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Wards III, VI, and IX World War II Honored Dead

1941 • 1945

 
 
Wards III, VI, and IX World War II Honored Dead Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., December 3, 2021
1. Wards III, VI, and IX World War II Honored Dead Memorial
Inscription.
Walter J. Kotarba • Ralph E. Zima • Fred O. Wendel • David T. Walters
John W. Thieman • Robert Silvick • Lester Silfies • Philip Roth
John E. Reiser • Stanley Rajza • Joseph T. Okal • John E. Mullen
Joseph P. McGlynn • George Morgans • Albert Loenthal • Francis Lazorick
Stephen Kutney • Joseph Kucinsky • Alfonso M. Zubres
Charles Dombroski • Raymond Dombroski • Isadore Fierverker
Charles Gelsleichter • William L. Hibbard Jr. • Alexander J. Kelkotka
Malcolm F. McCarty • Anthony Norkunas • William L. Richards
William A. Sendzick • Raymond Sinderaitis • Lawrence Sokolsky
William L. Williams • Thomas G. Schappert • Charles P. Harkins
Stanley Hahula • Delbert James • Stanley Kamont • Lincoln Kennedy
Leonard Kornblau • George Adomitis • Arthur Alinikoff
Floyd Brennan • William Broadley • Metro Butry • William Clocker
Joseph Corrigan • Thomas S. Davies • Frank Dovedytis
John Dubrinski • John Fisher • Morris Goldstein • John Gwynne

"They were a wall unto us both by night and day."
I Saml. 25

 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & PatriotismWar, World II.
 
Location. 41° 14.139′ N,
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75° 52.55′ W. Memorial is in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County. It is at the intersection of Northampton Street and Meade Street, on the left when traveling east on Northampton Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 74 South Meade Street, Wilkes Barre PA 18702, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region and in the Wyoming Valley. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, in Appalachia, and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Ellis W. Roberts, Ph.D. (approx. 0.4 miles away); Wilkes-Barre (approx. half a mile away); St. Mary's High School (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Redington Hotel (approx. 0.6 miles away); Birthplace of the National Federation of the Blind
Wards III, VI, and IX World War II Honored Dead Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., December 3, 2021
2. Wards III, VI, and IX World War II Honored Dead Memorial
On the former First Welsh Presbyterian Church grounds
(approx. 0.6 miles away); Jesse Fell (approx. 0.6 miles away); St. Conrad's Young Men's Society (approx. 0.7 miles away); St. Nicholas R. C. Church (approx. 0.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wilkes-Barre.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 4, 2021. It was originally submitted on December 4, 2021, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 291 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on December 4, 2021, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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