Edgar Vincent Blake. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. 6 June 1919 - 26 June 1944. Entered the Army, 29 June 1942. Trained at Camp Gordon, Fort McClellan, and Fort Dix. Went overseas, January 1944. Died in base hospital in England of wounds received in action in Normandy, D-Day plus five. Bangor High School, 1937. Junior varsity basketball manager. In the automobile service business. Purple Heart. 31100203

George H. Rogers. Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps. 7 February 1926 - 22 June 1944. Recipient of Purple Heart, American Theater Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. Fought at Marshall Islands and at Saipan, Marianas Islands, where he was killed in action. Born in Bangor. Student at St. Mary's School. Participated in many sports and enjoyed work with tools. Enlisted on his birthday, 7 February 1942. 350482

Shelley Doyle Montgomery. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces - 8th Air Force. 26 October 1917 - 20 June 1944. In the Army three years before the war. Then engaged in copper mining. Re-enlisted for action. Trained in part at Dow Field. Tail gunner of a B-24 on many bombardment and bomber combat missions. Killed in action over France. Purple Heart. Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters. 6281320

Arnold R. Kelley. Corporal, U.S. Army Field Artillery. Headquarters Battery, 37th Field Artillery Battalion. 4 January 1922 - 21 June 1944. Beginning December 1942 he served at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, and in Northern Ireland and England, before going to France. Twice wounded in action, he died of wounds in Normandy. Life-long resident of Bangor. Played basketball and football at Bangor High School, where he graduated, 1939. Tree expert. Railroadman. Purple Heart. 31282270

Charles Edward Small. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. 31 December 1921 - 29 May 1944. With the Thunderbird Division he fought in Tunisia, Sicily, through the Apennines, and at Anzio, dying of accident at Nettuno, near Anzio, as the engagement ended. Entered service, February 1943. Trained at Fort McLellan, Alabama. Landed in Africa, 6 June 1943. For three years a student at Bangor High School. 3283822

Rodney J. Gerrish. Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces - 15th Air Force. 13 August 1920 - 23 May 1944. Winner of Air Medal with cluster, Silver Star, Purple Heart. Served with both 8th and 15th Air Forces. Killed in action in Italy. Born in Milo. Lived in Holden and Bangor. Attended Hannibal Hamlin School and Bangor High School. HIs civil occupation was machinist's helper, his recreations hunting and fishing.

James Edward Flood, Jr. Seaman First Class, U.S Navy. U.S.S. Huse, Destroyer Escort 145. 20 November 1924 - 13 May 1944. Exhausting months at sea in American and European waters, where he led a gun crew on anti-submarine and convoy duty, brought on his death ashore. Studied at Cambridge, Massachusetts, High and Latin School and Cambridge Conservatory of Music. Radio singer in Bangor and Boston. Composed songs. Music was his life. 2088781

Richard Brooks Jones. Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 32nd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron. 7 September 1921 - 20 April 1944. Killed in action aboard the transport Paul Hamilton off Algiers. Trained with 480th and 847th School Squadrons and 389th Naval Training Squadron. Purple Heart. Eagle Scout. Amateur photographer. Bangor High School, 1939. Studied; University of Maine, Park's Air School, Curtis Wright Technical Institute. Aircraft inspector. A man of many friends. 13069128

J. Edgar Au Coin. 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 10 March 1914 - 16 April 1944. United States Marine Corps, 1936 - 1940. Royal Canadian Air Force, 1941. Commissioned U.S. Army, 1942. Observer, gunner, bombardier on B-25's. Flew twenty-one combat missions in Italy and sixteen in India. Missing over Imphal, Manipur, India. Born, Bangor. St. John's School. Bangor High School, 1930. Mechanic with Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit. 0562434

Philip James Black. Private, U.S. Army Infantry 504th Parachute Infantry. 30 July 1925 - 19 March 1944. Enlisted, paratroops, August 1942. Trained, Fort Benning, Georgia, and Camp Mackall, North Carolina. Fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Died of wounds received in battle at Carroceto, near Anzio. Educated in Hampden, Bangor and Brewer. His recreations were making model airplanes, swimming and skating. Good Conduct Medal. Purple Heart. 12132051

Horace Nathan Comstock. 2nd Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces. 24 August 1921 - 24 February 1944. Pilot of a fighter plane, he died in combat in the air over Italy. Born in Clarksville, N.H. Graduated from St. Johnsbury Vermont Academy, 1939. Moved to Bangor, 1940. In the feed business in civil life, he enjoyed as recreations swimming, skating and skiing. Entered the service 18 May 1942. 0687418

Nelson Edwards Wilson. Sergeant U.S. Army Air Forces. 29th Troop Carrier Squadron, 313th General Paratroops. 7 December 1922 - 22 February 1944. Served in the Sicilian Campaign. Killed north of Tarifa, Cadiz, Spain, in the accidental crash of the C-47 troop carrier airplane on which, as radio operator, he was flying from Sicily toward England. Born in Millbridge (sic.), Maine. Student at Bangor High School and member of its R.O.T.C. Trapper and outdoorsman. 11045102

