Ponca City High School - Cat Tale Yearbook (Ponca City, OK)

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is P' Pvt. Ernest E. Corey, 1940 Army Air Corps, July 24, 1940 Presumed dead-May 8, 1944- Philippine Islands Purple Heart, Presidential Citation Caxswain Philip E. Cox, 1940 Navy, January 28, 1942 Killed in action-October 9, 1943 U.S.S, Buck, Tyrrhenian Sea Purple Heart Pfc. Howard P. DeBoard, 1941 Infantry, November 17, 1942 Wounded and died from results of wounds, December 24, 1944-Lux- embourg Purple Heart ,I , ,fl Pfc. Kenneth G. Erwin, 1940 Coast Artillery, January 31, 1941 Served at Corregidor Died in prison camp-July 1, 1943 4Philippine lslands Cadet J. Lee Forney, 1941 West Point First Classman Army Air Corps, April 15, 1942 Plane crash-August 19, 1944 -Ramsey, New Jersey Charles L. Foster, S2fc, 1943 Navy, February 21, 1944 Died and buried at sea near Ad- miralty Islands-July 25, 1944 Q-.. X .isis Ol' ,.,p ,Q -. 1 A Pfc. Melvin M. Beard, 1942' lnfantry, 1943 Killed in actionvJuly ll, 1944 -Saipan Purple Heart Sfsgt. Rufus H. Biby, 1939 Army Air Corps, August 10, 1940 Killed in action-November 19, 1944-Germany Purple Heart, Citation of Honor from Gen, H. H. Arnold, Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation Tlsgt. Robert D. Biby, 1935 Army Engineers, May 26, 1942 Killed in accident-January 6, 1945-Burma, India Plc. Basil C. Dunn, Jr., 1942 Infantry, March 31, 1943 Died February 4, 1945, from re- sults of wounds received in action Purple Heart Sgt. Frank L. Dunn, 1942 Army, March 2, 1943 European Theater-England, Gere many, France Killed in action-March 7, 1945 -France Combat lnfantryman's Badge Purple Heart Lieut. Edward K. Dwyer, 1937 Army Air Force, January 26, 1942 Killed in accident--April 9, 1943 -Stuttgart, Arkansas K Second Lieut. Joseph N. Gillert, Jr., 1941 Army Air Corps, February, 1943 Killed in accident-July 5, 1944, Strother Field, Winfield, Kansas First Lieut. George R. Godschalk, Jr., 1935 Air Corps, September, 1942 Killed in accident, August 16, 1944, over North Sea Air Medal-Oak Leaf Cluster Pfc. Lawson Goodner, 1940 lnfantry, March, 1943 Killed in action-October 8, 1944 -Germany Purple Heart