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Cambridge American Cemetery

This site was primarily intended to establish the names of those individuals who had, until now, remained unrecognised. Despite this, it would be inappropriate not to include the names of the 72 brave young Americans of the 356th Fighter Group of the United States Eighth Army Air Force who made the ultimate sacrifice whilst serving at Martlesham Heath between the 5th of October 1943 and the 2nd of November 1945. Several of the entries state that the serviceman was buried in a particular location “originally”. This information was taken from the 356th Fighter Group Book of Remembrance written in 1946. It was often the case that they were reinterned elsewhere in the immediate post war years and this is considered a possibility.

They were motivated and honourable young men prepared to leave their families and all they held dear behind them to travel many thousands of miles in order to face an exceptionally dangerous enemy. They lost many friends and comrades which only served to remind them daily, in the strongest possible terms, that many of them would never return home.

It is due to the exceptionally high price paid by men like these, and of course their loved ones, and the untold sacrifices and exceptional physical and emotional hardships they endured that we are able to enjoy the freedom we do today.

I would respectfully invite visitors to this page to please take some time reading each name and at the end spend a minute or two quietly contemplating the gravity of their individual sacrifices.

Thank you.

              The Kohima Epitaph

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

                                 John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958)

Rank

Forenames

Name

1st Lieutenant

Louis G.

Alphonse

1st Lieutenant

Richard J.

Andrino

1st Lieutenant

Benjamin B.

Barnes

1st Lieutenant

Walter M.

Baskin

2nd Lieutenant

DeWitt T.

Bell Jr.

1st Lieutenant

William C.

Boucek

Flight Officer

Everett L.

Brock

1st Lieutenant

William F.

Brown

2nd Lieutenant

John L.

Bruce

1st Lieutenant

Robert E.

Carr

1st Lieutenant

William W.

Cotter

2nd Lieutenant

Robert A.

Coughenour Jr.

1st Lieutenant

Thomas E.

Creevy

Flight Officer

Edmund L.

Decker

2nd Lieutenant

James A.

Des Jardins

2nd Lieutenant

Carl W.

Dunn

1st Lieutenant

Raymond W.

Engle

Captain

Byron A.

Evans

2nd Lieutenant

Raymond C.

Fortner

Captain

Raymond H.

Gansberg

2nd Lieutenant

John H.

Garlent

Private

Andrew P.

Girasek

1st Lieutenant

Shirley J.

Green

Captain

Claude Jefferson

Hackney Jr.

2nd Lieutenant

Vance C.

Harney

2nd Lieutenant

Elijah P.

Harris

2nd Lieutenant

William R.

Hayden

1st Lieutenant

Justus D.

Henry

Captain

Willis A.

Holm

1st Lieutenant

Thomas

Holzhausen

1st Lieutenant

Milton H.

Huebner

Captain

Paul H.

Hyde Jr.

1st Lieutenant

Shelby N.

Jett

1st Lieutenant

William E.

Johnson

1st Lieutenant

Lester H.

Knapp

2nd Lieutenant

Casimir F.

Krowiak

2nd Lieutenant

Chester W.

Lawrence

1st Lieutenant

Edward P

Lee

1st Lieutenant

Robert M.

Leidy

2nd Lieutenant

Henry L.

Lewis

2nd Lieutenant

Dolor A.

Martin

2nd Lieutenant

Jonnie F.

Martin

1st Lieutenant

Wallace G.

Maxwell

1st Lieutenant

Preston W.

McKeon

1st Lieutenant

Allen M.

Metzger

2nd Lieutenant

Joseph W.

Mills

2nd Lieutenant

Grant F.

Moyer

1st Lieutenant

Wendel J. A.

Nelson

2nd Lieutenant

Joseph

Obolosa

1st Lieutenant

Ralph E.

Odenwald

2nd Lieutenant

Ernest M.

Parham

1st Lieutenant

James H.

Perry

1st Lieutenant

James T.

Price

1st Lieutenant

Rolland W.

Racine

1st Lieutenant

Raleigh S.

Ragsdale

1st Lieutenant

Richard J.

Rensch

1st Lieutenant

Harry F.

Rideout

1st Lieutenant

Paul J.

Roberts Jr.

Flight Officer

Willard W.

Royer

1st Lieutenant

Louis B.

Runyan

1st Lieutenant

Russell Conrad

Scharnberg

2nd Lieutenant

Henry C.

Scott

1st Lieutenant

Eldon L.

Slanker

2nd Lieutenant

Jack T.

Smith

1st Lieutenant

R. J.

Stone

Captain

John B.

Stratford Jr.

2nd Lieutenant

Thomas D.

Teel

2nd Lieutenant

John R.

Tillman

Captain

William F.

Traupe

Flight Officer

John P.

Tucker

1st Lieutenant

Bernard A.

Tuckey

2nd Lieutenant

Richard B.

Warren

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