The Monument at Fort
Wingate Veterans Park was dedicated May 30,
1948 in honor of the 41 students and alumni
of Fort Wingate school who gave their lives
in WWII.
The Begay-Hood American
Legion Post 86 at Fort Wingate was named for
Navajo Code Talker Notah Begay I, and the
515th Coast Artillery's Johnnie Hood, a
Navajo from Pinedale, New Mexico, who died
at Camp O'Donnell Prisoner of War Camp May
24, 1942. Hood's remains were repatriated
and buried in his home state of New Mexico
in October 1948.
The 200th Coast
Artillery's Jerry Lucero from Taos Pueblo,
died December 12, 1942 at Cabanatuan prison
camp.
515th Coast Artillery
men Frank Duran, from Gamerco, New Mexico,
died July 1, 1942 at Camp O'Donnell; Herbert
Sherman, a Navajo from Twin Lakes, New
Mexico, died July 21, 1942 at Cabanatuan;
and Leo Manuelito, a Navajo from Naschitti,
New Mexico, died December 4, 1944 at Bilibid
Prison. |