The World War II Dead of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

More than 260 UCLA students, facility and alumni were killed in World War II; only Harvard University suffered more casualties. This includes four brothers of Upsilon who are listed below.

“To all of the veterans of the Greatest Generation, I add my humble thanks to countless others whose freedom you bought with your lives…

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Sigma Pi-Upsilon brothers
Dec 12, 1942, LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE LISTON R. COMER, JR, flying from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, was killed on a practice flight when his aircraft crashed into Mount Mou on the island of New Caledonia in the Pacific.

May 24, 2943, 2nd LT ROBERT “ACE” CALKINS, of the 341st Bomb Squadron, died as a POW in a military hospital at Lucca, Italy.

Sept 9, 1943, 1st LT DONALD L. HESSE, of the Air Transport Command, was killed with his aircraft exploded in mid-air over Accra, in what was then known as the ‘Gold Coast’ area of Africa.

Jul. 17, 1944, Captain CHARLES LANE DONOVAN died on a stateside aircraft maintenance flight at Forestville, MD.