William H. Hronek, Jr., born August 3, 1919, graduated from Washington State College with a BA in Business in 1941. He joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve, becoming a naval aviator. He died in a head on plane collision on January 23, 1943.
John Vincent Fryslie, born February 28, 1916 in Flasher, North Dakota, attended Washington State College from 1936 to 1937, and in 1940. A Sergeant in the US Marine Corps, he worked as an aerial photographer and died in a plane crash near Palmyra Atoll.