A MEMORIAL TO OAK CLIFF MEN AND WOMEN
WHOSE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE HELPED AMERICA STAY FREE

 

Here is a URL about some W. H. Adamson Hi WWII students who paid the ultimate price for Freedom.  Just click below to view the article.  Thanks. Virgil R. Marco, Sr. Adamson class of '42.  http://www.marcolowe.com/vrmsr/price_for_freedom/index.html

Carl Willoughby Coates, died at his home in Oak Cliff on August 2, 1954.  He served as a Medic in the American Expeditionary Force in Normandy in 1917-1918, survived the influenza, and was honorably discharged with the rank of PFC.  He is buried at Raton, New Mexico, where he was born.  He was a graduate of the University of Texas School of Pharmacy and operated a pharmacy at Main and Ervay in the 1920s while he lived with his mother on East Eighth in Oak Cliff.

From Ron Harris --  Here is a  photo of William B. Morehouse, Lt, US Army who graduated from Sunset in the January class of 39.   He is buried at the American Cemetery in Normandy France...You can go to American Battle Monuments Commission and search out details ....

William B Morehouse


Robert Rudd, Sunset High School, class of 64
This is the information from the Vietnam Memorial Website:

ROBERT CHARLES RUDD


SGT - E5 - Marine Corps - Regular

Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Nov 30, 1966
Casualty was on Oct 14, 1967
In PHU BON, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

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Wayne Emerton, Sunset High School, Class '64

Here is what is on the Vietnam Memorial Website:

WILLIS WAYNE EMERTON

PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division


Length of service 0 years

His tour began on May 9, 1967
Casualty was on Oct 9, 1967
In QUANG TIN, SOUTH VIETNAM

HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered


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