Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

Page 23 text:

EZVLCZ V

Page 22 text:

ERE We Have a list of them, Janie, our fighting boys from Central. Why, I still remember many of them. Among them there is Lieutenant Arthur Muth, the soldier lad who felt so greatly honored when we asked him to pose for us, representing all his hundreds of fellow Centralites in service. These heroes helped to lay the foundation of our world today. 'We can thank them again and again, but words cannot express our deep gratitude for what they did. They left their civilian life, they went forth and did their job magnificently. Some of them came back unscathed, some returned wounded, and some of them did not come back at all-

Page 24 text:

THEY G!-IVE THEIR LIES 4 4 4 4 4 PFC. ELMER P. BUEHRIG, JR. Central, '37. Xkfith the United States Army in the Philippines. Killed in action at Bataan, January 17, 1942. Distinguished Service Cross. Purple Heart. SIDNEY COHEN Central, '35, With the United States Army Air Forces. Reported killed in a plane crash over the Eastern seaboard in April of this year. Definite details lacking. XVILLIAM LEE DAVIS Central, '33. With the Royal Air Force, operating in England. Killed in a plane crash over the English Channel, six weeks after leaving the United States for England. S SGT. CHARLES J. DOVE Central, '39. With the Eighth Army Air Force operating from England. Missing, October 20, 1943, in action over France. Officially declared dead. Air Medal, Purple Heart. LT. JAMES A. FITZSIMMONS Central, 440. With the Army Air Corps operating in Italy. Killed in a plane crash in Italy, February 6, 1944. SGT. KENNETH H. HUNDELT Central, '4O. The Washington University Scholarship Winner of his class. With the United States Rangers in Sicily and Italy. Died of wounds received in action some' where in Italy, November 13, 1943. Purple Heart. PFC. WILLIAM A. JOHNSON Central, '41. With the 4th Marine Division in the Central Paciic. Killed in action in the Marshall Islands, exact date unknown. Purple Heart. JOHN w. KUICH Central, '32. With the United States Navy. Killed in line of duty. CPL. CLIFFORD A. MARIK Central, '30, With the United States Ma' rines in the South Paciic Area. Killed in action in the Marshall Islands, February 22, 1944. WILLIAM ARTHUR MORSE Central, '33. With the United States Army Air Force. Killed in an air crash over Mel- bourne, Florida. LT. WALTER LINN NUCKLES Central, '34. Pilot with the United States Army Air Forces. Killed in a plane crash over the Blue Mountains near Portland, Oregon. WALTER PAUL PETRING Central, '35. With the United States Mer' chant Marines. Made one successful trip abroad. Lost when his ship, en route to Port Arthur, Texas, was torpedoed and sunk, June 10, 1943. SGT. SAMUEL BOYD STARR Central, '34. Gunner on bombing missions with the United States Army in North Africa. Saw action in a bomber raid over France, August, 1942. Killed by the explof sion of a land mine, January 13, 1943. Purf ple Heart. Air Medal Citation of Honor. LT. F. NORMAN STOCKHO Central, 9531. Pilot with the United States Army Air Force. Killed in a bomber crash over MacDill Field, in Florida, July 21, 1943. NATALE TORTI Central, 3 4O. S Ifc Mechanic with the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor. Killed there December 7, 1941. ROBERT WINDISH Central, '38. Enlisted with the United States Marines, in January, '41. Left for an assignment in the Paciic, January 7, 1942. Reported missing. Oihcially declared dead. EDWARD D. ZERFACE Central, 3 37. With the United States Army Engineers in Italy. Died of wounds received in battle, January 29, 1944. Purple Heart.