World War 2 (1939 – 1945)

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world’s countries – including all the great powers – eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 70 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

This section of the Close Ancestry Hall of Fame contains all those Closes who had a role in World War 2 between 1939 and 1945.

• Alan Stanley White (1925) – World War 2
• Albert Elton Close (1918) – World War 2
• Albert Harold Close (1878) – World War 2
• Albert Stephen Close (1924) – World War 2
• Allan M Close (1885) – World War 2
• Allen Oliver Close (1921) – World War 2
• Allen Thomas Close (1917) – World War 2
• Alton Edward Close (1923) – World War 2
• Alvin Loyd White (1925) – World War 2
• Arthur Buckley Close (1896) – World War 2
• Arthur Devillow Close (1882) – World War 2
• Arthur Harry Huron Close (1910) – World War 2
• Arthur Leeland Close (1882) – World War 2
• Augustus Jonathan Close (1904) – World War 2
• Benedict Jackson Close (1923) – World War 2
• Benjamin Franklin Close (1881) – World War 2
• Benjamin Franklin Close (1892) – World War 2
• Benjamin Franklin Close (1895) – World War 2
• Bert Dent Close (1879) – World War 2
• Burdette Eugene Close (1910) – World War 2
• Burton Clarence Close (1889) – World War 2
• Burton Edgar Close (1915) – World War 2
• Burton Gernell Close (1887) – World War 2
• Carl Eugene Benson (1916) – World War 2
• Charles Benjamin Close (1879) – World War 2
• Charles Close (1888) – World War 2
• Charles Close (1891) – World War 2
• Charles Dolbow Close (1914) – World War 2
• Charles Le Roy Close (1890) – World War 2
• Charles Lockwood Close (1882) – World War 2
• Charles Monteith Close (1919) – World War 2
• Charles Richard Close (1898) – World War 2
• Charles Ronald Close (1919) – World War 2
• Clarence Orval White (1916) – World War 2
• Claude Claxton Close (1890) – World War 2
• Clayton Knowles Close (1886) – World War 2
• Clifford Edward Close (1910) – World War 2
• Clifford Webster Close (1882) – World War 2
• Clyde Henry Close (1882) – World War 2
• David M Close (1923) – World War 2
• David Palmer Close (1915) – World War 2
• Donald Clayton Close (1924) – World War 2
• Dorothy Louise Close (1924) – World War 2
• Dwight Lyman Close (1885) – World War 2
• Earl Mead Close (1885) – World War 2
• Earl William Close (1908) – World War 2
• Edgar Van Voorhis Close (1916) – World War 2
• Edward J Close (1914) – World War 2
• Edward Murray Close (1902) – World War 2
• Edwin Frank Close (1910) – World War 2
• Edwin Gideon Close (1880) – World War 2
• Edwin Norton Close (1883) – World War 2
• Egbert Bunnell Close (1916) – World War 2
• Egbert W Close (1891) – World War 2
• Ellsworth Earl Close (1920) – World War 2
• Elwood Huron Close (1896) – World War 2
• Ernest Holman Close (1891) – World War 2
• Etna William Close (1894) – World War 2
• Everett Reynolds Close (1879) – World War 2
• Forrest Oliver Dailey (1883) – World War 2
• Frank Calvin Dailey (1917) – World War 2
• Frank Leslie Close (1881) – World War 2
• Frank Lohrer Close (1903) – World War 2
• Franklin Sayre Close (1921) – World War 2
• Fred Walter Close (1882) – World War 2
• Frederick Chester Close (1884) – World War 2
• Frederick Stephen Clowes (1915) – World War 2
• George Burton Close (1915) – World War 2
• George Davis Close (1903) – World War 2
• George Everett Close (1919) – World War 2
• George Francis Close (1896) – World War 2
• George Reynolds Close (1883) – World War 2
• Gordon Hugh Close (1917) – World War 2
• Harland Thomas Close (1915) – World War 2
• Harold Edward Close (1919) – World War 2
• Harold Jackson Close (1895) – World War 2
• Harold Thomas Close (1893) – World War 2
• Harry Jesse Close (1884) – World War 2
• Harry M Close (1888) – World War 2
• Harry Stuart Close (1890) – World War 2
• Hayden Murphy Close (1893) – World War 2
• Henry Joseph Close (1884) – World War 2
• Henry Nelson Clowes (1911) – World War 2
• Henry Pletcher Close (1911) – World War 2
• Herbert Clyde Close (1901) – World War 2
• Herman Lee Close (1911) – World War 2
• Homer Louis Close (1888) – World War 2
• Howard Burdette Close (1880) – World War 2
• Howard Cicero Close (1886) – World War 2
• Howard Denton Dailey (1908) – World War 2
• Howard Elton Close (1925) – World War 2
• Howard Walter Close (1887) – World War 2
• Ira Close (1900) – World War 2
• Irving Watkinson Close (1893) – World War 2
• Isaac Earl Close (1885) – World War 2
• Ivan F Close (1887) – World War 2
• Jabez William Close (1878) – World War 2
• James Garfield Vigar (1882) – World War 2
