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

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CPI.. PFC. ENS. it CLIFFO A. MARIK Central. , XVith the United States Marines in the South Pacific Area. Killed in action in the Marshall Islands. February ZZ. 1944. Purple Heart. CLARENCE FRED MAISAK Central. '42, With the United States Army in the European Area. Killed in action in Ger- many. November 19, 1944. Purple Heart. XVILLIAM ARTHUR R. MORSE Central. '33, With the United States Naval Re- serve Air Corps. Killed in plane crash over Melbourne. Fla.. November 18. 1943. S IXC. THOMAS A. NARROW. JR. L. Central. 437. Vkfith the U. S. S. Submarine Argonaut in the South Pacific Area. Met death on January IO. 1943. when his submarine was sunk in Pacific waters. Presidential Citation. Purple Heart. XVALTER LINN NUCKLES Central. '34. Pilot with the United States Army Air Forces. Killed in a plane crash over the Blue Mountains near Pendleton. Oregon. Decem- ber 20. 1943. PFC. WALTER H. PANNIER Central. '36. With the United States Army. in Italy. Killed in action in Italy, February 1, 1944. WALTER PAUL PETRING Central. 438. With the United States Merchant Marine. Made one successful trip abroad. Lost when his ship. en route to Port Arthur, Texas. was torpedoed and sunk. June 10, 1943. CPL. ROBERT J. PREISSLER Central, 439. With the United States Marines in Bougainville. Guam, and Iwo Jima. Killed in action on Iwo Jima. The time and manner of his death are as yet unknown. FIXC JOSEPH A. SCHMIDERER, JR. Central.lf38. With the United States Navy, in the Western Pacihc Area. Lost his life when his ship. the U. S. S. Hull. went down in a typhoon in the South China Sea. December 18. 1944. SXSGT. LOUIS W. SCHULTE Central. 438. With the United States Army Air Corps in England. Killed June 19. 1944. Cause and place of death unknown. Distinguished Fly- ing Cross. Four Oak Leaf Clusters. Air Medal. Purple Heart. PFC. MARVIN EUGENE SHINALI.. Central, '44, With the United States Army in France. Killed in action by machine-gun fire. in Eastern France. March 15, 1945. SGT. SAMUEL BOYD STARR Central, '34, Gunner on bombing missions with the United States Army in North Africa. Was with the 12th Air Force. the first to land in Egypt. and operated with the British 8th Army. Saw action throughout the Egyptian Campaign. Was killed in North Africa by the explosion of a land mine, January 13. 1943. Died in a field hospital and is buried in Tripoli, Libya. Purple Heart. Air Medal Citation of Honor. Presi- dential Citation signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. LT. F. NORMAN STOCKHO Central. '31, Pilot with the United States Army Air Force. Killed in a bomber crash over MacDill Field, at Tampa. Florida. July 21, 1943. CPL. WILLARD C. STRAUB Central. '39. In service thirty-two months with the United States Marines. twenty-five months in the South Pacific Area. Was in three major battles: Bougainville. Guam. Iwo Jima. Killed in action at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Febru- ary 26, 1945. Presidential Citation, Purple Heart. . SEAMAN IIC NATALE TORTI Central. '41, Mechanic with the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor. Killed in the Japanese attack there, December 7, 1941. PFC. ROBERT VOCKER LT. J LT. J PFC. -'I 1 PF Central. '39, With the United States Army in the European Theatre. Killed in action Septem- ber 10. 1944. in Belgium. Purple Heart. OSCAR E. VROMAN Central. '33, With the United States Army in domestic and foreign service. Leader of a ma- chine-gun platoon. Killed in action. in Cher- bourgh. France. June 17, 1944. Purple Heart. STANLEY WALISZEWSK1 Central, '34. With the United States Army Air Corps, 364th Bombing Squadron, in England. Killed in a raid over Germany, February 26. 1943. Purple Heart. JOSEPH STANLEY WARZYCKI Central. '41, With the United States Marines in the Pacific theatre of action. A flame thrower, during the last five months of his service. Shot through the head by an enemy sniper on Guam, of the Mariana Islands. August 5, 1944. Purple Heart posthumously awarded. LAURENCE R. WEIR Central. '34, With the United States Army in England. Killed instantly when his ship. en route to the European Area. was torpedoed while crossing the English Channel. April 28, 1944. PVT. ROBERT J. WINDISH if LT Central. '38, Sharpshooter with the United States Marines. Killed aboard the Battleship Ari- zona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Purple Heart. FRANK I. YAWITZ Central. '34, With the United States Army somewhere in England. Killed in line of duty in Blackmore. England. September 24. 1944. Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Medal, Purple Heart. PVT. EDWARD D. ZERFACE Central. '37, With the United States.Army Engineers in Italy. Died of wounds received in battle, January 29, 1944. Purple Heart. B. M. 17C CHESTER ZWILLING Central, '37, With the Coast Guard Division of the United States Navy. Killed in an accident off Norfolk, Virginia. August 27, 1944-

