During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, men and women from Orr's Island served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Waves, Army Nurse Corps, Merchant Marine, and U.S. Coast Guard. Those named are Kenneth E. Baker, George H. Bangs Jr., Burton C. Chase, Waitstill C. Doughty, Garwood Ferris, Charles E. Gilliam, Roy M. Gilliam, Russell Houghton, Albert C. Johnson, Edward R. Johnson, Joseph E. Johnson, Ralph W. Judkins, Willis M. Robinson, Watson H. Thurston, Charles E. Tibbetts, Alvia F. York, Robert B. Bangs, William H. Boyce, Gordon L. Boyce, William J.C. Baker, John J. Curran, Phillip E. Curran, Clyde A. Dunlap, Albert S. Gilliam, Charles W. Gilliam Jr., Dewey L. Gilliam, Ernest F. Hillman Jr., Harold H. Pride, Edwin E. Rooff, Herbert G. Shea, Joseph W. Shea, Harmon W. Tibbetts Jr., Charles D. Todd, Ira J. York Jr., Francis R. Johnson, Katherine Ferris, Edna M. Robinson, Roger H. Alexander, Burton P. Gilliam, Joseph Harris, Edward K. Bangs, and Herbert E. Lubee.