Honoring with Glory

The men and women of Bingham District were honored for placing their country above all after God and serving victoriously in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War II. The community also remembered comrades who made the supreme sacrifice: Robert Burke of the Navy in 1944 in North Pacific waters; Rodney Charles Davidson of the Navy in 1943 in South Pacific waters; Delbert Dexter of the Marines in 1945 on Okinawa Island; Theodore Dimas of the Army in 1945 in the Philippine Islands; Joe William Evans of the Marines in 1942 on Midway Island; William Fennemore of the Army in 1943 on New Guinea Island; George Golesh of the Marines in 1944 in Murray, Utah; Frank Hunter of the Air Force in 1943 in Italy; Rex Johnson of the Navy in 1944 in Roosevelt, Utah; Malcom Rose, a Seabee, in 1945 on Iwo Jima Island; Earnest Sheen of the Air Force in 1944 on Truck Island; Jay D. Smith of the Marines in 1944 in Philippine waters; Sam Tenorio of the Marines in 1944 in the Marianas Island; Lawrence West of the Army in 1944 in Philippine waters; and Jack Whitten of the Army in 1944 in Germany. Citizens of Bingham Canyon also helped make possible a permanent shrine on the submerged hull of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor, honoring the 1,102 naval heroes of December 7, 1941, and on July 4, 1946, the people of Bingham District paid tribute to the American soldiers, sailors, and marines who fought and fell in World War II.

Copperton, Utah · United States