Terre Haute in Vigo County, Indiana — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

World War II Memorial

Vigo County Indiana

World War II War Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf

1. World War II War Memorial Marker

Inscription.

World War II Memorial. Vigo County Indiana. ( Front )W. W. II Killed in Action from Vigo County. ( Obverse ) ( Row One ), Lawrence Aaren . Ray E. Adams . William H. Altekruse . Charles V. Anderson . Warren C. Anderson . Wayne W. Anderson . Adolph P. Antoine . William R. Armstrong . Charles J. Atwood, Jr. . Guido Baratto . Joseph J. Beal . Eugene I. Beaucamp . James W. Bedwell . Howard H. Bird . Norman B. Bitzegaio . James R. Blue . Frank A. Bouillez . William G. Bovenschulte . William J. Boyle . John H. Brettell . Vincent Brimley . Herschel C. Brown, Jr. . Jack W. Brown . Roy W. Brown . James M. Bruce . Merle E. Bryant . Daniel C. Burke, Jr. . Joseph M. Burok . Robert E. Burton . Max E. Bush . Leonard J. Butts . Richard D. Callecod . Joseph E. Campbell . Edward Caton . Warren W. Causey . Martin H. Certain . Charles W. Cheek . Harry S. Church . Alfred H. Conrad . Leon A. Conrath . Robert O. Cordell . Frank W. Cornwell . Bruce V. Cox . John W. Crawford . William H. Creasey . Charles R. Cree . George A. Crock . Jack W. Cromwell . Wayne Crynes . Daniel F. Curran . Harold F. Daggs . Norman L. Daily . John Daly, Jr. . James E. Davis . Joseph C. Davis . Harold J. Day . Eugene L. DeLisle . Joseph D. Deak, Jr. . Philip A. Deal . Rollie G. Dean . Harold J. Deuster . Carl E. Dickerson . Jacob O. Dooley . Vernon T. Dorsey . Samuel Dowell . Clarence L. Dreher, Jr. . R. G. Dronberger, Jr. . Tom Dwyer . William H. East . Robert M. Edwards . Robert K. Enders . Steve J. Evon . Carl L. Ewing . Paul R. Fenton . Robert J. Field . Bruce D. Figg . Everett E. Figg . Leroy F. Foltz . John R. Forsythe . Richard A. Fox . Roscoe L. Frakes . Roland Frost . Fredrick G. Fry . Billie E. Gilbert . Edward D. Goetz . George L. Gray . Oscar M. Griffin . Kenneth O. Haas . Farrell D. Hale . Jack M. Haley . Freeman M. Newman ------------ ( Row Two ) William Hamman . Oral B. Hamrick . Charles R. Hargis . Warren G. Harris . Harold W. Hart . Karl F. J. Heckelsberg . James N. Hicks . Willard H. Hixon . Herman A. Hoffman, Jr. . Russell J. Hogan . Charles Holland . James R. Hougm . John R. Householder . Lyle O. Hucle . James Hughbanks . Joe J. Hunt . Walter W. Huston . Benson O. Jackson . Paul E. James . Tom E. James . Malcolm W. Jones . Edward L. Jordan . John L. Joy . Herbert Kaufman . Paul O. Kemp . Matt Kennedy . Milton J. Kersey . Lester W. Killion . Leroy A. King . Otis King . Victor W. Kirk . Ralph C. Klatte . Walter F. Knollenberg . John Kohl . Edward Kosterno . Michael J. Kruse . Billy J. Lark . Edward B. Leever . Lawrence L. Lewark . Fred Lisch . Bernard L. Locsdon . Robert B. Longfellow . Harry R. Luce . John V. Lundstrom . George U. Malloy . Ernest M. Mansard, Jr. . Harry R. Marshall . John P. Martin . Wilbur Marts . Paul M. Mascari . Floyd Maxwell . Richard C. Mayrose . Bruce Mays . Raymond McCrananhan . John R. McCune . Harry W. McKain . Daniel L. McKinney . Frank Meeran . Cleo D. Miller . William L. Miller . Fred J. Moelter . Joseph H. Monaghan . Paul F. Morrison . W. C. Morrison, Jr. . Eugene C. Mount . Charles H. Murphy . Alfred W. Myers . John R. Myles . George M. Needham . Charles L. Newman . Wayne E. Newton . Owen T. O’Neil . William E. O’Rear . Frank D. Osborne . Stanley Ozok . Charles E. Payne . George H. Payne . John S. Pegg . Harold W. Penny . George L. Peters . Charles R. Phillips . Vern E. Piker . Joseph Papinchock . James D. Pollitt . Bernard M. Powers . Kenneth B. Quilliam . Dennis J. Quinlan . Victor R. Raikes . John J. Rak . Oren F. Randall -------- ( Row Three ) Benjamin N. Rauch, Jr. . James C. Rea . Henry F. Reedy . Frank L. Roales . Cornelius F. Roberts . Roy C. Roberts . Arthur N. Robertson . John R. Robinson . George T. Roby . Frank T. Roclitz . Donald W. Roper . James W. Ross . Jacob R. Roush, Jr. . Floyd W. Runnels . Harold W. Sanders . Layman M. Sanders . Charles H. Sasseen . Raymond L. Scahrbrough . Robert L. Scarbrough . Joseph E. Schell . Lawrence Schimmel . Harold E. Schommer . Clarence Searcy, Jr. . August C. Sieferman . Earl R. Shelburn . William W. Sherwood . Thomas S. Shestack . Richard L. Shipe . John E. Shoaf . Richard Silcock . Eugene B. Smith . Francis J. Smith . George R. Smith . George W. Smith, Jr. . John C. Smith, Jr. . Pete Smith . Raymond A. Smith . Robert E. Smolten . Albert C. Sparks . Charles Spork . Walter R. Staggs . Beryl H. Steele . Charles R. Stewart . Lawrence A. Stewart . Robert E. Stewart . Henry A. Stryken . Frank J. Stuck . Warren L. Stump . Kalyd M. Tarrh . Beryl E. Tarwater . Paul L. Thompson . John Thomson, Jr. . J. J. Thornberry, Jr. . Roy Tindall . William R. Tirey . Jacob L. Travis . Hobart Tryon . William W. Tryon . Clarence S. Tucker . John H. Vaughan . Joseph T. Wade . Wayne Wade . Carl W. Waggoner . Ernest E. Walters . Richard E. Weaver . Horace W. Weese . Stephen Weiss . Charles J. Wells . Raymond W. Wenzel . Charles F. Whalen . William E. Whalen . Rex A. Wheat . Bernard E. Whitaker . Russell O. Whitesell . Niles J. A. Widding . William Wilford . Frederick W. Williams . George Williams . Harry C. Williams . James A. Williams . Norman L. Williford . William D. Williford . Donnis W. Willis . John O. Wilson . Milton L. Wolfangle . William M. Woodard . Maurice F. Wren . Ermyle E. Young . Everett W. Zellers . Fred W. Zope -------

