At Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines, 28 Citadel Men are memorialized on Tablets of the Missing. Another six Citadel Men are interred in the cemetery.
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Frederick William Beidelman, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1943 Lieutenant, U.S. Navy United States Naval Reserve Entered the Service From: Florida Service #: 0-116717 Date of Death: October 26, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart

A naval aviator, he was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for valor in action while flying torpedo bombers. First award on Feb 4 ’43 while in action against a Japanese force of 20 destroyers with air cover from 20-30 fighters. He achieved a direct torpedo hit on one of the destroyers. Second award for action Oct 25 ’44 in the Mindanao Sea while flying against a Japanese force of 2 battleships and 2 destroyers escorted by fighter aircraft. Despite his plane being damaged, he pressed home the attack and achieved a hit on an enemy battleship.

Pope Lott Browne The Citadel, Class of 1933 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 48th Materiel Squadron Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #:O-311340 Date of Death:October 24, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

2Lt. Pope Lott Browne USAAC Citadel ’33 was captured when US and Philippine forces surrendered and was part of the Bataan Death March. He was being transported to Japan aboard the Arisan Maru when she was sunk by a US submarine. His class ring is in the Citadel museum.

Alton Houston Bryant The Citadel, Class of 1940 Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 28th Bomber Squadron, 19th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-411932 Date of Death: January 22, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

2Lt. Bryant was taken prisoner by the Japanese and subsequently placed aboard the Oryoku Maru for transport to Japan. The unmarked ship was attacked and sunk by US aircraft. 100 prisoners died of suffocation or dehydration prior to the sinking. 200 were killed in the bombing or shot in the water as they attempted escape. 16 were subsequently executed by the Japanese. Lt. Bryant’s body was never recovered.

Stephen Munger Byars, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1938 Captain, U.S. Army 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: Georgia Service #: 0-366299 Date of Death: January 12, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Taken prisoner by the Japanese and subsequently died in the Philippines.

See also: Honolulu Punchbowl – National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

William Henderson Coffield, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1941 Corporal, U.S. Army Air Forces 803rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: 34113422 Date of Death: July 09, 1942 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Bataan Death March participant, died at Calauag Tabayas Philippines, body not recovered.

Joseph Plowden Cole The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 80th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: O-396106 Date of Death: July 15, 1942 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Missing in Action over Australia

Wade Rushton Cothran The Citadel, Class of 1916 Major, U.S. Army Headquarters Company, Luzon Force Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-890014 Date of Death: January 25, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Silver Star, Bronze Star

Transferred to and later graduated from West Point. Working in the Philippines in the insurance business, he re-joined the service following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Present for the surrender negotiations that led to the Bataan Death March. Lost during the attack on the Japanese POW ship Brazil Maru.

Walter Guy Efird Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: O-395683 Date of Death: September 07, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Silver Star, Purple Heart

Died as a POW while being transported aboard the Shinyo Maru.

Ralph Palmer Ford The Citadel, Class of 1936 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 91st Coast Artillery Regiment, Philippine Scouts Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: O-341515 Date of Death: January 09, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Survived the sinking of the Japanese POW ship Oryoku Maru, was subsequently loaded aboard the Enoura Maru for transport to Japan. Many of the POWs died due to illness; others in an attack on the ship by US aircraft. Many wounded in the attack were allowed by the Japanese to die of their wounds. Lt. Ford’s body was never recovered.

Claude Jackson Gasque Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1936 Ensign, U.S. Navy United States Naval Reserve Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-119081 Date of Death: August 10, 1943 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

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Lost aboard USS Quincy (CA-39) at the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Herman John Gerdes Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1941 Ensign, U.S. Navy United States Navy Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-282812 Date of Death: January 16, 1946 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Lost with the submarine USS Robalo SS-273 when she sank after hitting a mine 2 miles off the Philippine island of Palawan.

