During World War II from 1941 to 1945, Preble honored local service members including Lyle Ackerman, Albert Aldrich, John Allen, Charles O. Baldwin, Sereno Baldwin, Wayne V. Baldwin, Thomas J. Beerman, Thomas J. Beerman Jr., Harold A. Bennett, Oscar Bennett, Douglas G. Bloodgood, James Brown, Charles W. Catron, Russell A. Catron, Paul Currie, William W. Currie, Gary DuBois, Ellis Edinger, Edward G. Evans, Kenneth Greene Jr., William C. Haynes, Frederick Howard, Raymond Jordan, Richard Knapp, Bethel Leighton, Francis Lonergan, Richard K. McEvoy, Sherman Morgan, Willard Morgan, Robert Porter, Edward F. Powers, Charles Randall, Donald S. Randall, Herbert Randall, Francis R. Rhodes, Bernard Rodenhider, Thomas Ryan, Charles E. Shattuck, Richard G. Smith, Donald H. Strong, John H. Sutton, Michael Thrice, Glenn VanPatten, Douglas Warner, Edward Wells, Gardner Wells, and Smith Wright.