Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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I A BOARD OF TRUSTEES MR. PAUL MCC!-XRTY MRS. PENDER MR. IOE SMlTl-l' President Vice-President Secretory MR. GEORGE BARRON MRS. SWiNNEY MR. L. P. COOK MR. HORACE M. CONDLEY STUDENT COUNCIL Benibelle Lewis, Weldon Bdiliti, Dickie White, Edith Boehlert, Bill Frazier, Marjorie Lewis Mrs. Edith C. Smith Mr. Joe C. Humphrey Advisers

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MR. W. RAINEY OWEN, B. S. MR. I. l. MOORE, East Texas State Teachers A. B., B. S , M, S, Part-Time Cooperative Training Hardin-Simmons, Texas A. :St M. Hobby: Fishing Vocational Agriculture Club: Diversified Occupations Hobby: Poultry Club: Future Farmers of America MR- DONLEY STEPHENSON' MR, 1. H. NAIL, A. B., M. A. MR. GEORGE KAERWER, B- S- University of Texas, Federal lourneyman Machinist MCMUTTY Howard Payne Certificate Shop Mechanical Drawing, New Mexico A. St M. Hobby: Athletics Mathematics Hobby: Woodcraft Club: Sophomore Class MRS. LANELLE SHEPPARD MISS Machine Shop Hobby: Woodwork GENEVIEVE THOMPSON Secretary to the Principal Secretary to the Superintendent

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x 'ki-.NX 'ki-k N 'ki-Q, N. x X-F. N lltktla 'kt n Q, N . ic it . x 'W 'tt lkhlltlwl X :QQ N9 A Sflamilfg Kraufn af youth Lieutenant William R. Agnew, Troop B. 113th Cavalry, killed in Germany, October 14, 1944. Technical Sergeant Curry Allen, Marine Corps Air Force, killed on Bougain- ville, on November 1, 1944. Lieutenant Alto L. Baker, killed in a plane crash at Victorville, California, on September 19, 1942. Staff-Sergeant Hugh E. Balfanz, 725th Squadron, 45lst Bomb Group, killed near Luxembourg, on October 4, 1944. Flight Officer Buddy Bob Beasley, 33rd Ferrying Command, killed December 15, 1944, when his airplane crashed into Lake Pepin, at Pepin, Vtfisconsin. Sergeant R. L. Berry, 394th Squadron, killed in Luxembourg, on lanuary 23, 1945. Lieutenant lames E. Bilberry, navigator of bomber, died in an airplane crash, at Biggs Field, El Paso, October 24, 1943. Second Lieutenant George H. Blackburn, lr., 368th Figher Squadron, 359th Fighter Group, killed while guarding Remagen Bridge, in Germany, on March 10, 1945. Second Lieutenant Claude F. Brewster, a flying instructor at Olathe, Kansas, died in an airplane crash near Abilene, Texas, on May 14, 1944. Pharmacist Mate Third Class Calvin Brooks, Second Marines, killed on Saipan, on lune 17, 1944. Sergeant Leahmon Bryant, 422 Squadron, 305th Group, killed over Europe, on December 6, 1942. T-5 Stanley Coppinger, Harbor Craft Service, killed on Saipan, on April 2, 1945. Private lewel D. Craig, 31st Division lnfantry, H. Company, killed on a lap prison ship, on October 24, 1944. Private First Class Walter A. Edwards, 44th Division, Seventh Army, died of wounds, in France, on lanuary 7, 1945. Corporal Charles M. Ellis, Radio Specialist in the Signal Corps, killed in a truck accident in North Africa, on lanuary ll, 1943. Private Dennis Ross Francis, Army Air Force, killed in an airplane crash in California, on February 6, 1942, Ensign M. D. tChuckl Francis, U. S. N., killed in the Pacific near Biak, on lune 12, 1944. Lieutenant Thomas Rex Francis, 8th Air Force, killed over Hamburg, Ger- many, on May 14, 1944. Seaman First Class Harold Lloyd Freeman, U. S. S. destroyer Braine, killed forty miles off Okinawa, on May 27, 1945. Seaman First Class S. G. Gentry, U. S. S. Houston, killed in action, February 28, 1942. Private lustin Gray served on Bataan and died in a Japanese prison camp after the Death March. Captain Rudyard Kipling Grimes, M Company, 57th lnfantry, Philippine Scouts, died in prison camp Number One, Cabanatuan, Philippines, in the sum- mer oi 1942. Private Bernie Hagins, Company A, F Infantry, killed on Attu, on May 19, 1943. Second Lieutenant lames Randolph Haile, 379th Bomb Squadron, 534th Bomb Group, killed near Frieburg-Breisgau, Germany, on luly 12, 1944. Sergeant Willie F. Heleman, Motor Transport Service, Persian Gulf Command, killed in a motorcycle accident at Abilene, Texas, on March 25, 1945. Sergeant loseph D. Heleman, who had completed fifty missions in the Army Air Force in ltaly, killed in a motorcycle accident at the Abilene Municipal Air- port, Abilene, Texas, on March 25, 1945. Sergeant Roy P. Hervey, lr., 29th Pursuit Squadron, died on Bataan, lune l, 1944. Cadet William T. Holliday, A. A. F. T. D., Class 43-F, killed in an airplane crash at La Grange, Georgia, on March 31, 1943. Seaman Second Class Freeman Holly, died at a naval hospital at Newport, Rhode lsland, on November 27, 1943. Private First Class Robert Height lackson, Third Army, died in Luxembourg, February 15, 1945. Lieutenant Robert Stanley larrell, 22nd Fighter Squadron, 524th Fighter Group, killed in an airplane crash in Leipzig, Germany, on April 19, 1945. First Lieutenant Robert Eugene lay, Pilot lnstructor, Army Corps, killed in an accident on a cross-country flight near Memphis, Tennessee, on April 17, 1945. Lieutenant Granville lohnson, Naval Air Corps, lost in an airplane crash in the South Pacific in lune, 1944. Sergeant Le Von R. lohnson, 15th Air Force, 301 Bomb Squadron, killed over Piombino, ltaly, on April 23, 1944. Corporal Sam R. Iohnston tRhoades Chalkerl, killed in ltaly, on March 29, 1945, while testing a bomber. Flight Sergeant Carson lordan, 434th Squadron, killed in Germany, on August 18, 1943. Cadet Fred Keathley, Flight B, Squadron 18, died April 23, 1943, at Santa Ana Army Air Base. First Lieutenant Guy Harmon Kemper, fighter pilot in the Marine Air Corps, killed while returning from Rabaul, New Britain, on December 19, 1943. ' GLW