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701 CPL. ABE H. ALEXSEVITZ Central, '33, With the United States Army in the South Pacinc Area. Died of wounds received in action. May 31, 1944, at Aitape, New Guinea. Purple Heart. PFC. CONRAD H. BORGMANN. JR. Central, 434. With the United States Army, Cavalry Division. in Germany. Killed in action in Germany, March 18, 1945. Purple Heart. SXSGT. HOWARD W. BRANHAM Central, 439. With the 15th Air Force of the United States Army in Italy. Killed in a bomber crash in North Italy, May 23. 1944. Air Medal, Three Oak Leaf Clusters. Purple Heart. J SXSGT. ARTHUR BROSIUS Central '33, With the United States Army in Germany. Died March 25, 1945, as the result of injuries received in action. March 24, 1945. in Germany. PFC. ELMER P. BUEHRIG, JR. Central. '37. With the United States Army in the Philippines. Killed in action at Bataan, January 17, 1942. Distinguished Service Cross. Purple Heart. PFC. CLYDE K. COOLEY Central, 'l'43. With the United States Army in France. Killed in France. February 28. 1945. Cause unknown. Purple Heart. Combat Infan- tryman's Badge. PFC. JOHN CRIMI Central, '40. With the United States Army in France. Killed in action in France, September 14, 1943. Purple Heart. PILOT OFFICER WILLIAM LEE DAVIS Central, '35. With the American Eagle Squad- ron of the Royal Air' Force, operating in Eng- land. Killed in a plane crash over the English Channel. March 18, 1941. six weeks after leaving the United States for England. The first of Cen- tral's heroic dead to make the supreme sacrihce. VSXSGT. CHARLES J. DOVE Central. '39, With the Eighth Army Air Force operating from England. Missing. October 20. 1943. in action over France. Oflicially declared dead. Air Medal, Purple Heart. JENS. CLAUDE J. DUVALL, JR. Central. '4-0. Editor-in-chief of the 1940 RED AND BLACK. Pilot with the United States Naval Air Corps at Quonset Point, R. I. Killed in an airplane collision. April 18, 1944, thirty-eight miles at sea off Nantucket Island. PFC. ROBERT M. ELLIA Central. '44. With the United States Army in the South Pacific Area. Killed in action at the battle of the Leyte Island Landing. October 22, 1944. LT. JAMES A. FITZSIMMONS Central. '40. With the Army Air Corps operat- ing in Italy. Killed in a plane crash in Italy, February 6. 1944. LT. WILLIAM MORTIMER GORDON J Central, '33. With the 17th Regiment of the United States Navy, as Head of the Malariology Unit 63, serving the invading Seabees. Killed March 4, 1944, by shrapnel. in a foxhole. at Los Negros, on the Admiralty Islands. Purple Heart. PFC. HARRY R. HAFNER L . Central, 433. With the United States Army in France. Killed in action in France, November 12, 1944. Two Purple Hearts. LOUWANDA HARRIS Central, '37, With the United States 69th Gen- eral Hospital in the India-Burma-China Theater. Killed in a plane crash at Ledo Assam, India. March 4, 1945, PVT. FRANK W. HARROW Central. 435. With the United States Army of Invasion. Co. A. 134th Infantry, in Belgium. Died in Luxembourg, on January 8, 1945, of wounds received in battle. Purple Heart. T CH. SGT. KENNETH H. HUNDELT PPC. PFC. if Central, '40, The Washington University Schol- astic Winner of his class. With the United States Rangers in Sicily and Italy. Died of wounds received in action somewhere in Italy. Novem- ber 13, 1943. Purple Heart. WILLIAM A. JOHNSON Central, t 4l. With the 4th Marine Division in the Central Pacific. Killed in action in the Mar- shall Islands: exact datc unknown. Purple Heart. ROBERT H. KERKEMEYER Central, '41, With the United States Army, 504th Parachute Infantry, in the European Area. Killed in action by machine-gun tire in Belgium, January 7, 1945. Purple Heart. ENS. ROBERT A. KINKER I if Central. '39, With the United States Navy at the Naval Air Station, Wildwood. N. J. Killed in an aeroplane crash, Wildwood, N. J.. Thurs- day morning, October 26, 1944. SXSGT. WALTER J. KNOPF Central, X37. With the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific Area. Lost his life July 29, 1944, when his plane sank near Ellice Island, in the Pacific Ocean. Purple Heart. Ci- tation of Honor. PFC. SIDNE . KOLTUN Q: Central. With the United States Army Air Forces in Newfoundland. Iceland. and England. Killed in a plane crash over the Eastern seaboard, July 18, 1942. -SXSGT. CARL KRAIL Central. 4439. With the United States 23rd In- fantry in Belgium and Germany. Killed during a battle of the German invasion in Belgium, December 17. 1944. Two Purple Hearts. TECH. 5 WILLARD C. KREITLER Central, 440. With the United States Army in France. Killed in action in France, October 8, 1944. Purple Heart. C PT. JOSEPH CARL KUICH Central. '36, With the United States Army. Killed in army vehicle accident at Camp Polk, Shreveport. La., in August, 1943. PFC. CHARLES H. LUTZ Central, '41. With the United States Army in Germany. Killed by enemy shell Ere in Germany. April 9. 1945. IXIOIEI Cenlral graduates are indicated as follows: 70m Brown. 47: Cvnlral u'r'rhdrau.'als, as follows. Tom Brown. '-15.