( Front )W. W. II
Killed in Action
from Vigo County
( Obverse )
( Row One )

Lawrence Aaren • Ray E. Adams • William H. Altekruse • Charles V. Anderson • Warren C. Anderson • Wayne W. Anderson • Adolph P. Antoine • William R. Armstrong • Charles J. Atwood, Jr. • Guido Baratto • Joseph J. Beal • Eugene I. Beaucamp • James W. Bedwell • Howard H. Bird • Norman B. Bitzegaio • James R. Blue • Frank A. Bouillez • William G. Bovenschulte • William J. Boyle • John H. Brettell • Vincent Brimley • Herschel C. Brown, Jr. • Jack W. Brown • Roy W. Brown • James M. Bruce • Merle E. Bryant • Daniel C. Burke, Jr. • Joseph M. Burok • Robert E. Burton • Max E. Bush • Leonard J. Butts • Richard D. Callecod • Joseph E. Campbell • Edward Caton • Warren W. Causey • Martin H. Certain • Charles W. Cheek • Harry S. Church • Alfred H. Conrad • Leon A. Conrath • Robert O. Cordell • Frank W. Cornwell • Bruce V. Cox • John W. Crawford • William H. Creasey • Charles R. Cree • George A. Crock • Jack W. Cromwell • Wayne Crynes • Daniel F. Curran • Harold F. Daggs • Norman L. Daily • John Daly, Jr. • James E. Davis • Joseph C. Davis • Harold J. Day