W. Stuart Treworgy. Private U.S. Army Infantry. Company F, 3rd Ranger Infantry Battalion. 27 February 1925 - 26 January 1944. Entered the Army from the Maine State Guard. Trained at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. Fought overseas in Africa, Naples, and the Anzio Beachhead where he was fatally wounded. Born at Verona, Maine. Bangor resident from 1931. Studied at Fifth Street Junior High and Bangor High. Enjoyed baseball and softball. Purple Heart. 31318643

Carl Joseph Jansson. Private, U.S. Army - 5th Army. 5 January 1907 - 15 December 1943. Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in combat operations sustained against the enemy for more than three months, until he fell in action near Cassino, Italy. Fought also in Tunisia. Lifelong resident of Bangor. Graduated, Bangor High School, 1925. Engaged in the Food business. Enlisted, 8 February 1943. Purple Heart. 31283825

John Corey Kelley. Lieutenant Commander, U.S.Navy Air Force - U.S.S. Enterprise. 4 March 1916 - 11 November 1943. Graduate, Bar Harbor High School and student, University of Maine, 1933. Graduate U.S. Naval Academy, 1938. Captain Navy soccer team. Served on Memphis, Aaron Ward, Enterprise. Fighter pilot at Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Midway cited, and Southwest Pacific. Killed in action, Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville. Distinguished Flying Cross. Purple Heart. 81238

George Ellis Watson. Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy-U.S.S. Foote, Destroyer 511. 1 September 1920 - 3 November 1943. Studied naval radio. Engaged in the Solomon Islands campaign. Died of wounds received in the torpedoing of his vessel off Bougainville. Native of Bucksport. Graduated St. John's School, Bangor, and University of Wisconsin. Engaged in railroading with the Southern Pacific. Boy Scout leader; athlete; author of many poems. Purple Heart.

Linwood W. Perkins. 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 20 June 1918 - 1 November 1943. While piloting his plane over Port Moresby, New Guinea, he was killed in action. A graduate of Bangor High School in 1936, he was in civil life, a bookkeeper. He enlisted in January 1941, at first becoming a radio operator, later transferring to the Air Forces where he was a pilot.

Harry V. Daggett, Jr. Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces 873rd Battalion Airborne Engineers. 11 February 1922 - 31 October 1943. Just one year after enlisting he died through accident during the heavy fighting at Guadalcanal. Trained at Miami Beach, Louisiana State University, Westover Field, and Fort Bragg. Born in Pensacola, Florida. Graduated, Stephens High, Rumford, Maine, 1939. In the retail shoe business in Bangor. His sports were golf and hunting. 11118430

Leonard Victor Ashworth, Jr. Aviation Radioman Third Class, U.S. Navy. Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. 28 August 1923 - 30 October 1943. Until the war a life-long resident of Bangor. HIs boyhood interest in airplanes took him into Naval aviation soon after graduation, as a commercial student, from John Bapst High School, June 1941. He died in the accidental crash of his plane while on Naval air patrol off the California coast. 2086782

John Francis Curran. Storekeeper Third Class, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. Chevalier. 25 December 1923 - 6 October 1943. Left John Bapst High School in his junior year to enlist, July 1942. Trained at Newport, Rhode Island. Served in the Pacific. Killed in action when his destroyer was torpedoed off Vella Lavella Island, Solomon Islands. Life-long resident of Bangor. St. Mary's School. A lover of all sports. Purple Heart. 2086509

Benjamin Howe, Jr. 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces - 8th Air Force. 20 October 1919 - 19 August 1943. Expert swimmer and tennis player. Reading, Massachusetts, High School, 1937. Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut, 1939. Entered Columbia University and enlisted, 1939. Advanced air training, Dow Field, Bangor, 1941 - 1942. Killed in action piloting his B-17 Flying Fortress over Hamburg, Germany. His son, Peter Anthony, is a native of Bangor. Purple Heart. 0796391

Lloyd Kenneth Robinson. Junior Assistant Purser, Merchant Marine. 30 December 1923 - 18 August 1943. Began Merchant Marine service October 1942. Attained rating of Junior assistant purser 9 July 1943. Died of illness at Marine Hospital, Brighton, Massachusetts. Studied at St. Mary's School and John Bapst High School. In civil life a clerk in the paper industry in Louisiana. Fond of hunting, fishing, and baseball.

Harold Arthur Slager. Captain, U.S. Army Field Artillery. A Battery, 152nd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Division. 30 April 1914 - 25 July 1943. Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism, resulting in his death by enemy machine gunfire, in supervising the tank and infantry attack at Munda, New Georgia. Athlete, outdoorsman, Scout. Graduated, John Bapst High School, 1934. Assistant manager Park Theatre. National Guard member, 1934 until induction of unit, 1941. Purple Heart. 0360364

Joseph R. Sarnoski. Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 31 January 1915 - 16 June 1943. Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously, for his indomitable defense of his Flying Fortress against twenty enemy fighters at the price of his life, over Buka, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Musician. Aviation enthusiast. Native of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Trained: Denver, Colorado and Langley Field, Virginia. Bangor resident, six months, while at Dow Field. 6884159