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Welcome to the Virginia War Memorial’s Virginia Heroes database. This online resource is a comprehensive list of Veterans both in Virginia and across the country who wish to be represented.

This list includes all of Virginia’s Heroes who made the supreme sacrifice from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf and whose names are etched in stone and glass on the walls of the Shrine of Memory. Their records are indicated by a gold star.

Staffers and volunteers at the War Memorial continue to research the names and personal histories of Virginia’s fallen. As we learn more about these brave men and women, we will continue to add information to this database so that their stories may never be forgotten.

To submit your personal service record information, or that of any other Virginia veteran, living or deceased, please use the Veteran Updates form and submit to the Memorial for inclusion.

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Raymond Melvin Randolph

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Richmond City, VA
Casualty Date: March 23, 1945
Died In: Europe
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William F. Randolph

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Tazewell County, VA
Casualty Date: December 11, 1944
Died In: France
Awards: Purple Heart
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William M. Randolph

Master Sergeant, Army


Died In: N/A
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Benjamin O. Randolph, Jr.

Private, Army

Hometown: Clarke County, VA
Casualty Date: December 24, 1944
Died In: Belgium
Awards: Purple Heart
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Erneset R. Randolph, Jr.

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Norfolk County
Casualty Date: June 16, 1945
Died In: Okinawa
Awards: Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge
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Francis B. Rang

Major, Army

Hometown: James City County, VA
Casualty Date: July 14, 1943
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Medal
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Luther A. Ranier

Army

Hometown: Mathews County
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Earsel L. Rankin

Private, Army

Hometown: Augusta County
Casualty Date: October 15, 1944
Died In: Italy
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Edward Garry Rankin

Private First Class, Army

Born: January 30, 1947
Hometown: Waynesboro, VA
Casualty Date: September 16, 1966
Died In: South Vietnam
Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Purple Heart, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal

PFC Rankin served as a light weapons infantryman in A Company, 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 1732d Airborne Brigade. He died from a gunshot wound received in hostile ground action.

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Robert Rankin

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Rockingham County
Casualty Date: May 19, 1951
Died In: Republic of Korea
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Charles Anthony Ransom

Major, Air Force

Born: May 4, 1979
Hometown: Midlothian
Casualty Date: April 27, 2011
Died In: Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan

Major Ransom served with the 83rd Network Operations Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. He was killed by an Afghan military trainee. He was a 2001 graduate of Virginia Military Institute. He is buried in First Baptist Church Cemetery, Midlothian, Virginia.

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John N. Ranson

Specialist 4, Army

Hometown: Richmond City
Casualty Date: December 22, 1969
Died In: South Vietnam
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Wilbur Louis Ranson

Private First Class, Marine Corps

Hometown: Buckingham County, VA
Died In: Iwo Jima

Served with the 3rd Marine Division.

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Marvin Lee Ransone

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Lancaster County, VA
Casualty Date: April 30, 1945
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Nicholas Paul Rapavi

Corporal, Marine Corps

Born: September 26, 1984
Hometown: Springfield, VA
Casualty Date: November 24, 2006
Died In: Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Awards: Purple Heart

Corporal Rapavi served with the 2nd Battalion, 89th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was killed by small arms fire. He was keeping his squad back while putting himself in harms way by going through a gate first during a situation he thought was suspicious. He …

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Alfred Milton Rapp

Corporal, Army

Born: March 13, 1923
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Casualty Date: April 19, 1945
Died In: the South Pacific

CPL Rapp served with the Quartermaster Corps. He graduated from Western High School in Washington, D.C. and attended the American Telephone & Telegraph Company business school. He enlisted in the Army in November 1942. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Donald R. Rash

Private First Class, Marine Corps

Hometown: Tazewell County
Casualty Date: March 30, 1968
Died In: South Vietnam
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Melvin D. Rash

Chief Master Sergeant, Air Force

Hometown: York County
Casualty Date: June 29, 1978
Died In: near Muang Nong, Salavan Province, Laos
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Oscar S. Rash

Chief Water Tender, Navy

Hometown: Norfolk City
Casualty Date: October 25, 1944
Died In: off Samar, Philippine Islands
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John Willis Rasnake

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Russell County, VA
Casualty Date: August 5, 1944
Died In: St Lo, France
Awards: Purple Heart
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