Elmer Gedeon, a former three sports star at the University of Michigan, cast his lot with baseball in 1939 and signed with the Washington Senators on June 3. Gedeon was drafted into the U.S. Army in January 1941 before transferring to the U.S. Army Air Force in October of that year. Gedeon, part of the Marauder crew of the 394th Bomb Group, was flying his 13th mission over German-occupied France when his plane was shot down, killing Gedeon and five other crew members. Gedeon was one of two MLB players to be killed in WWII. The other was Harry O’Neill, who played one game for the Philadelphia Athletics. (Gary Bedingfield/US Army)