Class of 1941

John Campbell was born on the fourth of July, 1917, in Hightstown, New Jersey. The son of a carpet weaver who never finished high school, he attended the Peddie School in his home town and entered Dickinson on September 16, 1937 as a member of the class of 1941. While at the College, he participated in soccer, baseball, and basketball. Nicknamed "Soupy," he was also very active in campus organizations, including the Student Senate, the Athletic Association, Microcosm, and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, serving as treasurer and president, and of Raven's Claw.

Shortly after graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and after being accepted as a flying cadet was commissioned in the fall of 1942. He was assigned to North Africa following the landings there and was posted as missing on March 31, 1943 when a flight he was on did not return. He was later declared as killed in action.

Harry Jones was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania in December 1919 and after high school graduation he entered Dickinson in 1937. While at the College, he served on the Student Senate, and was a member of Skull and Key and president of Theta Chi.

On June 9, 1941, Jones graduated and a month later enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet. By July 1942 he received his wings and his commission and then served as an instructor. He applied for an assignment as a combat fighter pilot, and in late June 1943 joined an operational squadron on the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.

On March 13, 1944, Lt. Jones died when his aircraft crashed into the side of Mount Adagak near his base while leading his flight.

John Long was from Manheim, Pennsylvania and, after high school at East Hempfield, he entered Dickinson in September 1937. He graduated four years later with the class of 1941. He was a member of the Mohler Scientific Club, the Glee Club, the German Club, and Sigma Chi fraternity. He was also a manager for the varsity soccer team.

Long entered the Air Corps in July, 1941 and trained as a navigator, earning his wings and his commission on May 2, 1942. He became an instructor for more than two years at Hondo Field in Texas before being assigned to combat duty in the Pacific in late 1944. He served as group navigator for the 38th Bomb Group of the 5th Air Force stationed in the Lingayen Gulf, winning the Air Medal.

On August 9, 1945, in an attack on Kyushu, Japan, John Long's bomber crashed and he was killed in action. This incident took place five days before the Japanese surrender and eight days before Long's twenty-sixth birthday.

Robert Walsh was born in Plains, Pennsylvania in March 1920 and graduated from Plains High School in 1937. He spent one year at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1941 between his freshman year at Pennsylvania State University and his graduation from the University of Scranton. While at Dickinson he was a pledge of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

He enlisted in the Army Air Corps three weeks after Pearl Harbor; he trained in Alabama before basic flight school at Shaw Field in South Carolina and advanced training at Marianna Field in Florida, where he was commissioned in December 1942. He left the United States for active duty in March 1943. Walsh became part of the India-China Wing and on May 15, 1943 was posted as missing in action when his aircraft failed to return from a flight between India and China. Early in the following year, his parents received word that his body had been found with his crew in the wreckage of his aircraft in northern Burma, the victims of Japanese fire, and he was declared as killed in action.