During World War II a banner with a gold star was presented to the families of the fallen. Over 421,000 Americans from large urban areas to small rural communities perished between 1941 and 1945 when the world was at war. Oneonta is one of the many small communities spread across the United States that had its young people participate in this war and some of these individuals did not return alive. These are the fallen.
Historians James B. Greenberg and Paul R. Baumann collected as much historical material as possible to share the stories of each of the fallen soldiers from Oneonta.
