Sumter in Sumter County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Sumter World War II Monument

Photographed By Anna Inbody, June 2, 2012

1. Sumter World War II Monument Marker

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Dedicated to the Memory of the men of Sumter County who made the supreme sacrifice 1941 ~ 1945
(Along the Base of the monument) World War II Erected by the Grateful Citizens of Sumter County 1949

Erected 1949 by The Grateful Citizens of Sumter County.

Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II.

Location. 33° 55.358′ N, 80° 20.471′ W. Marker is in Sumter, South Carolina, in Sumter County. Memorial is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling north. The marker is located on the court house grounds. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Sumter SC 29150, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. General Thomas Sumter 1734 -1832 (a few steps from this marker); Potter's Headquarters / Federal Order Of Battle (within shouting distance of this marker); Sumter's Court Houses (within shouting distance of this marker); Sumter Vietnam Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); First Baptist Church

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2. Left Panel

Honor Roll: Lafayette Bagnal Adams; Roger Murray Allen; Charles E. Amerson; Lloyd Arnold; Maxwell M Atkinson, Jr.; Samuel Leroy Baker; Vernon Wallace Baldwin; James Terry Bass; Jack G. W. Batty; Claude Benenhaley; Earl W. Blackmon; Paul Kennedy Bowman, Jr.; Harold Ray Boykin; Curtis M. Bradley; Wallace M. Bradley; Billy A. Brunson; Clarence Lee Brunson; James B. Brutsch; William Sidney Burgess; Alwin C. Burns, Jr.; Otto W. Burns; William H. Burns; Lee Cantey; Frank Kennedy Clarke; Harry C. Coker; Richard Furman Dabbs; Moses Dargin; Ranson John Davis; William Robert Davis; Elmer Dicks; Olan Goode Dorn, Jr.; James McCutchen DuBose; Herman Anson Ehmig, Jr.; John Benjamin Folson, Jr.; Winfield Deas Gadson; James Rollin Galloway; Walter Garrett; Levi Geddings; John P. Gerald; William Eugene Givens; Bill D. Gleaton; Carl S. Goldman; B. T. Green; James Alvin Grumbles; Graham Glenn Guyton; Thomas E. Hampton; Louie Edward Harold; Arthur Julius Hatfield, Jr.; James Hillman, Jr.; John W. Hilton; Arthur M. Holder; Earl Aurthur Hood; Thomas Lea Hutchings, Jr.; Jessie T. Hynes; Griff Ingram; James A. Jackson; Soloman Jackson, Jr.; James L. Jameson; Arthur Leroy Johnson; Walter Johnson; James Aubrey Jones; Hubert Eugene King; Willie Lane; Everett Vere Langston; Robert Y. Lauderdale; William Ingram Lawrence

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(approx. 0.2 miles away); Y.M.C.A. (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Tuomey Hospital (approx. 0.2 miles away); Sumterville Academy (approx. ¼ mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Sumter.

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3. Right Panel

Honor Roll: Royal E. Leffler; Thomas Wilson Lemon; David G. Lenoir, Jr.; William Walter Lenoir; Charles P. Lesesne; James M. Lindley; William E. Logan; Earl Harrison Marshall; Nicholas Yancey Mathis, Jr.; Adger Sokes Matthews; Joseph Eedward Mims; Clarence W. Mitchum; Edwin Warren Moise, Jr.; Joseph F. Mooneyhan; Glen Durham Myers; Ralph Herman McCathern; Robert Lee McCormick; Charles L. McIntosh; Samuel G. Nathaniel; Frances D. Newman; William Eward Owens; Jessie Ben Pack; Joe Bean Palmer; Boney Beauregard Parker, Jr.; George Waring Parker; Perry Moses Phelps; William Lillington Pfifer; Lewis W. Phillips; Lee E. Plowden; Layton Poole; Jonnie Preston; Teddy E. Ray; Thomas C. Reed, Jr.; Andre Rembert; John Rembert; Bernard Gibson Riles; Ruby Robinson; Irvin Joseph Rogers; Simon K. Rowland, Jr.; Larry W. Sanders; Joseph Sargent; Claude T. Seay; Daniel Clyde Smith; Harvey E. Smith; Samuel B. Smith; Harold Nelson Stelle, Edward T. Truett; Eugene Cusick Trueluck; Carroll E. Turbeville; Willie C. Vaughn; James Otto Vining; Capers R. Wactor; William Reames Wactor; Pete Way; Clarence Wells; Joseph Eugene White, Jr.; Lewis Charles White; John Furman Wilder; Mack Thomas Willis; Haynie McIver Wilson; Herbert Wilson; Ossie C. Wilson; George S. Windham; Henry Hampton Windham; Abraham Wright; James David Player

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4. Reverse

Korean Conflict 1950 ~ 1953
Luther M. Ange; Willie Levi Adjer; Clinton L. Blankenship; Charles T. Bragg; Giles Phillip Copeland, Jr.; Herbert Isaac; Henry McDaniels, Jr.; McFaddin Moise; Vivian Moses; Milton M. Reid; Charles L. Riles; Harry Lee Tindal; Richard L. Warren

Vietnam Conflict 1964 ~ 1975
Terry Lynn Anton; Robert Cain, Jr.; Herbert Hugo Catoe, III; Charles Clark; Wyman Byrd Coleman; John Hughie Geddings; Charles Jack Girard; David Nathaniel Green, Jr.; Adherene Louis Haines; Leyland Emanuel Hammond; Jimmie Lee Harvin; William James Henry; Robert Lee Howell; Wallace Gourley Hynds, Jr.; Helmut Custav Lakaxzus; Elec McCoy; Carl McFadden, Jr.; James Nickens; Clarence E. Nunnery, Jr.; James Willard F. Schellin; Terry Sidney Smalls; Harold McRae Smith; Robert Henry Stewart; Preston Taylor, Jr.; Miles D. Touchberry, Jr.; Ben White; Frank Norman Williams; Marvin Lindsey; Robert A. Stubberfield

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5. Sumter World War II Monument Marker

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6. Overview

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on June 3, 2012, by Anna Inbody of Columbia, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 1,391 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on June 3, 2012, by Anna Inbody of Columbia, South Carolina. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.