Name |
Date of Birth Parents |
Details of Service Regiment/Company Other Information |
Keep, Albert |
1906 |
U. S. Army. Pvt, Enlisted Nov. 29,
1943 in |
Keep, Albert |
14 Dec 1906 Albert Keep Alice Lyon Burke |
U. S. Army. Intelligence Corps. |
Keep, Allen |
---- |
U.
S. Army. Enlisted Ft. Leavenworth |
Keep, Allen C. |
1925 |
U. S. Army Enlisted June 21, 1945, Nebraska. |
Keep, Archie L. |
Nov 30,
1928 |
U. S. Marine Corps, Staff Sgt., fought in both WW II and Korea. |
Keep, Calvin A. |
---- |
U. S. Army. From Cherry Valley,
Illinois. Was an expert marksman, and fought in the Normandy invasion, coming ashore on Omaha Beach before going on through
France, Belgium, and Luxembourg to Germany. While in Germany, he was wounded by shrapnel for which he received a Purple Heart. His other decorations were the Bronze Star, Five Battle Stars, and Presidential Unit Citation. |
Keep, Cecil M. |
---- |
U. S. Army. Warrant Officer JG 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division from Yakima County, Washington. Killed in action June 26, 1944
and buried at Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, Plot A, Row 5, Grave 37. |
Keep, Champness Terry Segewick |
18
Feb 1906 Oliver Keep Lucille Davis |
OSS, Mideast and Europe. |
Keep, Charles J. Jr. |
1927 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Ft.
Lewis, |
Keep, Charles M. |
1907 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted as Private Nov. 4, 1942, |
Keep,
Charles Melville |
1 Mar 1907 Charles Melville Keep |
U. S. Army. Quartermaster Corps. |
Keep, Charles R. |
1911 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted June 12, 1943, Pittsburgh. |
Keep, Clarence Andrew |
21 May 1916 Walter William Keep Dollie King |
U. S. Navy. Enlisted in 1942
serving until 1945. |
Keep, Clarence L. |
---- |
U. S. Army. Infantry, POW Germany. Was liberated or repatriated. |
Keep, Claude William |
13
Mar 1897 William Keep Roselyn Whitcomb |
|
Keep, Clinton J. |
March 2, 1922 |
U. S. Army. From Backus, Minnesota. Served from March 1943 to Feb 1946 with the 266th Engineers, 66th Div. Received the Purple Heart, Good Conduct, American Theater, European-African-Middle Eastern Service. Was in the Ardennes Campaign. |
Keep, Donald L. |
1923 |
U. S. Army. From San
Bernardino, Cal. Enlisted Nov 14, 1942 in Los Angeles. |
Keep, Ernest R. |
1922 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Dec. 8, 1943, |
Keep,
Floyd |
1918 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Mar. 17, 1941. |
Keep, Floyd Lewis |
29 Dec 1917 Richard Durrell Nellie Ena Folsom Jones |
U.
S. Army. Enlisted Mar. 20, 1941. Served with General Patton in |
Keep, Francis Jerry |
21 Dec 1919 Edmund
Esselburt Keep Blanche Pearl |
U. S. Navy, Chief Motor Mechanic. Enlisted and served for 4 years and taught engineering in
the Navy. |
Keep, Frederick Cecil |
12 May 1920 Frederick Cecil Rees |
U. S. Army Air Corps. Enlisted in 1942 and served
until January, 1946. |
Keep, George Edward **** |
1924 Walter Albert Keep Pauline V. Freed |
U. S. Army. Was a Surgical Technician and Medical
NCO, S/Sgt, with the 115th General Hospital in England, France, and Germany. His active service was from 1943 to 1945. ****See
Personal Experience pages. |
Keep, Glenn Newton |
23 Jul 1918 Abner Newton Keep Katherine McGregor |
U. S. Army, , Enlisted Jan. 17, 1942, |
Keep, Guy E. |
1915 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Ft. Douglas, |
Keep,
Harry A. |
1916 |
U. S. Army, Enlisted Nov. 18, 1940, |
Keep, Harry A. |
1925 |
U. S. Merchant Marine. |
Keep,
Harry L. |
1928 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Smokey Hill, Kans. Private. |
Keep, Henry |
1894 William John Keep Frances Sarah Henderson |
U.
S. Army, Colonel. |
Keep, Henry Augustus |
20 Dec 1916 Howard Keep ---- |
U. S. Army. Volunteered for the National Guard, was Signal Corps. officer
assigned to the royal Air Force in |
Keep, Henry B. |
1917 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Sept. 16, 1941, |
Keep, Henry, Jr. |
1915 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Mara.
13, 1944, |
Keep, Howard Glen |
Feb 11, 1929 |
U. S. Army. |
Keep, Howard Sanford |
2 Apr 1888 Henry Augustus Isabel Parmenter |
U.
S. Navy. Lt. Commander. |
Keep, Jack M. |
1911 |
U. S. Army. Private. Enlisted in California. Civilian occupation general
industry clerk. |
Keep, Jack M. |
1926 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Los Angeles, Private. |
Keep, James |
1919 |
Private Enlisted
Nov. 12, 1942, from |
Keep, James Derril**** |
Walter Albert Keep Pauline Freed 1926 |
U. S. Navy. B Portland, Ore. ****See Personal Experience pages. |
Keep, James G. |
---- |
U. S. Navy, , Seaman 1st Class, Naval Reserves. From |
Keep, Fames William |
Oct 28, 1910 |
U. S. Navy MM1. |
Keep, Joe |
1914 or 1919 |
U. S. Army. Private Enlisted Apr.
7, 1942. |
Keep, John Jabine |
14 Jul 1916 Clifford Holcombe Keep Elizabeth Jabine |
U. S. Army, , Enlisted Mar. 4, 1941, Sergeant,
4th Infantry Division, 1941-45 |
Keep, Leonard Beryl |
27 May 1920 Charles B. Keep Bertha Tatlow |
U. S. Army Air Corps, , Enlisted Jan.
31, 1946, |
Keep, Lewis |
1926 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Feb. 1, 1945, |
Keep, Maurice |
1917 |
U.
