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310 Yale University Obituary Record Warren Arthur Hindenlang, B.S. 1942. Born October 21, 1920, in Foxboro, Mass. Died August 5, 1944, on Chichi Jima, Bomn Islands. Father, Arthur Hindenlang, foreman Foxboro Instrument Company; son of Leopold and Babetha (Foester) Hindenlang. Mother, Florence Elizabeth (Spaans) Hindenlang; daughter of Simon and Cornelia (Van Houdt) Spaans of Boston, Mass Foxboro High School and Wilbraham (Mass ) Academy. Industrial administration course; scholar of the second rank Freshman year; on Freshman Hockey Squad and Basketball and Baseball teams; 150-pound Football Team Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years; University Basketball Team and Junior University Baseball Team Junior and Senior years; member Jonathan Edwards College (hockey team Junior and Senior years), Tau Beta Pi, and Chi Phi. Industrial engineer Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company, Quincy, Mass, 1942; member Umversahst Church, Foxboro. Unmarried. Entered Naval Air Corps, US Naval Reserve, as aviation cadet November 12,1942, prefhght training at Chapel Hill, N.C, November, 1942- February, 1943; primary flight training at Peru, Ind, February-May, 1943, at Pensacola, Fla , June i-September 3, 1943; commissioned Ensign September 3, 1943, operational training at Hollywood, Fla, September- October, 1943, reported at San Diego Naval Base November 17, 1943; stationed at Oak Harbor, Wash, until January 6, 1944; assigned to Fleet Air Wing Two and sent overseas February 1, 1944, as navigator and later copilot of a B-24 (Liberator), in Squadron VB-109 (Miller's Raiders), to the Gilbert Islands, Kwajelein, Emwetok, and Saipan Ensign Hindenlang's plane crashed at Futami Ko, Chichi Jima, August 4, 1944 He survived the crash and after questioning by Japanese authorities was delivered to Japanese Army headquarters On August 5 he was executed by the Japanese in the Kominato area on Chichi Jima and his ashes were interred at the scene of the execution, later the ashes were exhumed by U S Occupational Forces and rebuned in the Fourth Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima Posthumously awarded the Air Medal, Presidential Citation for Squadron VB-109, ano^ tne Order of the Purple Heart Survived by mother Walter Edwin Newcomb, Jr., Class of 1942. Born October i, 1920, in Cleveland, Ohio. Died August 11,1944, in Prestwic\, Scotland. Father, Walter Edwin Newcomb, D D S , an orthodontist in Cleveland. Mother, Louise (Ruggles) Newcomb. University School, Cleveland. Entered Yale in September, 1938; biologi-
Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
Creator | Yale University |
Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
Date | 1940-1945 |
Call Number | Yb 65 |
Language | English |
Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
Type | Periodical |
Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
Title | Page 310 |
Transcript | 310 Yale University Obituary Record Warren Arthur Hindenlang, B.S. 1942. Born October 21, 1920, in Foxboro, Mass. Died August 5, 1944, on Chichi Jima, Bomn Islands. Father, Arthur Hindenlang, foreman Foxboro Instrument Company; son of Leopold and Babetha (Foester) Hindenlang. Mother, Florence Elizabeth (Spaans) Hindenlang; daughter of Simon and Cornelia (Van Houdt) Spaans of Boston, Mass Foxboro High School and Wilbraham (Mass ) Academy. Industrial administration course; scholar of the second rank Freshman year; on Freshman Hockey Squad and Basketball and Baseball teams; 150-pound Football Team Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years; University Basketball Team and Junior University Baseball Team Junior and Senior years; member Jonathan Edwards College (hockey team Junior and Senior years), Tau Beta Pi, and Chi Phi. Industrial engineer Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company, Quincy, Mass, 1942; member Umversahst Church, Foxboro. Unmarried. Entered Naval Air Corps, US Naval Reserve, as aviation cadet November 12,1942, prefhght training at Chapel Hill, N.C, November, 1942- February, 1943; primary flight training at Peru, Ind, February-May, 1943, at Pensacola, Fla , June i-September 3, 1943; commissioned Ensign September 3, 1943, operational training at Hollywood, Fla, September- October, 1943, reported at San Diego Naval Base November 17, 1943; stationed at Oak Harbor, Wash, until January 6, 1944; assigned to Fleet Air Wing Two and sent overseas February 1, 1944, as navigator and later copilot of a B-24 (Liberator), in Squadron VB-109 (Miller's Raiders), to the Gilbert Islands, Kwajelein, Emwetok, and Saipan Ensign Hindenlang's plane crashed at Futami Ko, Chichi Jima, August 4, 1944 He survived the crash and after questioning by Japanese authorities was delivered to Japanese Army headquarters On August 5 he was executed by the Japanese in the Kominato area on Chichi Jima and his ashes were interred at the scene of the execution, later the ashes were exhumed by U S Occupational Forces and rebuned in the Fourth Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima Posthumously awarded the Air Medal, Presidential Citation for Squadron VB-109, ano^ tne Order of the Purple Heart Survived by mother Walter Edwin Newcomb, Jr., Class of 1942. Born October i, 1920, in Cleveland, Ohio. Died August 11,1944, in Prestwic\, Scotland. Father, Walter Edwin Newcomb, D D S , an orthodontist in Cleveland. Mother, Louise (Ruggles) Newcomb. University School, Cleveland. Entered Yale in September, 1938; biologi- |