To honor the men and women who flew and trained at Luke Field, Arizona, during World War II.

KIAs

Research into the 9,126 cadet names contained in the 24 Class Books loaded at lukefieldaz.com resulted in 585 airmen who were Killed in Action (KIA), and an additional 8 Died of Wounds. A “+” symbol indicates that airman Died of Wounds. A “*” indicates the airman was a Prisoner of War prior to being killed.

The main source was the War Department’s Honor List of Dead and Missing by state as of January 31, 1946.

Multiple Service numbers (#) indicate the first one is probably the cadet’s Army Enlistment number; if the number starts with T- it is their Flight Office Service number; if the number starts with O- it is their Officer Service number (some source use an A instead of an O-).

Some cadets took more than one class to complete their training. Their graduation class is listed first. There were many reasons why a cadet might not finish with his initial class. The most likely cause was due to illness or injury.

The dates are in a year, month, day sequence, i.e., yyyymmdd. Thus, 14 July 1944 would be 19440714.

SOURCES: Luke Field Class Books; National Archives WWII Army & Army Air Casualties https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/army-casualties; National Archives WWII Army Enlistment records https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=WR26&bc=,sl;