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Gallupe, Arthur Duncan
No full textArthur Duncan Gallupe. Captain, U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service. Headquarters Staff, 36th Infantry Division.
10 April 1920 - 1 September 1944.
Bangor High School, 1938. Rifle team president. Enlisted 1939. Commissioned 1942. Combat service included Pearl Harbor; African Campaign; Salerno, Anzio, Naples, Cassino, Volturno River, and Rome, Italy; and Lyons, France, where he was killed in action. His division athletic Field at Laupheim, Germany, is named in his honor. Purple Heart.
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Dunphey, Claire Frederic
No full textClaire Frederic Dunphey. Electrician\u27s Mate First Class, U.S. Navy-U.S.S. Langley. 19 January 1908 - 1 March 1942
Bangor High, 1926. Enlisted, 1927. Served continuously on ships Lunson, Herbert Yarnall and Langley until Langley was sunk off Tjilijap, Java, 27 February 1942. Rescued by Tanker Pecos. Killed in action with her. Coached Navy baseball teams to Pacific Coast and Fleet championships. American, Asiatic, Philippine Defense medals, Purple Heart.
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Gerrish, Rodney J.
No full textRodney 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\u27s helper, his recreations hunting and fishing.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/book_of_honor_images/1043/thumbnail.jp
Babbain, Jr., Joseph J.
No full textJoseph J. Babbain, Jr. Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces, 17th Pursuit Squadron, Weather Service. 31 January 1915 - 11 June 1942.
On duty at Nichols Field, Philippine Islands, at outbreak of war, having enlisted, September 1940. On Corregidor at its fall. Died in Japanese prison somewhere on Luzon. Educated, St. John\u27s and St. Mary\u27s schools, Bangor. Graduated, St Thomas College, Chatham, New Brunswick, 1931. Real Estate dealer. Enjoyed hockey and swimming.
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Flood, Jr., James Edward
No full textJames 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.
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Hopkins, Edward R.
No full textEdward R. Hopkins. Private, U.S. Army Infantry.
Killed in action 16 August 1944.
After receiving combat training in North Carolina he proceeded to the European theatre of the war and was killed in action in France. In civil life he was a truck driver in the beverage business in Bangor. Member of the Norman N. Dow Post No. 1761, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Purple Heart.
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Cassidy, Jr., James Daniel
No full textJames Daniel Cassidy, Jr.
Chief Turret Captain, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. Washington.
15 April 1894 - 19 September 1945.
His nearly thirty years in the Navy began December 1915 at Portland, Maine, and ended with his death of illness aboard the U.S.S. Washington off San Francisco. Among his ships were Wyoming, California, and Arizona. Regimental commander, Naval Training Station, Farragut, Iowa. Buried, Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California.
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Rogers, George H.
No full textGeorge 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\u27s School. Participated in many sports and enjoyed work with tools. Enlisted on his birthday, 7 February 1942.
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Orr, W. Carlton
No full textW. Carlton Orr Private first class, U.S. Army Air Forces Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 17th Air Base Group. 12 April 1920 - 7 December 1941.
Debater, essayist, and National Honor Society member at Bangor High School where he graduated, 1939, he entered the business of market gardening, but soon enlisted. He was on duty as a head cook at Hickam Field, Hawaii, when killed by the enemy on Pearl Harbor Day, Presidential Citation. Purple Heart.
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The Crusaders: a history of the 42nd Bombardment Group (M)
Get PDFFrom Chapter 1:
The birth and the early creeping of the 42nd Bombardment Group, Medium, may well seem lost in the mists of antiquity that hung over the United States before World War II. Indeed to many of our members, veterans of 60 or 70 missions in the Solomons or in the Indies and Philippines, veterans of the long road home via New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, the Russells, Stirling, New Guinea --- whether in the air or on the ground -- the early history of the Group is an unknown quantity save for shreds and scraps of information gathered from the casual remarks of old oldtimers.
But if this history is to be a complete narrative of your Group it is necessary to go back almost beyond the memory of the oldest member. To go back, in fact, to January 15, 1941, when according to the official record, The 42nd Bombardment Group (M) was activated from the 7th Bombardment Group (H), G.H.Q. Air Force, at Fort Douglas, Utah, under the jurisdiction of G.H.Q. Air Force, with cadre furnished by the 7th Bombardment Group (H).https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1113/thumbnail.jp