Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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S 1 . f . f . Q Q-I R t' ff Maior Gerald Henry Hoffman. B. S., '3O. Henry Duane McCallum. B. S., '40, Naval Assigned to the staff of the Corps ol Engineers on Bataan for important road construction upon commendation by General MacArthur. Missinq with fall of Bataang now believed a prisoner of the lapanese. Beta Theta Pi. lf 65 Casino A. Catanzaro, Ex., '42. U. S. Army. Killed in action with M:1cAr- thur's forces in the Philippines. Aviation Cadet. Killed in Iune, 1942, when his training plane crashed in a swamp near Opa Locka, Fla. Theta Xi it .A - ix.-Q, Sql. Don C. McCord. Ir.. Ex., '35. Army Air Corps, radio operator. Chased into Pearl Harbor by lap invaders. Drifted four days and five nights on the Pacific. Wounded in the Battle at Midway. Now reported missing in Far East. Phi Delta Theta. 1 Aw. NX .Q1 -du Edwin Kalbfleisch, Ir.. A. B., '4O. Lt., U. S. Army. Believed to have been taken prisoner by the Japanese when the American forces surrendered on Bataan. Oliver Mutrux, Ex., '43. Civilian flight instructor at the Army Air Corps pri- mary training base at Sikeston, Mo. Killed in plane crash at Sikeston, Oct. 1942. ,gp .1 , . Capt. M. H. Kornblum, D. D. S., '33. Stationed at Corregidor. Missing since the fall of the Philippines, May, 1942. v 1 4 bl :Qi I-HX 'Ti' 'Q Lt. Iames Herschel Payne, Ex., '40. Army Air Corps. Killed when his bomber crashed near Wendover, Utah, in May 1942. Formerly stationed near Seattle, Wash., in the Ferry Command. . x ,x '- , ft,-- X. ji KE ' L .yr , Lt. Richard L. Root. Ex., '4l. Army Air Corps. Killed in action in the Philip- pines Dec. 10, 1942. Phi Delta Theta. ll

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Lt. Gerald R, Platt. B. S. P. A., '4l. Commissioned in Coast Artillery after R. O. T. C. training, sent to Nichols Field, Manila. Reported a Iapanese prisoner in Ianuary 1942 after he had been listed as missing in action on Batacm Peninsula. Pvt. Robert Morrison Davis. L. L. B., '39. One of the first graduates of Wash- ington and first lawyers of Missouri to lose his lite in World War Il. Flying Cadet, Army Air Corps. Drowned during training period near Ft. Worth, Texas, in Iune 1941. Beta Theta Pi. -'5 Ensign Allan B. Lullman, B. S. B. A., '35. Lt. Donald U. Urquhart. A. B., '42, Army Naval Reserve. Killed when the dive bomber he was ferrying to Canada crashed near Marion, N. Y. Formerly a pilot for Transcontinental and West- ern, he had volunteered for the flight to Canada. we rice Air Corps. Killed when bomber crashed at Columbia, S. C., Sept. 1942. a? Nothing has brought the realization of war to the campus more vividly than the stories which reach us of Washington graduates who have met an unfortunate fate in military service to their country in the present Crisis. Some have paid the i it supreme sacrifice: some have fallen into the hands of the enemy: some according to latest information available are missing in action. These pages are reverently devoted to these men. All no doubt are not represented Whose performance should have gained them a place of recognition here. Our tribute is limited by the difficulties of complete research, and the problems of contacting the families of alumni. The HATCHET tenders a sincere apology for any such unintentional omissions. 10 it I i il Ensign Philip Michael Ioyce. Ex., '42. Killed when destroyer Peary was sunk in battle in South Pacific, Dec. 1941. Secretary of the Navy Knox has asked his mother to christen the destroyer U. S. S. Ioyce in his honor. Kappa Alpha. 2nd Lt. Russell Lee Callison. B. S. E. E., '40, Army Air Corps. killed in plane crash in Australia. TFV4' l Lt. Howard David Cory. B. S. B. A., '4l. Army Air Corps. Killed when his plane crashed in a take-off at Lam- bert Field, Mo., in Dec. 1941. Phi Delta Theta.

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Lt. Iames W. Stevenson. B. S. B. A., '33. While attached to the St. Louis Ordnance Division at Iefferson Barracks, Steven- son contracted pneumonia in the line of duty, and died December 12, 1942. ,- , . . Cadet Iohn W. Murrell, ex-'42. Naval Aviation. Killed in Iune, 1942, when his training plane cracked up near Pensa- cola, Fla. Vtfhile still at Washington U. in the fall of 1941, Murrell was an active member of Quad Club and Thyr- sus. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Lt. fi. g.l Christopher Columbus Free- man. ex-'4Z. Naval Aviation. Killed in lanuary, 1943, when his plane crashed during a take-off from an island in the Solomons group Where he was based for air scouting duty. 'N 'u Capt. Elmer C. Wirtz. B. S., '37. Field Artillery. Reported missing in action on Bataan. He was stationed in the Philippines eight months before Pearl Harbor. Sigma Chi. Lt. ti. g.l George T. Cherikos. D. D. S., '4U. Killed when the bomber he was on crashed near Kodiak, Alaska, in Feb- ruary, 1942. Cherikos had been an instructor of dental surgery here at Washington. ,gb Lt. Robert Lisle Obourn, A. B., '41, First listed as missing in action on Corregi- dor, Obourn is now reported as a Iapanese prisoner of war, Phi Delta Theta. Pvt. Cornelius Schnecko. L. L. B., '25. Died in line oi duty at Fort Leonard Vtfood, Mo., of a sunstroke While his unit was on tactical exercises. - . 14 M . I it ii ' sa Ag, 7 . it - . i. 4 I I . '3 J A . ' I 1. , l Q tu l I Q gr.. . . 1 ' -In Y, . . f- X .. K ,,-,,- Lt. George W. Pearcy. B. S. B. A., '37. Army Air Corps. Captured by the Japa- nese aiter the fall of Corregidor. Cont'd on page I6