Veterans' Memorial Project

Willard (Bud) Sydenham Dodsworth

Franklin, IL

World War II

College: Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences

Graduation Year: 1944

Service Branch: Navy

Rank: Aviation Machinist's Mate, Third Class

Date of Birth: 08/01/1924

Date of Death: 05/19/1945

Affiliations: Alpha Tau Omega

His bomber group was based in Leyte, and he was on a B-24 Liberator that didn’t return from a run in the South China Sea. He received the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, an American Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal. He is listed as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea. His name, along with those of many others, is inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines, which is 162 acres, 6 miles SE of Manila’s downtown, south of what used to be Ft. William McKinley.

– submitted by Clark Dodsworth, Jr., nephew

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