Loyola Academy - Yearbook (Wilmette, IL)

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if fi 3' if '00iS. li. Nn.hm' .4 1 in 1935 ie'-.rt In-4 osx- will as wow Jaw' QI. will v ARTHUR C. SMITH Coast Guard Auxiliary Age 30 Died in Chicago, Illinois, May 12, 1943 Graduated from the Academy in 1929 P- K 2nd LT. CHARLES C. SWEENEY U.S. Army Air Corps Age 21 Killed in a plane crash in Panama, April 21, 1945, while searching for another pilot who was missing Graduated from the Academy in 1940 I P., SGT. WILLIAM J. SPELLMAN, U.S. Army Age 20 Killed in action at Rittershoffen, France, January 14, 1945, while fighting with the 14th Armored Division Graduated from the Academy in 1942 Received the Purple'Heart Seaman DANIEL J MURPHY Age 21 Lost on the submarine Corvlna January 1944 and presumed dead Attended the Academy 1936 1938 SGT. WILLIAM P. THOMAS U.S. Army Air Corps Age 22 Killed in an accident at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, January 1, 1946 Attended the Academy 2 years Page 13 i

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l , F .... ,. - 1 3 AfC W. EDWARD O'DAY 1 U.S. Army Air Corps ly Age 20 Killed in a plane crash in Alabama, February 26, 1944 T Graduated from the Academy in 1941 l ,l 'l 1 r : i . i . . Sf1C DONALD E. SEBASTIAN, U.S.N.R. Q Age 22 Killed in action in Lingayen Gulf, January 7, 1945 Attended the Academy 2 years 1 Page 12 l P.F.C. JOHN J. PURDY Age 19 Killed in action in France, November 29, 1944 Graduated from the Academy in Awarded tlze Bronze Star 1943 1st LT. BARTHOLOMEW O'TOOLE, JR. U.S. Army Age 27 Killed in action at Hannacourt, France, November 10, 1944 Graduated from the Academy in 1935 Received the Purple Heart Awarded the Bronze Star ENS. THOMAS F. SHAY, U.S.N.R. Age 23 Killed at Corpus Christi, Texas, October 12, 1944, in a mid-air collision Graduated from the Academy in 1937

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P.F.C. VINTON F. THOMPSON, JR., U.S. Army Killed in action at La Haye-du-Puits, France, GILBERT C. SMITH, U.S. Army.Paratroops Age 21 Killed in action in Africa Attended the Academy two years Age 20 July 31, 1944 Graduated from the Academy in 1942 Pfc. WILLIAM C. HESSLAU Received the Purple Heart Age 22 AWU ded Presidentivl Unlf 5701100 Killed in action on Guadalcanal, January 7, 1943 Attended the Academy, 1935-1937 Received the Purple Heart P.O. FRANK A. McNALLY Age 25 Lost on the submarine Scorpion, March ,1944, Sf1C RICHARD M. WALDRON, JR., U.S.N.R. Age 22 Killed in action in the Java Sea, De- cember 15, 1945, when the U.S.S. Pecos was sunk by Japanese bombers Graduated from the Academy in 1937 t 1 I I a l i . l 2 1 Y and presumed dead. Attended the Academy, 1934-1937 Received a submarine Group Citation I LT. RUPERT J. WEBER, U.S.N.R. Age 26 Killed in action over Formosa, October 12, 1944, Corp. EDWARD P. WHALEN, A.A.C. when the Scout Bomber he was flying was hil A99 19 by anti-aircraft fire Reported missing and presumed dead after Grqduqfed from the Academy in 1937 a B-29 raid over Tokyo, May 26, 1945 Received fhe pu,-ple Hear' Graduated from the ACC'demY in 1944 Awarded the Air Medal and Citation for Received the Purple Heart ' ' Page 14 Meritorious Duty