City of Uniontown World War II Memorial - Uniontown, PA
N 39° 54.093 W 079° 43.399
17S E 609135 N 4417610
This memorial is located on the courthouse lawn of the Fayette County Courthouse, located at 61 East Main Street in the downtown area of Uniontown, the county seat of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMPHKC
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2015
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City of Uniontown World War II Memorial - Uniontown, Pennsylvania
The memorial is on the grounds of the county courthouse is a tribute to those who served.
Engraved free-standing, black granite planks list those who fought in World War II.
There are 3,000 names of soldiers who left from Uniontown, there were approximately 15,000 people in the city of Uniontown, that's one out of every five ... . That's a huge ratio. For a town that is so small, that's an impressive number of soldiers."
The memorial also features engraved paving bricks encased in 16 panels along the memorial walkways, and fifteen dedicated benches.
As part of his Eagle Scout project, Andrew A. Jellots III raised money for one of the 13 flags that wave over the memorial. He also purchased a brick to honor his grandfather Andrew A. Jellots, a World War II prisoner of war.
OTHER INDIVIDUAL PANELS
Attorney Joseph R. Rygiel
World War II Pilot
Sixth Bomber Group
Thirty Ninth Squadron
Twentith Air Force
313th Wing Air Offense Japan
Central Pacific
memorial by sons and families
Gordon 'Took' Silbaugh
World War II, U.S. Navy
Aviation Radioman, Second Class
Naval Air Gunnery (T)(CA)
Fidelity Gunnery Radio
Greatly Missed and Loved
By Wife, Shirley
"Always in My Heart
John A. "Jack" McMullen
World War II U.S. Coast Guard
Sep. 1939 - Sep. 1945
Radioman 1st Class & LCI Floatilla
Invasions of North Africa and Italy
All-American CMDR VFW Post 47
"And Many and Many A wind shall blow
Till Jack comes home again
--His Loving Wife, Carolyn & Son John
Capt. Harry L. McMullen Jr.
P-47 Fighter Pilot, Army Air Corps
Nov. 1941 - Mar 1945
69th FTR SQ 58th FTR GRP
"The Werewolves"
SW Pacific, Solomon Islands
Shot down and rescued after many days surviving alone
in the jungle. while stage acting and choreographing
in NYC, Harry succumbed to Jungle Lung Fever
Joseph Norman Davis
August 11, 1924 - May 17, 2008
B-17 Tail Gunner / Waist Gunner
8th Army Air Corps June 1943 - October 1945
4 Life Threatening Crash Landings
Parachuted over Occupied France
"Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high
into the sun"
A true example of the greatest generation
physical description of the monument