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• Eugene L. DeLisle • Joseph D. Deak, Jr. • Philip A. Deal • Rollie G. Dean • Harold J. Deuster • Carl E. Dickerson • Jacob O. Dooley • Vernon T. Dorsey • Samuel Dowell • Clarence L. Dreher, Jr. • R. G. Dronberger, Jr. • Tom Dwyer • William H. East • Robert M. Edwards • Robert K. Enders • Steve J. Evon • Carl L. Ewing • Paul R. Fenton • Robert J. Field • Bruce D. Figg • Everett E. Figg • Leroy F. Foltz • John R. Forsythe • Richard A. Fox • Roscoe L. Frakes • Roland Frost • Fredrick G. Fry • Billie E. Gilbert • Edward D. Goetz • George L. Gray • Oscar M. Griffin • Kenneth O. Haas • Farrell D. Hale • Jack M. Haley • Freeman M. Newman
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( Row Two )
William Hamman • Oral B. Hamrick • Charles R. Hargis • Warren G. Harris • Harold W. Hart • Karl F. J. Heckelsberg • James N. Hicks • Willard H. Hixon • Herman A. Hoffman, Jr. • Russell J. Hogan • Charles Holland • James R. Hougm • John R. Householder • Lyle O. Hucle • James Hughbanks • Joe J. Hunt • Walter W. Huston • Benson O. Jackson • Paul E. James • Tom E. James • Malcolm W. Jones • Edward L. Jordan • John L. Joy • Herbert Kaufman • Paul O. Kemp • Matt Kennedy • Milton J. Kersey

Obverse Side - - World War II War Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.

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2. Obverse Side - - World War II War Memorial Marker

• Lester W. Killion • Leroy A. King • Otis King • Victor W. Kirk • Ralph C. Klatte • Walter F. Knollenberg • John Kohl • Edward Kosterno • Michael J. Kruse • Billy J. Lark • Edward B. Leever • Lawrence L. Lewark • Fred Lisch • Bernard L. Locsdon • Robert B. Longfellow • Harry R. Luce • John V. Lundstrom • George U. Malloy • Ernest M. Mansard, Jr. • Harry R. Marshall • John P. Martin • Wilbur Marts • Paul M. Mascari • Floyd Maxwell • Richard C. Mayrose • Bruce Mays • Raymond McCrananhan • John R. McCune • Harry W. McKain • Daniel L. McKinney • Frank Meeran • Cleo D. Miller • William L. Miller • Fred J. Moelter • Joseph H. Monaghan • Paul F. Morrison • W. C. Morrison, Jr. • Eugene C. Mount • Charles H. Murphy • Alfred W. Myers • John R. Myles • George M. Needham • Charles L. Newman • Wayne E. Newton • Owen T. O’Neil • William E. O’Rear • Frank D. Osborne • Stanley Ozok • Charles E. Payne • George H. Payne • John S. Pegg • Harold W. Penny • George L. Peters • Charles R. Phillips • Vern E. Piker • Joseph Papinchock • James D. Pollitt • Bernard M. Powers • Kenneth B. Quilliam • Dennis J. Quinlan • Victor R. Raikes • John J. Rak • Oren F.

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3. Left View - - World War II War Memorial Marker

