Scroll of Honor – Stephen Randolph Hilton
Heavy Fighting, “Light” Casualties Written by: Kelly Durham Newspaper headlines in August of 1968 told of more than six thousand enemy casualties over an eight day span of heavy fighting…
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Scroll of Honor – James Crisp Akers Salter
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowStormy Weather Written by: Kelly Durham When we think about airplane pilots and stormy weather, we often picture disaster in the skies. James Crisp Akers Salter suffered the effects of…
Scroll of Honor – Charles Henderson Franks
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowRadar Training Written by: Kelly Durham The Allies shifted from defeat and defense to offense and victory in 1942. Midway and North Africa had put the Japanese, Germans, and Italians…
Scroll of Honor – James Edward Vernon
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Fitting Day to Die Written by: Kelly Durham The 1918 edition of Taps, the Clemson College annual, included a dedication “To those of our class-mates who have departed their…
Scroll of Honor – Ralph Alexander Kelley
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowThunderbolt Pilot Written by: Kelly Durham Ralph Alexander Kelley of Charlotte, North Carolina enrolled at Clemson College as a member of the Class of 1946 and attended school during…
Scroll of Honor – Joseph L. Ruzicka, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowArts and Science Written by: Kelly Durham Joseph L. Ruzicka, Jr. of North Augusta was a man of both arts and sciences. A chemistry major in the Class of…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Randolph Peebles
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowCarrier Pilot Written by: Kelly Durham When we think of the Navy’s role in World War II, we typically envision Pacific Ocean carrier battles like Coral Sea, Midway and the…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Randolph Peebles
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowFlight from Iwo Jima Written by: Kelly Durham The idea was to capture Iwo Jima, one of the Pacific’s Volcano Islands, in order to prevent the Japanese from continuing to…
Scroll of Honor – William Shepard Nicholson, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganFerry Flight Written by: Kelly Durham It was said to be the largest factory under one roof anywhere in the world. Its main structure enclosed three and a half million…
Scroll of Honor – Derrell Sevier Jones
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowWhiskey Run Written by: Kelly Durham By mid-April 1945, the Eighth Air Force, America’s strategic bomber armada operating from English airfields, had run out of targets. So effective, so devastating…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Murrah Bailey
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganExtraordinary Heroism Written by: Kelly Durham Robert Murrah Bailey of Anderson attended Clemson for just one year, 1903-04. He took the standard freshman course load and had not declared an…
Scroll of Honor – Vallentin Tulla
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganSuperfortress Pilot Written by: Kelly Durham It was described as a technological marvel, a quantum leap forward in aviation science and engineering. The B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber demonstrated…
Scroll of Honor – Jake S. Colvin, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganHigh Level Jake Stone Colvin, Jr. achieved at a high level in so many different walks of life: academics, athletics, leadership, and service to his country during time of war….
Scroll of Honor – Robert Adams Guy
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowCassino The slaughter got so bad that a German soldier carrying a white flag carefully picked his way down the slope among the snow sprinkled rocks. Surrender wasn’t his intent. …
Scroll of Honor – Clayton Lawrence Herrington
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganReconnaissance Patrol The November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa placed its German and Italian occupiers in a bind. General Montgomery’s British Eighth Army was ascendant in the east,…
Scroll of Honor – Donald Anthony Callia
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowBirthday Flight Written by: Kelly Durham The mission was supposed to be a routine training flight. That it fell on the pilot’s birthday was a mere coincidence. It turned out…
Scroll of Honor – Harry Burton Goodson, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowKamikazi Victim Written by: Kelly Durham Relatively few enrolled in college during the 1930s. Of those who did, fewer still graduated. The academics were rigorous and the economic status of…
Scroll of Honor – Charles Alex Brown
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowBlunting the Bulge Written by: Kelly Durham Charles Alex Brown of Starr spent two years on the Clemson campus. An agriculture major, Brown arrived in 1938 as a member of…
Scroll of Honor – Baylis Whitner Harrison, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganThe Most Hazardous Service Written by: Kelly Durham It wasn’t simply the valor of soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen that won the Second World War. Each combatant had to be…
Scroll of Honor – Ralph Buel Bradshaw
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganTo Them We Owe Everything Written by: Kelly Durham Ralph Buel Bradshaw came to Clemson in the late summer of 1938 from his hometown of Cartersville, Georgia. Like many of…
