Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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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.

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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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1 l FLOYD RELYEA Technical Sergeant U. S. A. A. F. 21 years old Class of 1940 Sergeant Relyea entered the armed services on November 16, 1942. He received his training at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, He was a radio gunner with the 703rd Bombardment Squadron of the 445th Bombardment Group. Sergeant Relyea was killed in an airplane crash at Birkenhead, England, on October 18, 1944. ln this same accident Lieu- tenant Roland Mosher lost his lite. JOHN RITZ Private U. S. A. 33 years old Class of 1938 Private Ritz entered the United States Army on February 10, 1942. Private Ritz was with the -45th Division of the Infantry. I-le was wounded at Sa- lerno and died when his hospital ship was sunk in a the Bay of Salerno on September 13, 1943. 1 ANTHONY RINALDI Staff Sergeant U. S. A. A. F. 20 years old Class of 1943 Sergeant Rinaldi entered the service on March 23, 1943. He trained at Scott Field, Illinois, Kes- sler Field, Mississippi, and Columbia Army Air Base, Columbia, South Carolina. Sergeant Rinaldi was killed in a collision of two planes on August 1, 1944, over New Guinea.