Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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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,

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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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CHARLES MCGILL Sergeant U. S, A. A. F. 40 years old Class of 1925 Sergeant McGill entered the Army on Septem- ber 3, 1942. l-le trained at Miami, Florida, and Eglin Airfield, Florida, He was sent to North Africa and was killed when the ship which was carrying him to China was sunk by German planes in the Mediterranean Sea on November 27, l943. WALTER MANSOLILLO First Lieutenant U. S. A. 27 years old Class of l935 Lieutenant Mansolillo entered the Army in l94ll and received his training in Alabama, He served in the Pacific area for nine months and then was returned to the United States to attend Officers' Candidate School in l942. After graduating from OCS, he was for a while Commanding Officer of the 26th Battalion stationed at Fort McClelland, Alabama. ln January of 1943, he attended the Adjutant General's School at Washington, D. C., for a course in military censorship before being sent overseas. Lieutenant Mansolillo was killed in Germany on December 23, l943. ALEXANDER F. MALISZEWSKI Seaman 'lf'C U. S. N. 19 years old Class of i945 Seaman Maliszewski entered the armed service in March, l9fl2. He was a member of the Navy gun crew on the tanker S. S. Esso Williamsburg which was lost in the Atlantic area on September 23, l944.