World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing
Shelby County, Tennessee

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The Honor List of Dead and Missing for Shelby County, Tennessee is published by the War Department for the information of public officials, the press, the radio and interested organizations. It contains the latest and most complete data available on all military personnel who were killed or died, or became and remained missing, between the President's declaration of unlimited national emergency on May 27, 1941, and the cut-off data of this report, January 31, 1946, and includes both battle and non-battle dead or missing. The complete work, of which this volume is a part, contains about 300,000 names of men and women who gave their lives while serving in the Army of the United States.

Key:

• DNB -Died, Non-Battle.
• DOW -Died of Wounds.
• FOD -Finding of death.
• KIA -Killed in Action.
• CPL - Corporal.
• LT - Lieutenant.
• JG - Junior Grade.
• PFC - Private First Class.
• PVT - Private.
• SGT - Sargeant.
• SSGT - Staff Sargeant.
• TEC - Technician.