Biography
African-American Delawareans who served our country
Citizens of Delaware Who Served the Confederacy
Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame, Includes many military aviators from Delaware.
Delaware Air National Guard Profiles, short biographies of DANG people through the years
Delaware Biographies, Includes many military biographies
Delaware's United States Colored Troops & Sailors, Civil War
Delaware Medal of Honor Recipients, Listing includes those buried in Delaware.
Delaware National Guard Campsite Names, honoring Delaware National Guardsmen
Delaware National Guard Leadership, The roster of Adjutants General, Assistants, Senior Enlisted
advisors, and other leadership positions in the Delaware Guard and Militia through the years.
Delaware Women in the military
Fighting' Blue Hen Hall of Heroes, University of Delaware, Army Reserve Officers Training Corps
members who were commissioned at Delaware, and later served in leadership positions, and/or had
special accomplishments.
Hometown Heroes of the First State, compiled by C. Douglas Sterner
A list of Spanish American War Veterans buried in Delaware
Pioneers of the Delaware Air National Guard by Kennard Wiggins
Southern Delaware Heroes of World War II, compiled by James Diehl
Delaware War Dead,
Revolutionary War
Civil War
World War I
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Iraq/Afghanistan
Individual Delawareans who have made a difference
Revolutionary War
Richard Basset, Patriot, Revolutionary War soldier, Governor of Delaware
Cheney Clow, Delaware Loyalist during the Revolution, insurrectionist hanged for murder
Thomas Collins, Brigadier General Delaware Militia, Revolutionary War
General John Dagworthy, Commander, Sussex County Militia, French and Indian Wars,
Revolutionary War
Colonel John Haslet (1727 - 1777), French and Indian, Revolutionary War
Robert Kirkwood, Soldier Revolutionary War
Caesar Rodney, officer of the Delaware militia during French and Indian War and American
Revolution
Barbary Pirates, War of 1812
Colonel Samuel Boyer Davis, Defender of Lewes, War of 1812
Boatswain's Mate Reuben James, Barbary Campaign, War of 1812
Commodore Jacob Jones, Barbary Pirate captive, hero of War of 1812,
Commodore Thomas MacDonough, Tripoli, War of 1812, Hero of Lake Champlain
Civil War
Lieutenant Samuel Boyer Davis, Confederate Spy, Civil War
Major General Henry duPont, 1812-1889, Adjutant General Delaware Militia
Henry Algernon du Pont, Medal of Honor Recipient, Civil War, U.S. Senator
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont, Mexican War, Civil War
Rear Admiral Purnell Frederick Harrington, US Navy, Civil War, Spanish-American War
Henry Hayes Lockwood, Civil War Union General
Captain James Postles, Medal of Honor Recipient at Gettysburg, Adjutant General
Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union Army, last general killed in Civil War
Lorenzo Thomas, Union Adjutant General Civil War, Secretary of War
William Tillman, African-American Seaman, A Story of High Seas Heroism
Major General Alfred T. A. Torbert, Union General, Civil War
James Harrison Wilson, Union General, Engineer, Cavalry, Civil War, Spanish American War,
Boxer Rebellion
World War I
Colonel S.B.I. Duncan, Punitive Expedition to Mexico, WWI, WWII
Lt. James Allison O'Daniel, Aviator, First Delawarean Killed in World War I
World War II
Rose Alesiani A “Rosie the Riveter”at Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
Maj. Gen. Clarence E, "Ed" Atkinson, Founder, Delaware Air National Guard, former Adjutant
General of Delaware
Major David P. Buckson, DE ARNG Commander, South Pacific WWII, Lt. Governor
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Charles I. Carpenter, First Chief of Air Force Chaplains, WWII
Roman A. "Ray" Ciesinski, WWII POW anti-tank gun crewman, Patton's army
Ruth Haddick Dorsman, World War II Army Nurse, European Theater
General Richard Hastings Ellis, WWII and commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command
Ethel Meyer Finley (1921 - 2006) was a Womans Airforce Service Pilot (WASP).
Virginia “Scotty” Bradley Gough, was a Womans Airforce Service pilot (WASP).
Forrest Guth, Parachutist, 101st Airborne, "Band of Brothers" WWII
Diary of Lt. Col. David B. Harrington, serving with the 198th Coast Artillery on Bora Bora
Diary of Private Louis V. Hester, serving in the South Pacific with the 198th Coast Artillery
General Thomas Holcomb, 17th Commandant of the US Marine Corps, WWII,
Rear Admiral John Elwood Lee, United States Navy Submariner, Winner of three Navy Crosses
Lucile Petry Leone, Director of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps, World War II
Thomas Lodge, 198th Coast Artillery, WWII
Wallace B. McCafferty, USAF aviator, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Bendix Race 1955
Lt. Col. David F. McCallister Jr. WWII, Korea, DE ANG leader, race winner, record setter
Littleton Mitchell, Tuskegee Airman, WWII
Louisa Spruance Morse was a Civil Air Patrol ground instructor in World War II and commander of
the Delaware Wing for 23 years.
LTG John Wilson "Iron Mike" O’Daniel, U. S. Army, Mexican border, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam
Lt. Gen. Robert Houston Pepper, USMC WWII Base Defense Pioneer
Lt. General Eugene Reybold U.S. Army, Chief of Engineers, WWII
Colonel George J. Schulz, Commanding Officer of the 198th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) WWII
Capt. James R. Shotwell Jr,WWII aviator, DE ANG jet pilot, killed in line of duty
Julian Constable Smith, Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps, Nicaragua, WWII
Brig. Gen. William W. Spruance (Ret.), WWII, Founder of Delaware Air Guard
Major George S. Welch, WWII triple ace, Pearl Harbor hero, test pilot,
SSgt Kennard R. Wiggins Sr, WWII USAAF ball turrent gunner B-24, Italy
Korean War
Capt. Paul N. Dill, U.S. Army, WWI, Korea MIA
Lieutenant General William H. Duncan, Commander of the 261st Signal Command, DE ARNG
Brig. Gen. William F. Hutchison, Korean War jet pilot, Commander DE ANG
Kenneth Rowe (No Kum-Sok), North Korean defector, Univ. of DE engineering student
George R. "Taps" Taylor, Korean War Vet, Bugler
Vietnam
James J. Connell, Lieutenant Commander, Naval Aviator, POW Vietnam, Navy Cross
Nancy Lynch, Delaware author, journalist "Vietnam Mailbag"
Brigadier General Jon A. Reynolds, USAF, Aviator, PhD. POW Vietnam
BG Ronald B. Stewart, Asst. Adjutant General, Aviator, Vietnam
Colonel (Ret.) James R. Sulpizi, Pioneer of Army National Guard Aviation
Gulf War, Iraq/Afghanistan
Major General Hugh T. Broomall, Special Assistant to the Director, Air National Guard.
Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki, US Air Force, KIA Iraq 2007
Carol Anne Timmons, Brig. Gen. First Delaware National Guard female general officer, Gulf War,
Iraq, Afghanistan
Brigadier General Ernest G. Talbert, Delaware National Guard's first black general
Major General Frank Vavala, The Adjutant General, Delaware, Chairman, National Guard
Association of the United States, Former President, Adjutants General Association of the United
States
Brigadier General Terry L. Wiley, Former Assistant Adjutant General DE ARNG, Chairman
Delaware Military Heritage and Education Foundation
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