Leonard Peter Supulski (1920-1943)

Leonard Supulski was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1920, one of the twelve children of a Lithuanian immigrant. He graduated from Kingston High School and entered nearby Dickinson College in Carlisle with the class of 1942. He attended the College for four years but fell just short of the credits needed to graduate. He participated in the Commons Club, played basketball and ran track, but his most memorable contribution to campus life was his career as a star football receiver, perhaps the best in College history. His skills as an athlete allowed him to play for the Philadelphia Eagles before enlisting in early 1943.

Supulski entered the Army Air Corps as a private and completed flight navigation training at Selman Field in Louisiana, receiving his commission in July 24, 1943. Following further training at Moses Lake, Washington, and after a short leave to visit his wife of a year, June Lutz Supulski, in her native Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, he reported in August to the 582 Bomb Squadron for advanced training in Nebraska. Two weeks later, Leonard Supulski was killed in the crash of a routine flight along with seven others near Kearny, Nebraska on August 31, 1943.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).