World War II Honoree

Orville Ray Herrington

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Paragon, Indiana

Honored By

Richard Lewis Blanton, Jr., Major, USAF

Relationship

Cousin

Sergeant, Company M, 30th Infantry Battalion assigned to the Infantry Replacement Training Center (IRTC), training soldiers at Fort McClellan, Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama after having spent 27 months in Panama. Died from injuries received from flying shrapnel from an erratic 81 mm mortar shell during an authorized training session on the Morrisville field maneuvers area on August 4, 1945.