Edwin D Rattray. Major U.S. Army Field Artillery. 8 December 1893 - 15 September 1945. Field Artillery officer, 1918-1919. Graduate of Yale, 1919. Between wars an oil operator in the Southwest, he continued in the Officers' Reserve Corps. Recalled to active service, 1942. Saw duty at Fort Knox and Camps Breckinridge and Atterbury. Died in the service of illness. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 0141484

Paul H. Eames, Jr. Ensign, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. Indianapolis. 30 September 1924 - 30 July 1945. Killed in action in the Philippine Sea when his ship was torpedoed after delivering the irresistible instrument of immediate victory. Seaman First Class, 1942-1944. Midshipman, 1944-1945. Ensign, 1945. A.B. (cum laude) Brown University, 1945, and Bowdoin College, 1945. Brown University Swimming Team letterman. Editor "Bowdoin Orient". Purple Heart. 442206

Gerald Constantine Ryder. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. Company C, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. 3 December 1924 - 14 June 1945. Participating with the "Fighting Third" in eight major battles, French Morocco, Casablanca, Tunisia, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France, and the capture of Nuremberg, he died in an accident in Austria. Student at St. John's School and John Bapst High. A lover of all sports. Presidential Citation. Croix de Guerre Fourragere. 31318669

Donald Aldrich McKinnon. Ensign, Navy Air corps, U.S. Navy. Squadron 3, Flight X, Naval Air Station, Whiting Field, Milton, Florida. 18 December 1920 - 27 May 1945. Sworn in, October 1942. Received Navy wings of gold at Pensacola, August 1944. Instructor at DeLand, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; and Whiting Field. While teaching dive bombing died in training-plane accident, Brewton, Alabama. In civil life a carpenter. Played football for Bangor High School in his senior year. Graduated 1939. 396061

Frederic Coleman Murphy. Captain, U.S. Army. Headquarters Allied Control Commission, Allied Military Govt. 26 January 1907 - 6 May 1945. Died of accident on duty at Milan, Italy. St. John's School, Bangor. St. Mary's College, Van Buren, 1924. University of Maine, B.A. 1928, M.A. 1936. Phi Beta Kappa. Harvard, M.A. 1937. Teacher at Berlin, New Hampshire. Economic analyst, U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D.C. Musician. Ski enthusiast. 0521416

William G. Burgess, Jr. Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps - 1st Marine Division.19 June 1924 - 14 May 1945. After fighting in the difficult campaigns at Cape Gloucester, New Britain; the Russell Islands, near Guadalcanal; and Bloody Nose Ridge, Peleliu Island; he fell in action at Okinawa. A native of Bangor and student at St. Mary's School, he lived also in Glenburn and Hermon. HIs principal interest was mechanics. 350545

George T. Richards. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. Company E, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division. 3 December 1925 - 2 April 1945. The youngest of three brothers in the service. Enlisted 28 February 1944. Trained with 273rd Infantry, 69th Division. Sailed overseas November 1944. Entered the fighting January 1945. Killed in action at Nepthen, Germany. Graduated Garland Street Junior High, 1942. Entered Bangor High. Member of Pleiades Grange of Glenburn. Purple Heart. 31452083

Carl F. Peterson, Jr. Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps. 22nd Battalion, 6th Marine Division.23 February 1926 - 10 May 1945. Studied one year at Bangor High School. Enlisted June 1943. Killed in action at Okinawa. A lover of the out-of-doors, who even at Okinawa always lifted up his eyes to the hills, he found more happiness in his nineteen years than do most men in thrice as many. Purple Heart. 527730

Ferd Charles Flagg. Private First Class, U.S. Army. 29 June 1919 - 21 April 1945. One of four brothers who served. Fatally wounded in action, Leipzig, Germany, 18 April 1945. Bangor High School student; in the refrigeration business; shipbuilder. Member of Maine State Guard. He loved the out-of-doors and he loved people. His daughter, Pollyanne, and his son, Douglas, inherit his happy disposition. Purple Heart. 31401469

Carl S. Spragg. First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces. Headquarters Company, Combat Command A, 4th Armored Division. 17 July 1922 - 16 April 1945. At the cost of his own life by sniper's bullets he saved his comrades trapped in a disabled tank at Renez, Germany. Enlisted 1939. Commissioned 1942. Basketball manager, Bangor High School, where he graduated, 1938. Rancher in Wyoming. Purple Heart with three clusters. Bronze Star with two clusters. Silver Star. 01011041

Ernest A. Burke. Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 100th Troop Carrier Squadron, 441st Troop Carrier Group. 4 September 1924 - 13 April 1945. As aerial gunner and crew chief of a C-47, served in campaigns of Rome-Arno, Southern France, Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe, to fall in action at Nieheim, Westphalia, Germany. He lies at Margraten, Holland. Bangor High, 1942. Student at University of Maine. Air Medal with three clusters. Purple Heart. 31317911

John A. Willette. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. 16th Armored Infantry, 45th Division. 28 May 1918 - 4 April 1945. Fighting with the Thunderbird Division he earned four battle stars; in Italy, Southern France, and the Rhineland. Wounded, November 1944. Later returned to combat. Killed in action in the Harz Mountains, Germany. Student at John Bapst High School. Engaged in aircraft construction. Hunter and fisherman. Purple Heart with oak-leaf cluster. 31352091

