Did you know about the "HERO STREETS" in Sumter?
These are some of the streets in Sumter, SC that are named after Sumter/Edmunds High alumni who lost thier lives fighting for freedom in America's wars.
If you live or travel on these streets remember the heroes these streets honor. Make sure your children and grandchildren know how they were named.
It is because of them that we live free. The City of Sumter named these streets after our fallen heroes so they will never be forgotten. REMEMBER THEM.
Click on their pictures to discover more about them and how they died. Click maps for Google Maps.
Sumter High School Class of 1932
WORLD WAR II
Army 1st Lt. Lafayette Bagnal Adams was killed in action at the battle of North Appenines, Italy, just four days after returning to the front from his last injury. He had been wounded in action three times.
Sumter High School Class of 1940
WORLD WAR II
Army 2nd Lt. Paul Kennedy Bowman, Jr. was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge at Grand Halleau, Belgium. He was hit by mortar fire becoming the first of 26 men killed in action from Fox Company.
Sumter High School Class of 1941
WORLD WAR II
Marine Corporal Billie Ashleigh Brunson was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Saipan on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
Sumter High School Class of 1934
Died April 21, 1941
Army Lt. William Sidney Burgess, apparently struck by a train, was found beside the Southern Railway tracks at Method, near Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sumter High School Class of 1938
WORLD WAR II
Army Air Corps. Bombardier/Navigator 2nd Lt. Alwin Caruthers Burns, Jr. was killed in action when his A20 Havoc bomber was hit by flak and exploded while on a bombing mission over Germany.
Sumter High School Class of 1921
WORLD WAR II
Army Air Force Lt. Colonal Frank Kennedy Clarke was lost at sea when the plane transporting him and four other officers went down somewhere off of the Florida coast and has never been found.
Sumter High School Class of 1938
WORLD WAR II
Army Captain Olin Goode Dorn, Jr., commanding officer of Company L, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, 9th Army, was killed in action in Belgium when he was hit by German artillery fire.
Sumter High School Class of 1926
WORLD WAR II
Army Lieutenant James McCutchen DuBose, 160th Field Artillery, 45th Division, was killed in action in North Africa.
Sumter High School Class of 1939
WORLD WAR II
Air Force Pilot 2nd Lt. John Benjamin Folsom, Jr. was killed when his B-17, while on a strategic bombardment mission over Germany, was hit by enemy flak, caught fire and crashed.
Sumter High School Class of 1934
WORLD WAR II
Army Major John Paul Gerald while on orders to destroy a heavily defended road block behind enemy lines in Germany was killed by enemy rifle fire when the patrol he was commanding was ambushed.
Sumter High School Class of 1936
WORLD WAR II
Air Force Pilot 1st Lt. Graham Glenn Guyton was killed when his B-24, while on a bombing raid on German war facilities at Kiel, Germany, was attacked and shot down by enemy fighter aircraft.
Edmunds High School Class of 1942
WORLD WAR II
Army Sergeant William Ingram Lawrence was killed on Christmas day when the transport ship Leopoldville, while crossing the English Channel, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat.
Sumter High School Class of 1929
WORLD WAR II
Navy Ensign Thomas Wilson Lemmon was lost at sea when the merchant ship, where he was serving as Officer in Charge of the armed guard crew, sank when it was rammed by another merchant ship. He was never found.
Edmunds High School Class of 1940
WORLD WAR II
Army Air Force Pilot 2nd Lt. David Gaillard LeNoir, Jr. was killed when his B-24 bomber went down in bad weather conditions on a flight from Casper Army Air Field in Casper, Wy. to Ellsworth Field in Rapid City, S.D.
Edmunds High School Class of 1942
WORLD WAR II
Marine Corporal James Murry Lindley was killed during a Japanese divebomber attach on the USS Franklin (CV-13) aircraft carrier he was stationed on 50 miles off the Japanese coast. His body was never found.
Sumter High School Class of 1938
WORLD WAR II
Air Force Navigator 2nd Lt. Adger Stokes Matthews was killed when his B-17, while on a strategic bombardment mission over Germany, exploded and crashed.
Edmunds High School Class of 1940
WORLD WAR II
Navy Petty Officer Ralph Herman McCathern was killed when the K-94 Blimp he was flying in caught fire and exploded off the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba. The entire eight man crew was lost and never found.
Edmunds High School Class of 1942
WORLD WAR II
Army Private Joseph Franklin Mooneyham was killed in combat in Mons, Belgium in the initial battles to liberate Belgium from the Germans.
Sumter High School Class of 1938
WORLD WAR II
Navy Petty Officer Glenn Durham Myers was lost at sea when his destroyer, the U.S.S. Rowan (DD-405) was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Capri, Italy.
Sumter High School Class of 1934
WORLD WAR II
Army 2nd Lt. George Waring Parker, Sr. was killed during the 449th Bombardment Group movement from the United States to Italy when their B-24 Liberator struck a mountain peak in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
Sumter High School Class of 1925
WORLD WAR II
Navy Lt. Perry Moses Phelps died in a motor vehicle accident while he was stationed in North Africa.
Sumter High School Class of 1940
WORLD WAR II
Navy Ensign and fighter pilot William Lillington Phifer died when his FM-2 Wildcat went down in the Mindanao Sea off the coast of the Philippines during an attack mission against Japanese surface units.
Sumter High School Class of 1928
WORLD WAR II
Radio operator Sgt. Lewis Weldon Phillips died when his B-24 Liberator "Dragon Lady" crashed and exploded during takeoff from Manchester England as they were starting their second bombing mission for the day.
Sumter High School Class of 1932
WORLD WAR II
Navy Ensign Thomas Center Reed, Jr. was killed in action when the aircraft carrier he was stationed on, the USS Wasp (CV-7), was struck by three Japanese torpedoes and sunk in the Coral Sea near the Solomon Islands.
Sumter High School Class of 1937
WORLD WAR II
Died January 28, 1945
Airforce First Lieutenant Simon Kittrell Rowland, Jr. was killed in an early morning auto accident between Lubbock Army Air Field and Lubbock, Texas.
Edmunds High School Class of 1942
WORLD WAR II
Army Private First Class Samual Benjamin Smith, Jr. was killed in combat in La Haye du Puits (Manche), France during the Battle of Normandy.
Edmunds High School Class of 1940
KOREAN WAR
Marine fighter pilot Captain Vivian Mordaunt Moses was killed in combat when his F4U Corsair was shot down over North Korea while on a low altitude strafing mission of North Korean forces.
Edmunds High School Class of 1933
WORLD WAR II
Army First Lieutenant Rufus Capers Wactor was killed in combat during the amphibious assault on Sicily.
Edmunds High School Class of 1943
KOREAN WAR
Army First Lieutenant Richard Lauren Warren was killed in combat in Korea during the Hadong Ambush resulting in 495 US casualties decimating the US 3rd Battalion in which he served.
Edmunds High School Class of 1937
WORLD WAR II
Marine Private Haynie McIver Wilson was killed in combat in the battle of Iwo Jima.
We all remember the bronze Memorial Plaque that hung on the wall of the Auditorium Foyer.
It was presented to our High School by the Class of 1948.
The following are pages from the 1949 yearbook as well as a newspaper clipping about the presentation from the The Sumter Daily Item on October 21, 1948. Click on the article to see a large image of the plaque.
This page may NOT contain all Sumter/Edmunds High Military Veterans and Streets.
Names and Streets will be added as more information is received.