Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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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

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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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FRANKLIN SWENSON Lieutenant li.g.l U. S. N. 29 years old Class of 1937 Lieutenant Swenson piloted a TBF Avenger tor- pedo plane of the famous Torpedo Squadron 8 which was annihilated, with the exception of one man, in the Battle of Midway, and received the Presidential Unit Citation. He entered the Naval Air Service on June 16, 1942, earning his pilot's wings at Corpus Christi, Texas, on February 12, 1943. Lieutenant Swenson was stationed at many bases in the United States, Squantum, Massachu- setts, Miami, Florida, Quonset Point, Massachu- setts, and left for the Pacific from Norfolk, Vir- ginia, in December, 1943, aboard the newly com- missioned aircraft carrier lntrepid. When.the ln- trepid was hit by the Japanese, Lieutenant Swen- son was transferred to the carrier Bunker Hill. He was shot down once over New Hollandia and was picked up later by Navy Patrol Craft. Lieutenant Swenson was killed in action over Truk on June 12, 1944. CHARLES W. STACEY Radio Operator, U. S. Merchant Marine 20 years old Class of 1941 After being unsuccessful in his attempts to en- list in the United States Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, and in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Charles Stacey enlisted in the Merchant Marine in 1942. He trained as a radio operator at New York City and sailed from Philadelphia as Chief Radio Operator on a Liberty ship carrying ammunition. He was killed at his radio while sending out SOS signals after his ship had been torpedoed by two Japanese submarines in the lndian Ocean on June 19, 1943. VINCENT TAFFE First Lieutenant U. S. A. A. F. 26 years old Class of 1936 Lieutenant Taffe entered the armed forces in 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a bombardier in the Army Air Forces. He was killed in the South Pacific area on March 20, 1944.