James Andrews, Jr. served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He piloted a Liberator B-24 bomber and participated in the first raid on Wake Island in December 1942. He was the veteran of 66 combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was killed when his airplane crashed in the central Pacific, near Ella in the Caroline Islands on March 5, 1944.