Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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F. HOWARD KLOEPFER Second Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. Z1 years old Class of 1941 Lieutenant Kloepfer entered the Air Forces on March 27, 1943. He was stationed with the 9th Combat Cargo Squadron in Burma, and was killed there on May 19, 1945. WILLIAM LAWRENCE Private U. 5. A. 18 years old Class of 1945 Private Lawrence entered the service on March 13, 1944, and served in the 87th infantry Division, He was killed in action in the Battle of the Bulge on December 17, 1944. FRANCIS KUKLINSKI Private U. S. A. 24 years old Class of 1940 Private Kuklinski began his service with the United States Army in June, 1944. Receiving his training at Camp Blending, Private Kuklinski be- came a member of the 3rd Armored Group in Be!- gium. On January 7, 1945, he lost his life in the Battle of the Bulge.

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ARTHUR HADSELL Colonel U. S. A. 40 years old Class of l9Z0 Colonel Hadsell was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in l924. After his graduation from West Point, he was sent to Honolulu and then to the Sorbonne University at Paris, France, to study French in order that he might teach that subject at West Point. He re- turned to West Point and was there for three years as a French instructor. At his request, he was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, for training in mechan- ized warfare, and from there he went overseas via Pine Camp at Watertown, New York. Colonel Hadsell was sent to New Caledonia and then to Bougainville, He was severely wounded at Bou- gainville and returned to a hospital in New Cale- donia where he died on February 7, l944. MARTIN GREENBERG Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. I9 years old Class of 1942 I X Lieutenant Greenberg enlisted in the service as an aviation cadet on June l, I943. ln i944 he was awarded his wings as a navigator on a B-24, Lieutenant 'Greenberg was killed in action over Italy on February l7, 1945. JAMES B. JOHNSON Private First Class U. S. M. C. I9 years old Class of 1945 Private Johnson enlisted in the armed forces on November 5, l942. He was in the 2nd Marine Di- vision of the Marine Corps. Private Johnson was killed in the Battle of Tarawa on November 20, l943. . l

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JOHN LEONE Corporal U. S. A. 21 years old Class of 1941 Corporal Leone served with the Operational Group of the Office of Strategic Services, Co. H, 267lst Special Reconnaissance Battalion which went overseas in August, 1943. After his capture in Italy he was killed by order of a German officer on March 26, 1944. This officer, General Anton Dostler, was later executed by an American firing squad l l l CLIFFORD LEMEROND Private First Class U. S. A. 20 years old Class of 1944 Private Lemerond entered the Army on June l6, 1942, and trained at Fort George Meade, Mary- land. He served with the lnfantry in ltaly and was killed in action there on October 13, 1943, J. ARTHUR MCCOY Private U. S. A. 22 years old ' Class of 1943 Private McCoy entered the Army on June 30, 1943, and received his training at Camp Stewart, Georgia, and Camp Pickett, Virginia, Private McCoy served with the llth Infantry of the Sth Division in France and was killed in action in the Battle of the Bulge on December 7, l944,