Princeton University alum James Schaefer ’40 died in the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Schaefer was a member of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. As far as we know, he is the only Princeton alum serving in the military to have died on D-Day.
Image from Undergraduate Alumni Records 1921-2015 (AC199)