Wilson Glover, III The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: O-397575 Date of Death:January 27, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Silver Star, Purple Heart

Died as POW while being transported to Japan aboard the Brazil Maru. She was transporting survivors of the Enoura Maru sinking.

Albert Keller Godwin The Citadel, Class of 1931 Major, U.S. Army 91st Infantry Regt, 91st Philippine Infantry Division Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-281972 Date of Death: December 15, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Died as a POW in the Philippines. Major Godwin was imprisoned at the infamous Cabanatuan camp. He died when the Ornyki Maru, the Japanese POW ship he was on, was bombed and sunk.

Ernest Scott Haile II The Citadel, Class of 1939 Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army 60th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: New Jersey Service #: 0-404536 Date of Death: September 07, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Died as a POW. He was aboard the Japanese POW ship Shinyo Maru when it was attacked and sunk by the submarine USS Paddle.

Lucius Joseph Jumper The Citadel, Class of 1945 Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces 866th Bomber Squadron, 494th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 34644576 Date of Death: January 02, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

Lost over the Pacific.

John Thomas Leonard, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-395693 Date of Death: January 09, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Died as a POW while being transported aboard the Enoura Maru when she was sunk.

Langdon Dwight Long The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces Army Air Corps Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-401191 Date of Death: June 03, 1942 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

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Long was the pilot of a B-25C bomber assigned to the 11th Bombardment Squadron. On June 3, 1942 he took part in a flight of six B-25s from Dinjan, India to attack Lashio, Burma and then proceed over the Himalayas to a base in Kunming, China. The raid on Lashio was successful and the flight withdrew on course to Kunming at 10,000 feet in a thick overcast. Suddenly, Long’s and two other planes crashed into the side of a mountain. The others barely missed hitting the ground after pulling up sharply. Source: findagrave.com

Jack Alger Mahony, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1938 Lieutenant, U.S. Navy United States Navy Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-082740 Date of Death: July 01, 1943 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

Joy McDowell Marriott, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1945 Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy United States Navy Entered the Service From: Ohio Service #: 8507237 Date of Death: May 25, 1946 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Seaman 1st Class Joy “Joe” M Marriott Jr USN Citadel ’45 enlisted in the Navy and was serving aboard submarine USS Lagarto SS-371 when she was lost with all hands to a Japanese depth charge attack off the Malay coast near the Gulf of Siam.

Joseph Lynn McCarthy The Citadel, Class of 1928 Captain, U.S. Army 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: Utah Service #: 0-250077 Date of Death: January 09, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Died as a POW aboard the Enoura Maru when she sank.

John Isaac Moore III The Citadel, Class of 1940 Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Entered the Service From: Arkansas Service #: 0-395697 Date of Death: October 24, 1944 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Captured in the Philippines and subsequently died aboard the POW ship Arisan Maru en route to Japan.

Lost over Rabaul, New Britain.

Hugh Corbin Rogers The Citadel, Class of 1942 Captain, U.S. Army Air Forces 29th Fighter Squadron, 5th Fighter Group Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-461113 Date of Death: March 27, 1946 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

Photo credit: S. Curry

Lost over China.

Fred Burnham Shifflet, Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1942 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 39th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group Entered the Service From: Ohio Service #: 0-406491 Date of Death: December 20, 1945 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

Lieutenant Shifflet was one of a few American fighter pilots able to get his plane, a borrowed P-40, off the ground during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He made a circle of Pearl Harbor to seek out enemy aircraft, flew over Hickam Field and was filled with “friendly” AA fire. He deadsticked his plane back to Wheeler Field to land on flat tires.

Lieutenant Shifflet and his P-38G Lightning were lost on March 3, 1943, at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. He and two other members of his squadron had shot down five Zeros before they were shot down themselves. Lt. Shifflet’s plane was seen to crash into the sea 20 miles east of Tami Island. He had ten enemy planes to his credit when he was lost. He was officially declared dead on December 20, 1945.

