Memorial of our veterans who served America during World War II

ALLEN

FRED RUDOLPH "BILLY" ALLEN, Corporal, U.S. Army, 81st Quarter Masters Training Company, Camp Fort Lee, Virginia was the son of John Ancil Allen and Florence E. Brewer. He was born on 1 January 1927 in Rudy, Arkansas and entered the service on 8 May 1945 at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Fred served one year and six months as a cook and was honorably discharged on 3 November 1946. Fred Allen died in the Sparks Regional Medical Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas on 4 January 2001. He left behind his wife, Corrine (McGee) Allen of Van Buren, Arkansas, two daughters and two sons. One son died as an infant in 1955.

CORBETT

CARL CLEMENT CORBETT, (Summit County, Ohio); my mother and I visited Uncle Carl in the VA hospital near Sandusky, Ohio in 1960. Carl was the son of Arthur Corbett and Clara May Fridinger born in Akron, Summit County, Ohio on August 25, 1900 and died at the age of 63 in a long term care facility near Sandusky on February 12, 1964. He never married. Carl was the brother of my grandfather Arthur Edmund Corbett. Carl C. Corbett, born in 1900 in Ohio, enlisted in the US Army in Akron, Ohio on October 26, 1942.

MILLER

EDWARD MILLER, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Joseph Miller and Maud Nichols. He was born June 3, 1921 in Cass, Franklin Co., Ark., and died July 24, 1982 in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ark. Ed enlisted in Little Rock on August 16, 1941 and was honorably discharged at Norfolk, Virginia on September 13, 1945. He participated action at Guadalcanal, from January 4th to February 19, 1943; then at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands from November 20th to November 23, 1943; he as in the battle at Saipan, Marianas Islands from June 15th to July 8, 1944; finally at Tipian in the Marianas, from July 25th to August 25, 1944. Information taken from his discharge certificate and service record.

WALL

IRA DEFOREST WALL, U.S. Army, Sergeant, 246th Combat Engineer Battalion (1942-1945), enlisted Dec. 1942, discharged November 1945; he received combat stars for campaigns in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe. Among his decorations are the WWII Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge, European African Middle Eastern Campaign, American Campaign Medal, and five Bronze Stars. He was discharged on November 30, 1945 and returned home to Ohio. He was the son of Reason Deforest Wall and Winifred Pearl Tyler and was born August 16, 1914 in Sharon Center, Medina County Ohio and died on January 23, 1996 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. He married Florence Smedley in 1948, had children James, Linda and Susan. Source: Military and Wall Family Records.

RALPH ALLEN WALL, U.S. Army Air Corps, Sergeant; enlisted on January 15, 1942, Los Angeles, California, and discharged on September 15, 1945. Ralph was stationed in Topeka, Kansas and Davis Montham [Air Force Base], Arizona as a refueling specialist on B-17 bombers. He was the son of Reason Deforest Wall and Winifred Pearl Tyler and was born May 26, 1907 in Sharon Center, Medina County Ohio and died on July 5, 2001 in Easton, Kansas. He married Ester Margaret Fitch. They had no children.

VIVIAN ARLIE WALL, U.S. Army, Private, Lybia, Morroco, Italy. He was drafted into the Army on September 10, 1942 and completed intelligence scout training at Mineral Wells, Texas. He departed the United States in April 1943 for North Africa and served in Morocco, Libya, and Italy. During the war he was an intelligence scout and ambulance and light truck driver for the 99th Field Hopital in northern Italy. In November 1945 he returned to the U.S. and was discharged at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania during the general demobilization. His medals included the Good Conduct Medal, Europe, Africa, Middle East Service ribbons with one Bronze Star. Vivian died on March 31, 1946 in the hospital in Lodi, Ohio the day after his car was struck by a switching engine at an unmarked rail road crossing near Creston, Ohio. He left a wife, Clara (Corbett) Wall and two small sons, Ronald and Arthur Wall. He was the youngest child of Reason and Winnie Wall and was born in Sharon Center, Medina County, Ohio on November 11, 1921.

WHITSETT

H. EUGENE "GENE" WHITSITT, U.S. Army Air Corp, Pilot; born on April 17, 1921, in St. Joseph, Mo. After Gene graduated from Lafayette High School, he attended St. Joseph Junior College and was a member of the first Civilian Pilot Training program in St. Joseph. While he was a primary flight instructor for the Air Force in Pine Bluff, Ark., he married his high school sweetheart, Katherine Jesberg, in 1942. He worked as a flight instructor for several years prior to becoming an airline pilot in 1943. His commercial pilot career included employment with TWA, Mid- Continent and finally Braniff International where he retired after 38 years in 1981. H. E. "Gene" Whitsitt, 90, of Reno, Nev., passed away on June 13, 2011.

ROY GENE WHITSETT, U.S. Army, Private, son of James Guy Whitsett and Hessie Malinda Barrett; born December 27, 1921, Crawford County, Arkansas, died, December 21, 1995, Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas. Enlisted in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 13, 1942 for the duration of the war at the rank of Private. No other information on Roy's military service is known at this time.