November 14, 2006
Maybe That’s Why They Were in a Hurry to Win and Bring the Soldiers Home . . . Posted by Julie M. Fenster at 09:45 AM EST An abbreviated list of U.S. war dead in 1944:
Marine Pfc. Stephen P. Hopkins, son of Assistant to the President Harry Hopkins, at sea in the Marshall Islands.
1st Lt. Peter G. Lehman, son of U.N. administrator (and former New York Governor) Herbert Lehman, in a bomber crash in England.
Marine Sgt. Peter B. Saltonstall, son of Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall, in jungle fighting in Guam.
Joseph Kennedy, Jr., son of the former ambassador to Britain, in a plane crash off the English coast.
Lt. Wells Lewis, son of the novelist Sinclair Lewis, in fighting in France.
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