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Remembering the 248 Wilmington men we lost during World War II Wilbur D. Jones Jr. © WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS/USA TODAY NETWORK Gravesite of Capt. John Richard “Dick” Garrabrant, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, killed in action in Normandy on June 10, 1944. Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France. (Georgia is listed because he entered the Army from there.) Marine Corsair fighter pilot First Lt. Bobby Goldberg, flying with VMF-511 on the USS Block Island, d...

On Memorial Day, we honor the 248 Wilmington men who were either killed in action or listed as missing in action during World War II.