• James Harvey Close (1886) – World War 2
• James Noel Close (1923) – World War 2
• James Raymond Close (1904) – World War 2
• Jay Reuben Close (1886) – World War 2
• John C Close (1912) – World War 2
• John Gilbert Close (1923) – World War 2
• John Henry Close (1885) – World War 2
• John Manley Close (1881) – World War 2
• John R Close (1926) – World War 2
• John Watkinson Close (1921) – World War 2
• John Wesley Evans (Close) (1883) – World War 2
• Joseph Alvin Close (1922) – World War 2
• Joseph Benjamin Close (1894) – World War 2
• Joseph Cephas Close (1894) – World War 2
• Joseph Clowes (1901) – World War 2
• Junius Benham Close (1889) – World War 2
• Kenneth C Close (1916) – World War 2
• Kenneth Richard Close (Holmes) (1897) – World War 2
• Kevin Dean Close (1924) – World War 2
• Lawrence Close (1915) – World War 2
• Leland Maxwell Close (1893) – World War 2
• Leon Eugene Close (1893) – World War 2
• Leon Eugene Close (1893) – World War 2
• Leonard M Close (1918) – World War 2
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2015
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2016
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2017
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2018
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2019
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2020
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2021
• Lest We Forget – 11 November 2022
• Lewis Raymond Close (1881) – World War 2
• Lewis Samuel Close (1897) – World War 2
• Lispenard Paul Close (1895) – World War 2
• Lloyd E Close (1916) – World War 2
• Lloyd Whistler White (1905) – World War 2
• Loren Jay Close (1921) – World War 2
• Lucien Close (1880) – World War 2
• Lucien Mack Close (1881) – World War 2
• Lucius Augustus Close (1891) – World War 2
• Lyman Withrow Close (1892) – World War 2
• Merle E Close (1883) – World War 2
• Monteith Armour Close (1885) – World War 2
• Morris Isaac Close (1878) – World War 2
• Neil Close (1913) – World War 2
• Nellie May Close (1922) – World War 2
• Oliver Morton Evans (Close) (1886) – World War 2
• Ora Close (1892) – World War 2
• Percy William Close (1884) – World War 2
• Phillip Cashman Close (1914) – World War 2
• Ralph Lorin Close (1917) – World War 2
• Ray Ebin Close (1891) – World War 2
• Raymond Oliver Close (1915) – World War 2
• Reuben Harvey Close (1916) – World War 2
• Reuben Vallard Close (1893) – World War 2
• Reubin Russel Close (1921) – World War 2
• Rex Wilkinson Close (1904) – World War 2
• Richard E Close (1917) – World War 2
• Richard Howard Close (1904) – World War 2
• Richard Randolf Close (1918) – World War 2
• Robert Close (1888) – World War 2
• Robert Eugene Close (1910) – World War 2
• Robert Hamilton Close (1913) – World War 2
• Robert Nelson Close (1926) – World War 2
• Robert Stokley Close (1920) – World War 2
• Roy Clifford Close (1921) – World War 2
• Roy Morris Close (1918) – World War 2
• Salisbury Bertram Close (1917) – World War 2
• Samuel Gardner Close (1887) – World War 2
• Shirley Joyce Close (1927) – World War 2
• Simon Howard Close (1891) – World War 2
• Stanley Eugene White (1906) – World War 2
• Stuart McNaughton Close (1885) – World War 2
• Thomas A Close (1920) – World War 2
• Thomas Cloughes Close (1879) – World War 2
• Thompson Wallace Close (1922) – World War 2
• Thompson Washington Close (1893) – World War 2
• Van Voorhis Close (1885) – World War 2
• Vaughn Henry Close (1883) – World War 2
• Vincent Clayton Close (1891) – World War 2
• Walter Disbro Close (1907) – World War 2
• Walter Erastus Close (1887) – World War 2
• Walter Harvey Close (1914) – World War 2
• Walter John Westcott Close (1891) – World War 2
• Walter Vernon Close (1913) – World War 2
• Wendell Clayton Close (1915) – World War 2
• Wilbur Leo Hemmingar Vigar (1904) – World War 2
• Wiley Claude Close (1892) – World War 2
• William Amos Close (1923) – World War 2
• William Chauncey Close (1877) – World War 2
• William Chester Close (1915) – World War 2
• William Edgar Close (1901) – World War 2
• William Edward Close (1878) – World War 2
• William Epperson Close (1909) – World War 2
• William Franklin Close (1916) – World War 2
• William Henry Close (1896) – World War 2
• William Henry Close (1913) – World War 2
• William John Close (1883) – World War 2
• William John Close (1918) – World War 2
• William Joseph Close (1889) – World War 2
• William Marshall Close (1904) – World War 2
• Wilmot Seward Close (1886) – World War 2

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