Randall
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( Row Three )
Benjamin N. Rauch, Jr. • James C. Rea • Henry F. Reedy • Frank L. Roales • Cornelius F. Roberts • Roy C. Roberts • Arthur N. Robertson • John R. Robinson • George T. Roby • Frank T. Roclitz • Donald W. Roper • James W. Ross • Jacob R. Roush, Jr. • Floyd W. Runnels • Harold W. Sanders • Layman M. Sanders • Charles H. Sasseen • Raymond L. Scahrbrough • Robert L. Scarbrough • Joseph E. Schell • Lawrence Schimmel • Harold E. Schommer • Clarence Searcy, Jr. • August C. Sieferman • Earl R. Shelburn • William W. Sherwood • Thomas S. Shestack • Richard L. Shipe • John E. Shoaf • Richard Silcock • Eugene B. Smith • Francis J. Smith • George R. Smith • George W. Smith, Jr. • John C. Smith, Jr. • Pete Smith • Raymond A. Smith • Robert E. Smolten • Albert C. Sparks • Charles Spork • Walter R. Staggs • Beryl H. Steele • Charles R. Stewart • Lawrence A. Stewart • Robert E. Stewart • Henry A. Stryken • Frank J. Stuck • Warren L. Stump • Kalyd M. Tarrh • Beryl E. Tarwater • Paul L. Thompson • John Thomson, Jr. • J. J. Thornberry, Jr. • Roy Tindall • William R. Tirey • Jacob L. Travis • Hobart Tryon • William W. Tryon

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4. Right View - - World War II War Memorial Marker

• Clarence S. Tucker • John H. Vaughan • Joseph T. Wade • Wayne Wade • Carl W. Waggoner • Ernest E. Walters • Richard E. Weaver • Horace W. Weese • Stephen Weiss • Charles J. Wells • Raymond W. Wenzel • Charles F. Whalen • William E. Whalen • Rex A. Wheat • Bernard E. Whitaker • Russell O. Whitesell • Niles J. A. Widding • William Wilford • Frederick W. Williams • George Williams • Harry C. Williams • James A. Williams • Norman L. Williford • William D. Williford • Donnis W. Willis • John O. Wilson • Milton L. Wolfangle • William M. Woodard • Maurice F. Wren • Ermyle E. Young • Everett W. Zellers • Fred W. Zope
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Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.

Location. 39° 27.968′ N, 87° 24.861′ W. Memorial is in Terre Haute, Indiana, in Vigo County. It can be reached from South 3rd Street south of Cherry Street. Either park in business lots -or- go West on Cherry Street from 3rd Street - to the parking lot behind the Vigo County Courthouse. Marker is on North/East Corner of Courthouse lawn behind the Civil War Memorial. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near

Bench in Memory of Ernie Pyle image. Click for full size.

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5. Bench in Memory of Ernie Pyle

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this postal address: 33 South 3rd Street, Terre Haute IN 47807, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Central Indiana

and in the Wabash Valley.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: World War I War Memorial (here, next to this marker); Colonel Richard W. Thompson (a few steps from this marker); Civil War Memorial - Vigo County (within shouting distance of this marker); Medal of Honor Recipient (within shouting distance of this marker); Operation Iraqi Freedom - War Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Korean War Memorial - - Vigo County Indiana (within shouting distance of this marker); Vietnam War Memorial - - Vigo County Indiana (within shouting distance of this marker); Claude L. Herbert (about 300 feet away,

Henry W. Lawton - - Alvin F. Byrum Memorial Bench image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

6. Henry W. Lawton - - Alvin F. Byrum Memorial Bench

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measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Terre Haute.

Memorial Bench to All Vigo County Lawyers who Served in Armed Forces image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

7. Memorial Bench to All Vigo County Lawyers who Served in Armed Forces

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World War II Memorial is Behind the Civil War Memorial image. Click for full size.

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8. World War II Memorial is Behind the Civil War Memorial

Cannon on Courthouse Lawn image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

9. Cannon on Courthouse Lawn

You can see in the photo the World War II Memorial area and a number of benches.

Water Fountain - - On Way from Courthouse Parking Lot.... image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

10. Water Fountain - - On Way from Courthouse Parking Lot....

North / East Corner - - Vigo County Courthouse image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

11. North / East Corner - - Vigo County Courthouse

Vigo County Courthouse - - Marker Left of Civil War Memorial... image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Al Wolf, June 7, 2009

12. Vigo County Courthouse - - Marker Left of Civil War Memorial...

Credits. This page was last revised on February 11, 2026. It was originally submitted on June 10, 2009, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. This page has been viewed 7,515 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. submitted on June 10, 2009, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.