John Elwood Gay, born March 22, 1915, graduated from Washington State College in 1939. A Major in the Army Air Corps, he was killed when his plane went down near Iwo Jima on March 8, 1945.
Billy Dean Hughes, born March 2, 1920, attended Washington State College from 1938 to 1941. He joined the Army Air Corps on December 19, 1941, and he died in a plane crash likely preparing to bomb Wake Island on April 29, 1943.
Jack P. Gould was born on August 13, 1917 and grew up in La Crosse, Washington. He attended Washington State College from 1936 to 1937. Enlisting in the Army Air Corps in November 1940, he survived the Bataan Death March but died from disease May 5, 1942.
Born on May 23, 1918, Gilbert Bonn Chambers graduated from WSC with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration on June 3, 1940. Commissioned a reserve officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941, he was killed in action at Bataan on May 8, 1942.
