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

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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.

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REMEMBER THEM Let them be remembered here. I give their names up to the wind. O Wind! Make them known Everywhere, in all the landM In lake towns and river towns, In seacoast towns smelling like cod and salt, Make them known in the dryfasfdust towns of Kansas, And the warm golden towns of the West, In the green and silver towns of Oregon. Their fame is too great to keep. My hand burns where once I touched The hand of one of them. My heart cries out when I think Of how they laughed And looked about them with gay eyes. Oh, when they were here, They were young and new As rain in the morning. When they were here, They had high hopes clutched in each hand Like a shiny bright dime. They were free! And now they are dead. Q Wind! Carry their names And make it known that they walked here. Let the people remember them, For they gave their youth and their high hopes. Their boyish dreams And their memories of the short past . . . The slim years. They gave everything they had. But they are still free! -Laura Roschke, '44. 17