In Memory of
The World War II Casualties
From Queen Anne High School
Click on each name below to go to our classmate's page.

In providing memorial pages for the Queen Anne students who died in World War II, we know that our list is not only incomplete but erroneous. We are starting with a list called "Kuay Supplement, For Queen Anne Men and Women in the Armed Services," which was compiled by Queen Anne journalism students with the help of many others in the spring of 1945, when V-E Day and V-J Day were perhaps uncertain hopes, though they did soon occur, V-E Day on May 8, and V-J Day on August 6. Compiled were the names of 2403 in the services, including the Merchant Marine, 607 of them officers. 76 are in the In Memoriam list, though undoubtedly the count of those who died in WWII was at that point incomplete. Indeed, there are 19 who are noted as POW or MIA. We hope to hear from any alumni who can give us further information about the WWII Queen Anne casualties.

We invite your help

We invite anyone who has additional knowledge of the fate of these people to help us out. One example of possible error is that we found persons of the same name in two different classes, and we may have chosen the wrong one.

We have included the project's cover letter written by Principal Otto Luther. Below that are the lists of the people who were POWs or MIAs as of March, 1945. Then, at the bottom of the column is the list of those who are deemed to have died during WWII but whose names we have not yet found in any of the yearbooks.

In the right hand column is the list of those we have - at least tentatively - identified, organized by their years of graduation. Click on the year to link to the page with photos and high school information for the students of that year.

Principal's Letter (March, 1945)

To Our Men and Women in the Armed Forces:

Your many friends and near kin have helped compile this list of the Queen Anne High School men and women in the Armed Forces. You number 2400, six times as many as we had in World War I. Even so, you are only one five-thousandths of America's Armed Forces. But to us, your parents and nearest of kin, you are the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Corps scattered in all the areas of combat. This list goes to press March 12, when the news comes of the crossing of the historic Rhine, reportedly not far from the point where Caesar's bridge in 54 B.C. bewildered the early Teutons. How often have the tides of victory ebbed and flowed across this historic Rhine in the past two thousand years! Aside from the human anguish and grief of these martial centuries, it would stagger the imagination to contemplate what these same martial energies directed in the channels of peace could have done for a United States of Europe patterned after our own good land. Here a Rhode Islander does not live in dread of invasion by the Empire State of New York, and the absence of trade and travel barriers equalizes the resources of the whole country.

This crossing of the Rhine causes hope to mount high for an early end of the European War. The folks back home would like to celebrate an imminent V.E. Day on these did November 11, 1918. But we realize that V.E. Day, when it comes, doesn't mean all is over but the shouting, but rather a momentary pause to steady our nerves and gird ourselves for the greater struggle in the Pacific.

Sincerely yours,
Otto L. Luther

Prisoners of War
Classmate	Class	Service
Bob Ager	1939	Capt.- Army Air Corps - Germany
William Agnetti	1940	Army Air Corps - Germany
Oscar Fargie		Pfc. - Marine Corps - Japan
Tom Hammond	1938	1st Lt. - Army Air Corps - Germany
Charles Kail		Lt. Col - Marines
Richard Luce	1940	1st Lt. - Army Air Corps - Germany
Alan Martyn	1942	Cpl. - Canadian Army - Germany
Robert Master		Sgt. - Royal Canadian Air Force - Germany
Jim McCombs		Army Air Corps
Charles Wilkins		Lt. JG - Navy
Dean Wood	1933	1st Lt. - Army
Missing In Action
Roy Gordon Anderson	1943	U S Coast Guard
William Connell	1942	Ensign - Naval Air Corps
George Dodds		Sgt - Royal Canadian Air Force
Frank Johnson	1935	U S Navy
Fred Norman		Army Air Corps
Lawrence Norman		Capt. - Army Air Corps
Fred Olsen	1933	Sgt - Army Air Corps
Adrian Rose	1936	2ns LT - Army Air Corps
Deceased With Class Year Unknown
Bruce Brown		Staff Sgt. -  Army Air Corps
James Cleary		Boatswain's Mate 2nd, Merchant Marine
William Dikeman		Sgt., Royal Canadian Air Force
John Gorman		Technician 5th Grade -  Army Air Corps
Laverne Hanson		Tech. Sgt. -  Army
Robert Holland		Pfc. -  Marine Corps
Ed Howe
Fay Johnson		Staff Sgt. -  Army
Willie McLaughlin		1st Lt. -  Army Air Corps
Dervyn Muth		Pfc. -  Army Paratroops
Frank Olmsted		2nd Lt. -  Marine Corps
Thomas O'Meara		Pfc. -  Marine Corps
Ray Partee		Chaplain - Army
Fred Picinich		Staff Sgt. -  Army
Hoyt Ross		Major - Army Air Corps
Stanley Taylor		2nd Lt. -  Army Tank Corps
Robert White		Captain - Australian Home Army
Howard Wilson		Captain - Army
"In Love"
This photo is from the "Snaps" section of the 1943 Grizzly. We have been able to identify the subjects as Donna Davis (Flynn), '43, and Joe Noyes, '40. Beside her senior photo in the '43 Grizzly, Donna said that her ambition was to always have as many friends as she then had and to fly in a B-17 with Joe. Looking for a person named Joe on our list of those killed in WWII, we found Joe Noyes, whose senior photo you will find on our page of QA fatalities from 1940. (See the list below.) Donna and Joe were engaged to be married after Joe returned from service as a B-17 co-pilot in Europe. In a phone conversation (5-9-03), Donna told us that Joe, based in England, had almost completed his tour when he was killed. Donna still lives in the Puget Sound area and is the mother of two and grandmother of three.