Theodore Clarion Strouse (1922-1945)

Theodore Strouse was born in Harrisburg in 1922 and graduated from John Harris High School in 1940. He then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1944. He was editor-in-chief of the Dickinsonian and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He left his studies during the last semester of his senior year in February 1943 to enlist in the Army Air Force.

Strouse trained as a bombardier/navigator in Texas and New Mexico, earning his commission in February 1944. He was assigned to the China-India theater, where he flew forty-one missions in B-25 bombers with the 10th Air Force, winning a Bronze Star and two Air Medals in the process. While flying to a rest area as a passenger over India, Strouse's transport aircraft crashed on July 11, 1945, killing him.

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