Milton Howard Fussell III (1923-1945)

Milton Fussell was born on April 20, 1923 and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Swarthmore High School he entered Dickinson in the fall of 1941, and became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Then he enlisted in the Marines and was assigned, along with fellow Dickinsonian James Dieffenderfer, to the V-12 unit at Franklin and Marshall, where he graduated with a Dickinson degree in March 1944.

Fussell trained at Parris Island, South Carolina and at Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina; both he and Dieffenderfer were commissioned on October 1, 1944. The two men were assigned to Guadalcanal in late December. Fussell participated in the attack on Okinawa and was killed in action on May 27, 1945. Dieffenderfer had been killed twenty-five days earlier.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).