The Fred B. Shifflet memorial scholarship fund was initiated at The Citadel in 1991 from the estate of his mother, Estelle M. Shifflet. The first award was made in 1997.

John Mason Whiting Stulz The Citadel, Class of 1945 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 492nd Bomber Squadron, 7th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From:New Jersey Service #: 0-829332 Date of Death: August 20, 1946 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Air Medal

Stulz was the pilot of B-24J #42-78685. They were flying a cargo of fuel from Tezpur, India over the Himalayas to Kunming, China when they disappeared.

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Benton Armfield Waugh The Citadel, Class of 1943 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Rescue Squadron Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: 0-833447 Date of Death: January 05, 1946 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Air Medal

A flying boat pilot during the war as a member of an emergency rescue squadron, he was lost in a flight over the Philippines.

Henry Purefoy Whitehurst Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1941 Ensign, U.S. Navy United States Navy Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: 0-123437 Date of Death: August 09, 1942 Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Attended The Citadel for a year before transferring to the US Naval Academy from which he graduated in December 1941. He was lost in action aboard the USS Astoria when she was sunk at the Battle of Savo Island. The USS Whitehurst DE-634 was named in his honor.

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Hugh Woodrow Benson The Citadel, Class of 1940 Major, U.S. Army 211th Anti-Aircraft Arty (Automatic Weapons) Battalion Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: 0-024233 Date of Death: September 01, 1945 Buried: Plot H Row 11 Grave 95 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Photo credit: B. Mebane

Killed in an accident while stationed on Leyte Island, Philippines.

Harold Bradford Chandler Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1939 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division Entered the Service From: Georgia Service #: O-379713 Date of Death: December 05, 1942 Buried: Plot A Row 8 Grave 130 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Killed in action in the Philippines.

John Shipp Daniel The Citadel, Class of 1940 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group Entered the Service From: South Carolina Service #: O-411939 Date of Death: October 27, 1942 Buried: Plot A Row 9 Grave 6 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Silver Star

Died as a POW in a Japanese prison camp on Luzon Island, Philippines. John was one of four brothers who graduated from The Citadel. The others were William Henry Daniel, ’37, James Watson Daniel, ’43, a Marine pilot during WWII, and Joseph Caldwell Daniel ’45.

Lindsay Baker Milikin The Citadel, Class of 1939 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment Entered the Service From: Georgia Service #: 0-387344 Date of Death: September 14, 1943 Buried: Plot D Row 6 Grave 233 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart

Died from wounds suffered in combat against the Japanese on New Guinea.

Ernest Ferdinand Peschau Jr. The Citadel, Class of 1939 First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces 431st Bomber Squadron, 11th Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: 0-412950 Date of Death: June 08, 1944 Buried: Plot N Row 16 Grave 76 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines Awards: Purple Heart, Air Medal

Serving as bombardier on a B-24J bomber, he was wounded when the aircraft was shot down and captured by the Japanese. Seriously wounded, he was denied medical care and died of his wounds. He was cremated and buried at a Buddhist temple near Ofuna, Japan. His remains were later recovered and transferred to the Manila American Cemetery.

Charles Henry Sims The Citadel, Class of 1941 Private, U.S. Army Air Forces 899th Base Depot Company Entered the Service From: North Carolina Service #: 34771098 Date of Death: July 12, 1945 Buried: Plot F Row 4 Grave 72 Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines

Served with C Battery, 515th Coast Artillery during the defense of the Philippines. Captured and died of wounds near Manila, Philippines.

Portrait photos courtesy of The Citadel Archive and Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.

With special thanks to Matt Lacina, ’89, who (unless otherwise indicated) photographed all the names and markers during a visit to the Philippines with his family in July 2013. Read Matt’s story about his visit.

Sources: American Battle Monuments Commission, Mike Stannard ’65, The Citadel Archive & Museum, NARA

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