- SURNAME
Duncan
- FORENAME
William Zephenia,Jr
- UNIT
3 Bn (Orange Combat Team) + 3 Bn (HQ Company)
- RANK
First Lieutenant
- NUMBER
0-1318146
- AWARD
Bronze Star,Purple Heart
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Checotah,McIntosh County,Oklahoma
from Cherokee County,Oklahoma (enlistment)
born 20.8.1920 near Wetumka,Oklahoma (in a tent)
son of William Zephenia and Ada Rose (nee Graves) Duncan
2 years college
school teacher in civilian life since 1941
enlisted 26.9.1942 Oklahoma City,Oklahoma (Private 38270178)
commissioned
WIA 7.3.1944 Burma
graduated Northeastern State University 1946
graduated University of Oklahoma 1951
school teacher for 44 years
principal,McKinley Elementary School (retired 1986)
married Maria Bell 27.6.1940 (died 2005) (4 sons)
died 12.11.2008 Tulsa,Oklahoma
Greenlawn Cemetery,Checotah,McIntosh County,Oklahoma
William Z Duncan (1920-2008) - Find A Grave...
William Z. Duncan, a retired McKinley Elementary School principal and one of the few Merrill's Marauders to survive the China-India-Burma Theater during World War II, died Wednesday. He was 88. Duncan was born in a tent near Wetumka, where his wildcatter parents, Ada (Graves) and William Z...
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