Scroll of Honor – Horace Hagood Young, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganOperation RESERVIST Written by: Kelly Durham The first American ground forces to go into battle in the European Theater during World War II fought not the Germans, not the Italians,…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Lee Atkinson
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganPandemic Written by: Kelly Durham COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to make an appearance on the Clemson campus. Just over a hundred years ago, the Spanish Flu spread to…
Scroll of Honor – D.J. Ross ’41
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Life of Service and Promise Written by: Kelly Durham Dewitt Javan Ross was arguably the outstanding member of an outstanding class, the Class of 1941. Its ranks included not…
Scroll of Honor – Henry Kent Segars
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganSquadron Commander Written by: Kelly Durham It was the largest airborne operation of World War II, in fact the largest in history. Operation Market-Garden’s objective was to drop American, British,…
Scroll of Honor – Frank Pierce Salter
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA New Kind of War Written by: Kelly Durham It was a new kind of war, one in which men soared above the battle lines in machines that few had…
Scroll of Honor – Daniel Gardner McCollum
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganThe Global War on Terror Written by: Kelly Durham Most current Clemson students hadn’t been born, but those of a certain age will never forget September 11, 2001. It was…
Scroll of Honor – Stuart Star Abell, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganEngine Failure Written by: Kelly Durham Stuart Star Abell, Jr. came to Clemson in 1936 from the Chester County crossroads of Lowrys. A member of the Class of 1940, Abell…
Scroll of Honor – James Tinsley Whitney
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganRecapturing Guam Written by: Kelly Durham Perhaps James Tinsley Whitney knew about Guam from his classes at Union High School. Maybe he had read about the island’s seaplane base serving…
Scroll of Honor – Dock Graham Thomas
/in Scroll of Honor/by Megan McDowBall Turret Gunner Written by: Kelly Durham Dock Graham Thomas, Jr. attended Clemson as a freshman during the 1940-1941 academic year. An English major from Greenville, Thomas was a member…
Scroll of Honor – Dibble Manly Rickenbaker
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganFirst to Fall Written by: Kelly Durhan Dibble Manly Rickenbaker of Summerton followed his older brother to Clemson in the fall of 1940. Tourie was a year ahead of the…
Scroll of Honor – James Henry Pressley, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Time of Transition Written by: Kelly Durham The end of World War II was a time of transition on the Clemson College campus. The fall semester of 1945 brought…
Keeping the Tradition Alive
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganDuring this year’s Clemson Corps Senior Recognition Dinner, retired Brigadier General Hap Carr recognized three outstanding individuals for their efforts in promoting the awareness and education of Clemson’s long and…
Scroll of Honor – Philip Aaron Porter
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Special Memorial Day Written by: Kelly Durham Next Monday is Memorial Day, a day on which we honor those who died while serving our country in its armed forces. …
Scroll of Honor – John Thomas Lyles, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganLost to the Pacific Written by: Kelly Durham The 507th Fighter Group deployed to the Pacific theater of operations in March 1945. Its planned mission was to provide fighter escort…
Scroll of Honor – Lewis Bryson Lawter
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganFatal Formation Written by: Kelly Durham There was a threat of war in Europe in the fall of 1938 as Lewis Bryson Lawter and the Class of 1942 enrolled on…
Scroll of Honor – William Mathew Able
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganCareer Cut Short Written by: Kelly Durham William Mathew Able, an agriculture/animal husbandry major from Saluda, arrived on campus with the other boys in the Class of 1945, the last…
Scroll of Honor – William Clyde Preacher
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganRecalled to Duty Written by: Kelly Durham William Clyde Preacher of Ridgeland was older than most of his classmates, but there was a reason for that. Billy, as he was…
Scroll of Honor – Arthur Brown, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganThe Bridge At Remagen Written by: Kelly Durham The Associated Press called it a “military triumph rivaling in importance the Normandy landings.” “It” was the capture of a crossing over…
Scroll of Honor – Eldon Douglas Hunter, Jr.
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganLost Written By Kelly Durham These days, we take transoceanic flight for granted. With advances in aircraft technology—from efficient jet engines to satellite navigation systems—air travel between continents is routine,…
Scroll of Honor – Robert Bankston Williams
/in Scroll of Honor/by Dana MorganA Young Man of the Highest Caliber Written by: Kelly Durham Robert Bankston Williams of Charlotte, North Carolina attended Clemson College for only his freshman year, enrolling in the general…