Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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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.

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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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ROBERT JOHN PRIBISH Sergeant U. S. A. A. F. Zl years old Class of 1941 Sergeant Pribish enlisted in the Army on Sep- tember 5, l942. He trained at the Flexible Gun- nery School at Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida. After graduating fromgunnery school, Sergeant Pribish was stationed at Lincoln, Nebraska, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Clovis, New Mexico, before going to the Pacific area in May, l943, as a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber of the 377th Bombardment Squadron of the 307th Bombardment Group. Sergeant Pribish was killed on a mission over Espiritii Santo island of the New Hebrides group on July l3, l9-43, CHARLES PLOG Private First Class U. S. A. 25 years old Class of l938 Private Plog entered the Army in June of I944 and trained at Camp Blanding, Florida. He went overseas in December of 1944 and served with the 4th Armored Division. Private Plog was killed in Germany on March 21, l945. Joi-IN QUINN Sergeant U. S. A. A. F. 20 years old Class of l94l Sergeant Quinn became a member of the Army Air Corps on November 2, l942, and was attached to the Troop Carrier Command, He was killed in a plane crash at Mason City, Iowa, on August 2, l943.