital unit was primarily staffed by physicians and nurses who had attended the university, including First Lieutenant Alice M. Huffman (Class of 1938). In her memoirs that detailed her time serving with this unit, Huffman wrote,
"Being night supervisor in winter was a challenge. There were 20 some wards, and to make rounds twice during the 12-hour shift took a bit of stamina. We were always in a black-out area, which meant we could not use a flashlight. In good weather it wasn't too bad, but when there was sleet or snow, it was miserable... Someone once said that living through a war is the most wonderful experience in your life. Of course it's a terrible thing, but over time you forget the bad and remember the good. I got to travel and meet people I would never have gotten to meet otherwise. The whole thing was hard work, but we were with our best friends, and that made it a lot easier."
| Officers and nurses who served with the 8th Evacuation Hospital unit[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dr. John L. Guerrant (Medical Ward Officer & Clinical Laboratory Director) | Ruth Beery (Chief Nurse) | William P. Snavely (Assistant Registrar) |
| Frank L. Lowther (Technician Fifth Grade) | Randal Luscombe (Technician Fifth Grade, Utility Shop) | Dorothy Sandridge (Nurse anesthetist) |
| Beverley P. Tucker (Technician Fifth Grade, Chaplain's Assistant) | Dr. Hubert B. Holsinger (Surgeon) | Melvin C. Shaffer (Photographer) |
| Margaret McGown | Margaret Ford | Mary Ellen Gibson |
| Elizabeth Wiseman | Langhorne Cloyd | Mayme Griffitts |
| Ruth Eastman | Eula Wright | Minnie Lee Dozier |
| Mamie Donley | Margery Stulting | Frances Thomas |
| Addie Roadcap | Nova Dowd | Mamie Kidd |
| Ella Gillespie | Kenneth Grim | Preston Trousdale |
| William Norman Thornton | Beverley Hairfield | William Edgar Waddell |
| James Richmond Low | John Coleman | John Rogers Mapp |
| William Laird | Jane Anderson | Helen Gilkerson |
| Henry Mayo | Leon Culbertson | E. Cato Drash |
| Staige D. Blackford | John McNeel | Byrd S. Leavell |
| Edwin Shearburn | Albert Gillespie | Linus Miller |
| Raymond Monin | Beverley Hairfield | William Driscoll |
| Edwin Mulford | Herbert Smith | George Northrup |
| Samuel Casscells | Francis Ross | John Morris |
| Sigfrid Kinkopf | Asa Scarborough | Kenneth Grim |
| William Edgar Waddell | Joseph Beck | John Haley |
| William Suhling | Samuel Windham | Thomas Payne |
| Donald Marshall | James Culbertson | Richard Bell |
| Alfred Den | William Hill | Harris Holmboe |
| Lincoln Putnam | Reynold Siersema | Prentice Kinser |
| Maurice LeBauer | Joseph Winthrop | Raymond Lynch |
| Elijah Jenkins | Francis Churchill | Rex Blessing |
| Robert Weller | John Murrian | Margaret S. Hornbarger |
| Frances Houston | Rebecca Dofflemeyer | Alice Eagle |
| Hilda Franklin | F. Jean Williams | Kate Robinson |
| Thelma Matthews | Alice Law | Angela Brusati |
| Dora Guglielmetti | C. Elizabeth Johnson | Lottie Gibson |
| Mabel Ayers | Beatrice Ramsey | Lallah Edwards |
| Margaret Petersen | Clara Orsini | Lucille White |
| Ann Mickle | Mary Jane McCone | Madge Darden |
| Christine Mills | Elizabeth Harlin | Addie Roadcap |
| Cathleene Carter | Mildred Smith | Helen Berkeley |
| Ruby Armstrong | Annie L. Dickson | Emma Garland |
| Myrtle Hatcher | Margaret Phillips | Elizabeth Engleman |
References
- ↑ Web. Scottsville Area WWII Veterans, Scottsville Museum, 2018
- ↑ Web. The 8th Evacuation Hospital, University of Virginia, 2007
- ↑ Web. The 8th Evacuation Hospital: Supplemental Pictures of Officers and Nurses, University of Virginia, 2007