Joseph Arthur O’Connell
The O’Connell family’s roots were in Morris, Illinois, a rural community 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The family had fraternal twins in 1894, Art and Alice, although Art’s given name…
Read MoreFrank Morris Fink
Frank was born in the little residential borough of Sharon Hill in southeastern Delaware County. He was born to Walter and Sara, the fifth of eight children, and named after…
Read MorePaul Edward Culbertson
Collingswood, New Jersey was Paul’s hometown although his parents were Philadelphians whose lineage were Irish and German. They made their home in the Garden State suburb because his father’s lifelong…
Read MoreRichard Albert Moffitt
Richard was raised with an older brother and sister, Fred and Florence, by their parents, Charles and Sarah. The Moffitt house was on Larchwood Street, just around the corner from…
Read MoreThomas Ingles Tankard, Jr.
A soldier’s mother knows a special kind of pain, and Thomas’ mother was all too familiar with grief. Clara Kamm suffered the loss of two infant children and her first…
Read MoreNicholas Vito Spagna
Three younger brothers and two younger sisters looked up to Nicholas as they grew up in the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia. He was born on November 5, 1915,…
Read MoreHoward Edwin Orr
Howard was among the first to attend the new John Bartram High School just a few blocks south of here after it opened in 1939. He was on the football…
Read MoreWilliam Howard McNutt
This Philadelphia native served his country for almost eleven years, starting right after he got married in 1940. Bill was an only child whose father died in 1937 and step-mother…
Read MoreWilliam John McNeill
William grew up in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia less than a block east of the Schuylkill River. His parents, Albert and Annie, rented a row house for their…
Read MoreWilliam Thomas McKnight, Jr.
He was known as Bill, and as “Mac” by his buddies. The senior class at West Philadelphia High School chose to remember him and Josephine Maas as “best looking,” earning…
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