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THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Ruth Abstein, '40 Roger Ackermann. '41 Harry Agress, '25 Henry Aguado. '33 Robert L. Akin, '43 Alfred H. Alberda. 1 4l Lloyd Allan, '36 Edgar L. Allison. 4:35 Carl Althofer. 440 Wilbur L. Altman. '42 Sam Amato. '40 Pete Anagnos, '40 Frank Annis. '44 Violet Ancell, '38 Thomas J. Anders. '39 Oliver A. Andreas, '38 Harry Anselmo, '33 Eli Appel, '35 Joseph P. Arcipowski. '29 Roman S. Arcipowski, 'F40 Vernon A. Arms, '33 Arthur Astl, 4:41 John W. Aubuchon. :4l Norman Aubuchon. 41 Harry Avirom. 4:31 Morris Avirom, '29 Stanley E. Bacon. '41 Carl Baczenas, '42 James Edward Bailey. '39 Clifford Baker. '41 Elvin H. Baker. '41 Macon Baker, '44 Martin Balven. '40 Woodrow Barbey. 35 Edmund Barczewski. 37 Carmen Barresi, '38 Joseph Barresi. '38 Robert P. Barrett, '41 John Barrow. 37 Norbert Bartsch. 40 Wayne E. Batteiger. '40 William B. Baum. 36 Norma Jean Beck, '39 Oliver Becker. '39 Edward F. Beiter. '38 Arthur R. Bell. '42 WLM Lt. Gray administers the U. S. Navy Radio Technicians and Air Crew'men's Test to Centralites, November 29, 1944 Samuel Milbourne Bell, 4442 Elmer Belsha. '41 William Bendorf. '39 Richard M. Benedict. 4:42 Edward Berger. '36 Robert L. Bergmann. '44 Ben S. Bernabe. '31 Wilbert Bernabe. '39 Frederick C. Berner. X41 Elmer H. Bertsch. '42 Leo Biasi. 4:33 Richard H. Bielicke, '43 Harry Binkin. '30 Syl Binkin. 4:32 J. D. Blacksher. '39 Charles W. Blaylock, '35 Jack G. Bliesener, '36 Harry Block. '33 Robert V. Bloomner. '37 Paul Blumencamp, '42 Warren A. Boecklen, '34 Al Boedeker. X33 Irwin C. Boedeker. '40 Lilly Boedeker. '37 Raymond Paul Boehm, '40 Raymond W.,Boehm. '34 Melvin Boehmer, '42 Willie Bolanovich, '32 Warren H. Bolender, '41 Louis Bonacorsi. '38 Howard W. Bond, '41 James R. Bonfils. '43 Joseph Bono. '32 Pete Bono. '39 Kenneth Bopp. '42 Otto Borgers. X40 Arthur Bortnic. '25 John P. Bowers. '40 Wesley Earl Brandel. '28 August Brandt. '35 Oliver O. Brandt, 'I38 Howard W. Branham. 4:38 David Braverman, '40 Raymond Breckenkamp, '42 Raymond R. Bredenkamp. '44 Wilfred Bredenkoetter, '36 17 James T. Brennan, '32 Warren Bresnahan, H236 Ralph H. Brindley, '40 Marcus Brinkerhoff. '33 Charles Brockman. '33 Arthur Brosius, '33 John H. Bromwich. '44 Kenneth A. Brown. '26 Thomas O. Brown, '30 Jerome A. Bruening. 'F37 Arnold D. Brumnet, X38 George K. Bruns, '43 Frank Buchanan, '39 Kenneth C. Buchanan. '3l Arthur J. Buechele, X34 Russell E. Buechele, X35 George Morell Buehlmaier. '37 Orville T. Buehlmaier. X31 Elmer P. Buehrig. 4137 Fred H. Buhrman. '37 Richard Buhrman. '33 Albert Louis Burgdorf. '45 Robert A. Burns. '39 Kenneth L. Burstein. '44 Robert M. Busche. '43 Kenneth E. Bussmeyer. '36 Calvin L. Button, 4:39 Anthony Buzzotta, '42 John William Byrne, '40 Thomas J. Cadell. '36 Victor A. Callahan, '38 Donald W. Camp, '36 Robert Campbell. '45 Sam Candela. 4440 William Cannon. '43 Frank Caradona, '39 Vito Caradona, '42 William Cardona, '41 John Carapella, '37 Peter Carapella. '38 Venture Caravello. '38 Robert Carpenter. '40 John Carrabino. '36 Emanuel Cassimatis. '33 John P. Cassimatis. '39 Vincent J. Castelli. '34