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Frye, Harrison William
No full textHarrison William Frye. Private, U.S. Army.
8 July 1924 - 14 October 1944.
Born in Eastport Happy Frye attended grammar school in Bangor. Entered service 11 January 1942. Fought in North Africa and Italy with 34th and 85th Infantry divisions. Killed in action in Italy. A lover of the out-of-doors, of baseball and of things mechanical. A soldier with many friends. Purple Heart.
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Dyer, Alonzo
No full textAlonzo Dyer. Private First Class, U.S. Army Armored Force. 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division.
13 July 1922 - 8 September 1944.
Enlisted, Cavalry, February 1942. Trained in the Southwest. Transferred to Armored Infantry, becoming tank radioman. Landed, Normandy, August 10. Fought through Reims, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun, to Metz where he died of wounds received September 7. Educated at Freedom. Resident of Bangor while engaged in bottling business. Native of Thorndike. Purple Heart.
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Cunningham, Jr., Ralph Linley
No full textRalph 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.
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Ryder, Gerald Constantine
No full textGerald 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\u27s School and John Bapst High. A lover of all sports. Presidential Citation. Croix de Guerre Fourragere.
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Eaton, Harold G.
No full textHarold G. Eaton. Captain, Merchant Marine(Naval Reserve), Commanding S.S. Raphael Semmes. 15 April 1884 - 28 June 1942
He went down with his ship, torpedoed at 20 30\u27 N-60 30\u27 W, while returning from delivering munitions to Russia. At sea from the age of sixteen, he commanded the U.S. Transport Buford in World War I and the steamship Raphael Semmes, War Shipping Board, in World War II. Mariners Medal.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/book_of_honor_images/1012/thumbnail.jp
Au Coin, J. Edgar
No full textJ. 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\u27s. Flew twenty-one combat missions in Italy and sixteen in India. Missing over Imphal, Manipur, India. Born, Bangor. St. John\u27s School. Bangor High School, 1930. Mechanic with Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit.
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Ranks, Eugene John
No full textEugene 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\u27s School, Bangor. Employed in the newspaper business while studying one year at John Bapst High School. Baseball enthusiast.
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Giles, Lawrence M.
No full textLawrence M. Giles. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces. 3 February 1915 - 7 January 1943.
Enlisted, November 1940. Trained at Air Base, Savannah Georgia and Roosevelt Field, New York. Flying as crew-chief, from Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, on an advanced operational flight, he did not return from over the Coral Sea. Native of Ellsworth Falls. Ellsworth High School, 1932. Bangor resident. A lover of the forests.
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Ashworth, Jr., Leonard Victor
No full textLeonard 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.
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She\u27s Ready, Too -- Buy War Bonds
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