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The insignia below:  Every stateside Army camp during World War II was defined by a combination of  two or more insignia, one of which was always a Service Command emblem.  Camp Fannin displayed the Eighth Service Command patch, right below, and the Replacement and School Command patch, left, which was the sub-command of the Army Ground Forces which ran all of the ground forces replacement training centers in the country.  The service commands were geographical divisions of the Army Service Forces and did ASF work stateside.  The  Eighth Service Command, with headquarters in Dallas, serviced Army facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico.

Camp Fannin, Texas

 Infantry Replacement Training Center

 U. S. Army, 1943-46

ROLL OF HONOR

of Fannin Veterans who died in uniform during World War II

This website contains the following documents:

• A five-sheet short form of the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor showing the names of Fannin veterans who died in uniform during World War II with serial number and unit assignment at time of death if known.

• A much more detailed version, 30 sheets or more, of the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor containing, where known, the following information arranged by alphabetical code:

• a) hometown or state;
  b) dates and unit at Camp Fannin;
  c) date and place of death;
  d) unit assignment at time of death;
  e) circumstances of death;
  f) places of burial (temporary and permanent);
  g) name and relationship of person(s) submitting information;
  h) miscellaneous information (awards, age at death, etc.)

• Expanded profiles include photos where available. If you have a better photo of a Roll member, send it on and we will use it in place of the one currently showing.  We also add the appropriate division patch to each profile, which we access at Saunders Military Insignia, <http://www.susmi.com>.  A click on a name in the short form raises his expanded profile.

• A nomination form to be used in submitting a name that does not currently appear on the Roll.

• Shoulder patches of U. S. Army infantry divisions and other organizations during World War II. To see them,  push one of the numbered buttons  below at the right: Button 1, 1st through 26th Infantry Divisions; 2, 27th through 63rd Infantry Divisions; 3, 65th through 88th Infantry Divisions; 4, 89th through 106th Infantry Division and the Philipine Division; 5, Infantry units below division size; 6, Artillery and Engineer units; 7, Armored Divisions 1 through 20;  8, Cavalry and Chemical Mortar Battalions.  

We add names of Camp Fannin veterans who died in uniform during World War II and make corrections continuously to our Roll of Honor as new information is provided.

If you have personal knowledge of the death in uniform of someone else who served at Camp Fannin, please nominate him or her for membership in the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor.

Write to Roll of Honor, 2213 Mendoza Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida 32304-1319 requesting a nomination form or e-mail your request to <ethorne003@comcast.net>.

The Camp Fannin Roll of Honor lists only the names of Camp Fannin veterans whose deaths in uniform during World War II have been documented. We waited until 1991 to form a Camp Fannin Association, which triggered creation of the Roll. Had we acted in 1951 or 1961, we would have had access to a vastly greater body of information and our Roll of Honor would include perhaps hundreds of additional names. But we’re still trying and maybe one day we’ll stumble upon a lode which to this point has never been discovered despite patient, systematic search.

Meantime, we continue to add names which come in – slowly, to be sure, but steadily. The first Roll, published in the Spring 1995 issue of the Association newspaper, Camp Fannin Guidon, listed 26 names. The most recent issue, dated March 22, 2008,  contains 201 names. The most recent names added are Felmer Lonzo Lynn of  Kings Mountain, North Carolina, killed November 2, 1944 in the Huertgen Forest  while fighting with the 28th Infantry Division,  Robert E. Harms of  Pencer, Minnesota, killed September 10, 1944 while fighting with the 29th Infantry Division and Lawrence F. Folden of  Holt, Minnesota, who was killed on September 7, 1944, while fighting with the 8th Infantry Division.  Both died near Coat-Ly-Ogan, Brittany,  France.

It is important to note that trainees were not the only Fannin veterans killed in uniform in World War II. Cadre were regularly reassigned to combat units, and a number of cadre members are to be found on our Roll of Honor, including Col. Martin Barndollar, who was killed in Normandy. He had been commander of the Camp Fannin Branch Immaterial Replacement Training Center (BIRTC) before it was redesignated Camp Fannin Infantry Replacement Training Center (IRTC).

Individual profiles of Roll members are available.  Write or e-mail  for more information

For other Camp Fannin news, go to http://www.campfannin.com.

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03/22/2008

Symbol of a grateful nation's  remembrance of our war dead: Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

Elmer Horne is proud to be curator of the  Camp Fannin Roll of Honor.  But he cannot pose as Webmaster of this <campfanninrollofhonor.com/> website.  His good friend, Ray Colletti, also of Tallahassee, did that job. Ray patiently  attempted to equip Elmer with skills necessary to establish the site, but failing, he took it all on himself, and produced this wonderful professionally-styled site "as a contribution to the World War II generation," as he put it.

Ray is a Systems Project Consultant with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and volunteer Webmaster of a division Toastmasters site and of a site for Theatre A La Carte, a musical theatre company, of which he is also a member of the board of directors and master photographer and videographer.  Ray's and Elmer's paths first converged at Theatre A La Carte, where Elmer once had a role in a show, and which Ray and his family have faithfully served for a dozen years or more.  His wife Caroline is also a member of the Theatre A La Carte board of directors and has had on-stage and off-stage roles in many productions, as have their three children.