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According to Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, Pvt. Victor D. Fountain was killed on January 12, 1945, while serving with 329th Infantry, 83rd Division. A photo of Pvt. Fountain's grave can be found at this…

According to Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, Pfc. Claudie M. Hutchins was killed on August 11, 1944, while serving with Company A, 12th Infantry, 4th Division, 2nd Battalion of the United States Army.A…

Sgt. Ross F. Gray was killed on February 27, 1945, while serving with Company A, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Division on Iwo Jima. An obituary from the Birmingham News for Sgt. Gray can be ordered from this site:…

Coxswain J.C. Coggins was killed on October 24, 1944 when his ship the USS Samuel B. Roberts was sunk off the coast of Samar. Coxswain Coggins' name can be found on the list of those whose remains were not recovered at the end of World War II at this…

According to Blocton: A History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams, SSgt. Neil Holland was killed on November 21, 1944, while serving with the United States Army on Mindinao. Sgt. Holland was listed on this site of those whose remains were…

According to the book Blocton: A History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams, Pvt. Richard Howard Moon was killed on February 26, 1945, during the battle of Iwo Jima. When Pvt. Moon's remains were returned to West Blocton in 1948, it is…

According to the book Blocton: A History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams, Pfc. Rufus Cristo Lagrone became the last of the West Blocton men killed in Europe when he was killed on March 6, 1945. According to this site: Ancestry.com.…

According to the book Blocton: A History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams and to Mrs. Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Sgt. John Raymond Lawrence was killed on March 17, 1943, during a training flight over Eglin Field in Florida. Sgt. Lawrence…

According to the book Blocton: A History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams, Pvt. Thomas Finnen died on September 4, 1944, when a weapon in a nearby tent discharged killing Pvt. Finnen. A photo of Pvt. Finnen's grave can be found at this…

According to the book Blocton: A History of Alabama Coal Mining Town by Carl Adams, Pfc. George E. Burt was killed on March 24, 1945, during a parachute jump of the 17th Airborne Division. According to this source: Ancestry.com. Alabama, WWII…