S. Army. Enlisted Dec. 2, 1942, |
Keep, Maurice Roderick |
15 Jan 1917 Abner Newton Keep Katherine McGregor |
U.
S. Army, Private, , |
Keep, Keep, Merna |
1918 |
O.S.D. Enlisted Jan. 11, 1945, |
Keep,
Mildred V. |
Nov 22, 1915 |
U. S. Army. 2nd Lieutenant. |
Keep, Milton Harrington |
5 May 1901 Willie O. Keep Eliza J. McArthur |
U. S. Navy,
Seabees. |
Keep, Oliver Davis |
5 Dec 1902 Oliver Terry Keep Lucille Davis |
U. S. Marine Corp. Capt., South Pacific. |
Keep, Philip Richard **** |
25
Jun 1916 Richard Durrell Keep Nellie Ena Folsom Jones |
U. S. Navy. Ensign and later Commander, Aeronautical Engineer. ****See Personal
Experiences pages.. |
Keep, Ralph |
1918 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Jan. 29, 1941, |
Keep, Ralph L. |
Dec 16,
1916 |
U. S. Army. Private. Enlisted Jan 29, 1941 in Washington State. Civilian occupation, actor. Attained rank
of Sergeant. |
Keep, Raymond |
---- |
U. S. Navy. Lived in Hoffman, Minnesota. |
Keep, Reuben F. |
Mar 19, 1904 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Feb. 27, 1946, |
Keep, Richard |
1922 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Apr. 26,
1943, |
Keep, Richard O. Jr. |
1924 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted July 17, 1943, CP Dodge, Iowa, or Nebraska. |
Keep,
Richard R. |
1927 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Apr. 5, 1945, CP Pickett |
Keep, Richard S. |
1916 |
U. S. Army
Air Corp. Private, enlisted June 18, 1942 at Columbus, Ohio, living at Ashtabula, Ohio. Occupation, farmer. |
Keep, Robert
L. |
1926 or 1927 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Nov. 21, 1945, CP Roberts, Ca., Private. |
Keep, Robert Lee |
13 Jul 1926 Edmund E.
Keep Blanche Pearl |
U. S. Army. Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital. |
Keep, Samuel Ernest |
Dec 20, 1923 |
U. S. Navy |
Keep, Stanley
A. |
1922 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted Mar. 21, 1941, |
Keep, Theodore G. |
1924 |
U. S. Army. Enlisted
Feb. 11, 1942, |
Keep, Vern Dale |
Sept 12, 1923 |
U. S. Army. |
Keep, Wayne W. |
Apr 1, 1922 |
U. S. Marine Corps, Sgt. |
Keep,
William F. |
Dec 15, 1925 |
U. S. Navy MM2. |
Keep, William Franklin |
10 Mar 1925 William Keep Vera Shawley |
U. S. Navy. Torpedoman, USS Ticonderoga. |
Keep,
Willis E. |
Apr 18, 1934 |
U. S. Army Air Corp. |
Notice: In 1973, a terrible fire at the U. S. National Personnel Records Center destroyed military personnel records for 1912
to 1963, some 16 - 18 million records. Searching U. S. records for details for these years is difficult if not nearly impossible. Counties
in the country have some records, but they seem not to be available in a central location and most are not in
electronic form. The following list of Keeps involved in W W II is therefore no doubt very incomplete.
Your
help is badly needed in order to add names to this list, and contacting Bob Warner about your relatives would be extremely helpful.
World War II involved the United States, after 1941, with Britain, members of the British Empire, and most other countries around
the world in a two-front war against Germany and Japan. The map shows the allied countries in shades of green that the United
States joined after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, while the Axis powers are in blue.
War was
immediately declared upon Japan and Germany, followed by a massive industrial reorganization for the war effort and shipment of war
materiel to Northern Africa and Great Britain. In January, 1942, the first American forces arrived in Britain. The first
all-American air attack was made in Europe in August, 1942. In November, 1942, American forces landed in North Africa, which
with the British culminated in the drive up Italy. In June, 1944, Allied forces landed on the North Coast of France, and Germany surrendered
in May 1945. (See the introduction to the British WW II tables for greater detail.)
, other electronic files or materials
from The History Place.
World War II 1939 - 1945
In August, 1942, U. S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the first U. S. amphibious landing in the war. Terrible fighting
then occurred on the mainland and in island hopping invasions, culminating with the final amphibious landing on Okinawa in April,
1945. Land operations ended in March, 1945, with British troops liberating Mandalay, Burma, and General MacArthur announcing
that all Japanese resistance was at an end in the Philippines in June, 1945.
The war against Germany ended on May 8, 1945, and against Japan on August 14, 1945, with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Depending upon the source, the total U. S. military reached 16 million men and women, and the total combat deaths were 417,000.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Admiral Chester Nimitz was appointed Commander
in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, and General Douglas MacArthur was appointed Commander of the Southwest Pacific
Theater.
After the destruction of a great part of American Naval forces at Pearl Harbor, Japan suffered its first major defeat in the Battle
of the Coral Sea in May, 1942, and the turning point of WW II in the Pacific occurred under Adm. Chester Nimitz with the American
victory over the Japanese at Midway Island in June, 1942, destroying almost all of Japan’s irreplaceable aircraft carriers. Otherwise,
Japan had great success with invasions of Pacific islands and Asian mainland.