World War II, 1941-45, cost the lives of Nash County men who entered the service of their country so that others might enjoy the blessings of liberty. The dead included Walter J. Alexander, Charles B. Allsbrook, Lester R. Anderson, Mercer W. Avent, Tom George Avent, John David Baker, Shelton A. Baker, Horace Marvin Barnes, Van C. Barnes, Robert Bass, Daniel J. Battle, Turner W. Battle, James R. Batts Jr., George Lee Bissett, Paul A. Bostic, Haywood Edison Brantley, Jasper K. Brantley, William Horace Brantley, Homer P. Braswell, Sheldon Parker Braswell, James L. Brown, Walter E. Brown, Robert Bryant, Mark Settle Bunn, Jay C. Byers, Johnnie Canty, Otis L. Carpenter, Joseph D. Cockrell, James Aussie Coggin, Bennie W. Coleman, Sidney B. Collie, Hodge L. Collins, Alfred S. Cooper, Henry C. Cooper, Jr, Lawrence Cooper, Howard W. Crusenberry, Johnnie Davis, Nichols Maynard Dozier, Amos L. Eason, William M. Eason, George W. Edge, Opie Gray Edwards, Raymond E. Edwards, Robert Lee Edwards, A. J. English, Burnice C. Farmer, Ernest Clifton Fisher, Julian E. Ford, Worth B. Fulghum, David E. Gardiner, James O. Gilbert, Norman Gilliam, Stephen Freedy Glover, James E. Grantham, Dayton Green, Horace Griffin, Charles Gruenberg, Hosea Cornelius Harrison, Jr., Spencer R. Hayes, Robert L. Hedgepeth, Annie M. Hendricks, Grover Cleveland Hicks, Jr., Gerald High, Leroy Hinton, James G. Holmes, James Willard Honeycutt, Pharoah I. Hopkins, Flavius M. Hopkins, Monnue H. Israel, Jr., Arthur L. Johnson, Johnnie L. Jones, Preston O. Jones, Henry B. Joyner, Julian Y Joyner, Edward A. Kemp, Jr., R. W. Kennedy, Jr., Louis M. Killebrew, John T. Lamm, Samuel J. Langston, John T. Lee, Jasper E. Leonard, John Herbert Liles, John Bonnie Lindsey, Joe Lyon, Joe L. Manning, Oliver M. Manning, Ernest Roger Mayo, John R. Minton, Buddie E. Morris, Darnell Murray, John D. Nelms, Ollie Morris Nelms, Willie Odom, Wallace R. Purkerson, Oliver Worth Peele, Wade L. Pitt, Paul Pittman, Davis F. Privette, Clifton H. Rackley, Johnnie Richardson, Jack O. Riley, Charlie L. Rose, Robert L. Rosenbloom, Janes Randolph Rowland, Joseph Safy, Arthur Schulken, Lloyd Short, Maurice Sills, George C. Skinner, Lubie E. Smith, Jr., Robert Holmes Smith, Troy W. Smith, Warren Stallings, Wilson D. Stallings, J. M. Strickland, Jack Stone, Kenneth Tant, Henry Alton Taylor, Laddie W Taylor, John D. Thackston, Jr., Homer C. Thorne, Willis H. Todd, James W. Vaughan, Assail Benjamin Vick, Raymond J. Vick, Stancil W. Vick, James A. Walker, R. D. Wells, Jr., George W. Whitley, Jr, Jon H. Wiggs, Jr., Curtis G. Williams, Thomas W. Wilson, Daniel E. Winstead, and Medford Winstead. Those listed as Missing In Action were Roney W. Bailey, Randolph M. Brantley, Robert Bryant, Paul Davis, Claude Jones, Frank K. Layton, Charles L. Moore, Karl B. Shearin, and Lovelace Williams. Their lives were lost in the various branches of service, and a roster in the building's archives records the name and service record of each person from the county who participated in the war.