Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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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

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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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Jmperishable Zfhcy Wear Corporal Donald Kilpatrick, Fourth Marine Division, killed or: lwo lima, on March 11, 1945. Private Ronald Knight, Army of the United States, killed on Saipan. Gunner's Mate Third Class Clayton Leach, United States Navy, died of wounds in the Pacific Theater, on luly 19, 1944. Lieutenant lames Emmett Lee, 587th Bomb Squadron, 394th Bomb Group, killed in an airplane crash near Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan, on lanuary 8, 1944. Private First Class Charles Benton Little, Company B, 348th lnfantry Regiment, Third Army, killed in action while carrying messages in Germany, on March 6, 1944. Private Ray Edward McClure, Company l, 35lst lnfantry, 99th Division, killed in Normandy, on luly 7, 1944. Platoon Sergeant Bobby G. McCracken, Ninth Marines, killed on Guam, on luly 27, 1944. Staff-Sergeant Eugene F. Mantooth, Second Division, 38th lnfantry, killed in France, on luly 27, 1944. Lieutenant Melvin Millard, Battery V 200th Coast Artillery, died on a lap prison ship, on October 24, 1944. Lieutenant Bert Don Miller, Squadron 576, 392nd Group, killed over Germany, on March 15, 1944. Private De Oatis K. Moates, died at McCook Field, Nebraska, on lanuary 29, 1945. Captain Thomas Ray Monroe, Test Pilot, killed in a plane crash at New Castle, Delaware, on luly 21, 1945. Private First Class Glen E. Moore, Headquarters Battery, l3lst Division, died in a lapanese prison camp at Kanburi, Thailand, on October 19, 1943. Corporal 1. B. Morrison, 60th Coast Artillery, killed on Corregldor, on Decem- ber 26, 1941. Corporal Walter C. Oughton, killed in an airplane crash at Oliver Springs, Tennessee, on March 19, 1943. Lieutenant William S. Pennington, Squadron 94, Group L, killed in an air- plane crash in England, on October 11, 1942. Corporal lack Perry, killed in the Philippines, on April B, 1942-the day be- fore Bataan fell. Sergeant Earl Proctor, 36th Division, died in Boston, on September 20, 1945. Second Lieutenant W. A. Pruitt, Army Air Force, killed in a flight from India to China, on lune 15, 1944. Lieutenant 1. W. Raynes, Second Marines, killed on Guam, by a lapanese sniper, on Iuly 27, 1944. Flight Officer Milton B. Reese, 21st Bomb Squadron, Saipan, lost on a B-29 raid over Nagoya, on lanuary 14, 1945. Delmon Dee Rice, Army Air Force Reserve, killed in an accident at Stamford Flying Field, on September 28, 1943. Sergeant H. V. Richards, lr., Company F, 495111 Infantry, 102nd Division, killed in the Roer crossing, on February 23, 1945. Second Lieutenant Henry Barrett Roberson, lr., 312th Squadron, killed in an airplane crash in South Carolina, in luly, 1943. Private First Class lvan Pierce Rogers, Third Marines, killed on lwo lima, on March 9, 1945. Captain lonathan N. Routh, 68th Division, lllth Observation Squadron, killed in Sicily, on August 5, 1943. Corporal R. V. Rucker, Sixth Marines, killed on Okinawa, on May 15, 1944. Lieutenant Parramore Sellers, Filth Air Force, killed between Biak lsland and Morotai, on February 24, 1945. Second Lieutenant Grady Shytles, lr., Tl-450-AAF-BV, killed in an airplane crash at Bakersfield, California, on lanuary 2, 1945. Second Lieutenant Albert L. Spann, lr., Army Air Forces, killed in Northern ltaly, on February 25, 1945. Private First Class Ted W. Srygley, killed in plane crash in the Panamint Mountains overlooking Death Valley, California, on August 1, 1944. Private Billy Virden, 131st Field Artillery, died at Fitzsimmons Hospital, Den- ver, Colorado, on February 21, 1943. Corporal Vernon 1. Voyles, Troop G, 112th Cavalry, killed inland on Arawe, New Britain, on lanuary 4, 1944. Staff-Sergeant lim Bob Wheeler, Troop G, 112th Cavalry, killed at Afua, New Guinea, on August 4, 1944. Flight Officer Charles E. White, Fighter Squadron 59, Fighter Group 33, killed in Burma, on December 31, 1945. Lieutenant Orvil White, 8th Training Squadron, Class 44-B, killed in a plane crash on luly 8, 1944, at Mather Field, California, Lieutenant Charles A. Whittington, Bomb Squadron 758, Bomb Group 459, lost during a flight from Brazil to Africa, on February 8, 1944. Captain Henry P. Widmer, Field Artillery, died of car accident at Coleman, Texas, on August 30, 1944. Second Lieutenant Thomas W. Williams, Squadron 99, Group H, killed in a Flying Fortress collision at Brooksville, Florida, on lanuary 13, 1944. Sergeant W. Preston Williams, Twelfth lnfantry, killed in Germany, on Sep- tember 14, 1944. ' 1 fkkff If al ,f 14' rt 1' 'riff ' 5 L - ' , 7- 'YY 7 gg- , .sb-L 8915!--q. Q x 7' 'li-Xffkt I ' ' 1+ - W ni ,lf