Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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JOHN W. SHEA Corporal U. S. A. A. F. 22 years old Class of 1939 Corporal Shea entered the armed services on March 8, 1943. He received his basic training at Miami Beach, Florida, and from there was sent to Pawling, New York, for training in cryptography. ln June, 1943, Corporal Shea went overseas and served with the lndia-China Wing of the United States Air Transport Command, He was killed in action at Ledo, in Assam Province, India, on Sep- tember 14, 1943. FRAZER SHAW First Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F.: Flight Lieutenant R. C. A. F. 26 years old Class of 1938 Lieutenant Shaw entered the Royal Canadian Air Force in March, 1941, and served overseas as a Flight Lieutenant. He was transferred to the Army Air Forces in October, 1944, as a First Lieu- tenant. Lieutenant Shaw was killed on July 20, 1945. HERMAN SIEGEL Private U. S. A. 19 years old Class of 1943 t Private Siegel entered the Army on August 7, 1943, and trained at Fort Riley, Kansas, with the lst Cavalry Regiment. He was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, on .lanuary 23, 1944, and left from there for North Africa. Private Siegel served with the 14lst Armed Signal Company at Anzio beachhead in ltaly and was killed there on May 18, 1944.

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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.

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AUGUSTUS J. SIKO Second Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. 21 years old Class of 1940 Lieutenant Siko entered the Air Force on No- vember ZO, 1942, and trained at Selrnan Field, Louisiana. He was commissioned as a navigator on a bomber after completion of his training Lieu- tenant Siko was killed in a crash at Blythe, Cali- fornia, on October 14, I9-43. CARL SPRENGER Corporal U. S. A. A. F. 19 years old Class of 1943 Corporal Sprenger entered the Army in April of 1943. During the course of his training, he was at Greensboro, North Carolina, Tyndall Field, Florida, Drew Field, Florida, and Mitchell Field, New York. He left for overseas from Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, in the early part of February, 1945. Cor- poral Sprenger was a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was killed when his plane crashed be- tween lceland and Wales on February 7, 1945. BELA SIKO Private First Class U. S. A. 29 years old Class of 1936 Private Siko entered the Army on January 28, 1941, and trained at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Private Siko served with Company L, 106th ln- fantry, 27th Division, and was killed on Okinawa on April 18, 1945. l i