Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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ROLAND F. MOSHER Second Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. ' 21 years old Class of 1941 Lieutenant Mosher was a pilot of a B-Z4 Lib- erator bomber and engaged in terrying planes from the United States to England, He was killed on October l8, l944, when the plane returning him and other terry pilots crashed on a tlight between lreland and the United States. EDWARD MILLER Private First Class U. S. A. 26 years old Class of 1936 Private Miller entered the Army on March l3, I944, and trained at Camp Croft, Virginia. He served with the 80th Infantry Division and was killed in France on November 9, I944. ALEXANDER MOZDZIERZ Corporal U. S. A. A. F. 23 years old Class of 1940 Corporal Mozdzierz served with the Army Air Forces as a tail gunner. While returning from a combat flight, he was killed in a plane crash at Saipan on May 5, l945.

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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.

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JAMES MURPHY Private First Class U. S. A. A. F. 26 years old Class of 1938 Private Murphy entered the service on January 8, l942, and trained with the Air Corps He was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii, for a year and then to England. Private Mirphy was drowned during a blackout at Camborne, England, on November l9, 1944. CHESTER D. PERKINS Second Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. 20 years old Cl::s of l94l A Lieutenant Perkins eitered the Army in March, l9-13, and received his training at San Antonio, Harlingen, Eliington Field, and Delhart, Texas, and at Little Rock, Arkansas. ln March, l944, he was commissioned as a navigator on a B-I7 Flying Fortress. Lieutenant Perkins was sent to England in May, I944, and was killed on a raid over Berlin on June 2l, l944. f RICHARD NICKERSON Second Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. 24 years old Class of l937 Lieutenant Nickerson was a pilot ot the 488th Fighter Squadron, 59th Fighter Bomber Group. He was killed in a crash near Thomasville, Georgia, on December IS, l943.