Frederick Paul Keezer. Private First Class, U.S. Army Engineer Corps. 658th Engineer Light Equipment Company. 6 July 1917 - 1 April 1945. Following service in Maine State Guard Reserve, entered Army, March 1944. Trained, Camp Selby, Mississippi. Overseas, December 1944. Killed in action, Pirmasens, Bavaria, Germany. Buried, St. Arnold Cemetery, France. Native of Hudson. Electrician, employed in footwear manufacturing and in shipbuilding. Hunter. Photographer. Father of a daughter, Margaret Lucy. Purple Heart. 31457425

John N Budway. Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, 5th Marine Division. 29 July 1923 - 6 March 1945. Wounds received at Iwo Jima caused his death. Fought, previously, at Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Enlisted 1942. Trained, Parris Island. Sailed overseas, 1944. Participated in football, basketball, and boxing at John Bapst High School where he graduated, 1941. Engaged one year in assembling Pratt and Whitney airplane motors. Purple Heart. 484003

Donald Holman Ayer. Lieutenant, 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars of Montreal. 22 April 1912 - 4 March 1945. For distinguished services before the enemy awarded the Military Cross, 1944. Graduated, Choate School, 1930; United States Naval Academy, 1934; graduate student, Harvard University, 1937. Estate and industrial administrator. Joined the Canadian Army 4 July 1940. Fought in Normandy, Holland, and Germany. Twice wounded. Killed in action near Cleve, Prussia.

Austin Rodney Keith. 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces. Aircraft Commander (1st Pilot) B-29 Superfortress, 21st Bomber Command, 20th Air Force. 13 April 1919 - 25 February 1945. A good fighter, graduate of Luke Field, he bombed Truk, Hamamatsu, and Tokyo. From Tokyo he has not returned. Bangor High School, 1937. Captain Company A. University of Maine, class of 1942. Finished Soldier, accomplished actor, and prize-winning dramatist. His war play, "Prelude to Courage", was widely performed. Purple Heart. 0733909

James Stewart MacKaye. Corporal, U.S. Army Infantry. Antitank Company 423rd Infantry Regiment. 23 October 1918 - 11 February 1945. Combat Infantryman, fighting in the outnumbered Golden Lion Division at St.Vith he was captured, dying later in enemy prison, Stargard, Germany. Previously with Antiaircraft Artillery and Air Corps. Studied at Cornell and Columbia Little Theatre enthusiast In the lumbering tool and electrical equipment industries. His son bears his name. 32970498

Ralph Linley Cunningham, Jr. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Field Artillery. 89th Field Artillery Battalion. 5 November 1919 - 11 February 1945. From work in the newspaper business in Bangor he enlisted 9 December 1940. Assigned to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Fought in the Hawaiian defense of 7 December 1941 and in the Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Luzon campaigns. His daughter, Kay Dianne he never saw. Good Conduct Medal. Presidential Citation. Purple Heart. 11014362

Bernard Joseph Bertels, Jr. Captain, U.S. Army Infantry 43rd Division. 1 August 1916 - 22 January 1945. After fighting at Guadalcanal the Northern Solomons, and New Guinea he was killed on Luzon while commanding his infantry company in action. Graduated, Bangor High School, 1934; Hebron Academy, 1935. State of Maine Scholarship, Bowdoin College, 1935. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin, 1939. In civil life an insurance investigator. Purple Heart. 01292643

Eugene John Ranks. Seaman Second Class, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. Hancock. 7 June 1927 - 21 January 1945. Enlisted, October 1943. Trained, Newport, Rhode Island, and Norfolk, Virginia. Voyaged to Brazil, 1944, before assignment to Aircraft Carrier Hancock in the Pacific. Killed in action. Buried at sea. Graduated, St Mary's School, Bangor. Employed in the newspaper business while studying one year at John Bapst High School. Baseball enthusiast. 2091680

Thomas R. Graffam. Flight Officer, U.S. Army Air Forces. 1st Group, 94th Fighter Squadron, 15th Air Force. 20 March 1925 - 21 January 1945. While stationed in Italy, as the pilot of a Lightning Fighter with the oldest P-38 group in the Air Forces, he was shot down over the North Adriatic Sea. Graduated, Bangor High School, 1942. Eagle Scout. In business briefly. Trained at three fields in California and at Williams Field, Arizona. 3138379

Arthur F. Stimpson. Private, U.S. Army Infantry - 3rd Army. 8 December 1912 - 18 January 1945. Sharpshooter and Combat Infantryman. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was killed in action at Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Native of Hampden. Resident of Bangor. Engaged in the oil business. His recreations were hunting and fishing. Father of two children: Nancy Ann Stimpson and Arthur Francis Stimpson. Purple Heart. 31461842

Gerald Decker Strout. Pharmacist's Mate Third Class, U.S. Navy. U.S. Naval Hospital, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. 26 January 1917 - 15 January 1945. From his hospital station he went out on the minelayer Ozark for the invasion of Luzon and was killed in an accidental collision of airplanes while returning, presumably with wounded. "Skip's" favorite sport was basketball. Graduated, Bangor High School, 1936. Was with a real estate firm at his enlistment. 8233002

Bernard J. Cyr. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. 30th Infantry Division 9th Army. 5 September 1925 - 14 January 1945. He fought in the Old Hickory Division through France, Belgium, and Holland, dying in action in Germany in the Battle of the Bulge. Trained, Fort McLellan, Alabama, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Boy Scout. Class of 1944, Bangor High School. Maine State Guard. Purple Heart. Presidential Citation. Combat Infantry-man. 31352504