During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, men from Vance County, North Carolina, made the supreme sacrifice in service to God and country. They were O. A. Abbott, Clarence Allgood, Huston H. Averette, Bennie Ayscue, Perry W. Ayscue, John David Baker, William Balthrop Jr., Jack D. Basey, Vernon Bennett Jr., Claude Breedlove, George Buchan, E.V. Bunn Jr., Morrison Byrd, Edward F. Capps, Luther M. Chance, Simon Christmas, Walter Christmas, Charles B. Church Jr., Charles M. Cooper III, Hill R. Cooper, Dalton Dixon, Samuel Durham, Elon Eastwood, George E. Edwards, Charles D. Ellington, Warren T. Facuette, Ernest K. Fleming, Floyd R. Fleming Jr., Claiborne Fuller, Charlie T. Gardner, John C. Greenway, Julian Greenway, Ellis B. Gregg, Grover Griffin, E. W. Grissom, Leo Hamlin, James C. Harris, William B. Harris, Walter Haskins, Harry C. Hedgepeth, Percy L. Hedgepeth, Charles Hester, Carl C. Holbrook, Roger Howard, Jesse L. Huff, Emmett F. Hughes, Hugh Hunt, Archie Jarrell, Norwood Thomas Jenkins, Cleo Jones, Arthur C. Kelley, Simon Kelly, John Nathan King Jr., Bill D. Knight, William Jr. Lyles, Wiley Lamon Wright, David G. Langley, Henry E. Matthews, James E. Moore, James C. Moore, William Mosely, Hammet Newton, Richard Norvell, James S. Norwood, Thomas E. Norwood, J. O. Parker, Edward B. Parrish, James M. Pendergrass, Francis B. Peoples, John L. Poythress, Casper D. Pulley, Lawrence J. Rux, Robert Rideout, Graves Shotwell, Chester A. Taylor, J. Randolph Teague Jr., William A. Teague II, William C. Vaughan, Jimmie Walker, Robert D. Wall, Owen A. Wallace, James Weldon, Alpheus White, and Freeman Whitfield Jr.