The 2027 Clemson 8 Challenge

32 Known Clemson POWs

WORLD WAR II: PACIFIC THEATRE

rmy Air Force Captain Theodore Cuyler Bigger '34, York County, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Army 1LT Martin Crook, Jr. '39, Spartanburg, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Army Captain William R. English '37, Columbia, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on Cebu Island.

Army Major Albert M. George '36, Aiken, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on the island of Mindanao.

Army Colonel Louis D. Hutson '13, Aiken, S.C. Captured by the Japanese after being wounded on Bataan.

Army Captain Marion R. “Manny” Lawton '40, Garnett, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Army Captain Henry D. Leitner '37, Greenwood, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Army 1LT Otis F. Morgan '38, Laurens, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor.

Army Lt. Colonel William Allen Orr '38, Anderson, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Marine Captain Wesley McCoy Platt '35, Summerville, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on Wake Island.

Army Air Force Captain Francis Herbert Scarborough '39, Bishopville, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor.

Army Captain Beverly N. “Ben” Skardon '38, Walterboro, S.C. Captured by the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March.

Army 1LT Howard Monroe Vassey '40, Chesnee, S.C. Captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor.

WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATRE

Army Air Force LT Robert Herman Berly, Jr., Lexington, S.C. Attended classes in 1942. Captured by the Germans after his B-24 was shot down in Hungary.

Army PFC Thomas Whitfield Dunaway, Jr. '49, Thomaston, Ga. Went missing in action in France on Nov. 13, 1944. Captured by the Germans.

Army 2LT George Albert Henry '45, Spartanburg, S.C. Captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.

Army Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Lake Hugh Jameson, Sr. '42, Easley, S.C. Captured by the Germans.

Army Staff Sgt. George W. Jones, Loris, S.C. Attended classes in 1941. Captured by the Germans.

Army PFC Joseph Lawrence King '47, Columbia, S.C. Captured by the Germans during the Battle of Orscholz.

Army Corporal Horace Gordon Meisner, Jr. '46, Savannah, Ga. Captured by the Germans in the Ardennes.

Army Air Force Captain William Henry Mooney, Jr. '41, Hawkinsville, Ga. Captured by the Germans when his P-51 was shot down near Fulda, Germany.

KOREAN WAR:

Air Force Major Malcolm Brodie Edens ’47, Pickens, S.C. - Died while missing in action.

Army 1Lt. William H. Funchess '48, Orangeburg County, S.C. - Captured by the Chinese Communist Army.

Army Captain St. Clair Webb, Jr. '43, Anderson, S.C. - Died while a Prisoner of War.

VIETNAM WAR:

Air Force Captain William Renwick Austin II '59, Simpsonville, S.C. - Captured by the North Vietnamese.

Navy Lt. Commander Robert Fant, '57, Anderson, S.C. - Captured by the North Vietnamese.

Air Force Major Samuel R. Vaughan '67, St. George, S.C. - Captured by the North Vietnamese.