Gouverneur Free Press - Wednesday June 13, 1945
An official war department notification received last Wednesday carried the news that Staff Sgt Robert S. Tremlett, 25, son of Mr and Mrs. John L. Tremlett, 28 South Gordon St, was killed in action over France, June 23, 1944. Sgt Tremlett was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was reported missing in action as of the date the telegram of last week announced he died for his country.
The same plane carried as pilot, Lt. Warren Whittemore, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Van Whittemore, Canton. Lt. Whittemore was released in April 1945 from a Nazi prison when the Allies overran Germany.
Staff Sgt Tremlett had five missions before D-Day. This year (1945) in March, his mother was presented at Rome Army air base an air medal with oak leaf cluster with citation for meritorious performance in air combat.
The aviator had written a brief letter to his parents just before the fatal mission. The letter was dated June 21, 1944 and said he had recently visited London. With it were clippings telling of sorties in which it was presumed Sgt Termlett saw action.
He had been overseas since April 25, 1944. He was born in Gouverneur, Oct 3, 1919. His father is employed at the Pioneer Ice Cream division of the Borden Company here. Sgt Tremlett graduated from Gouverneur high school with the class of 1938. He had played football two seasons. He was a member of the Amphictyon Society and the Thespians.
He had been employed at the New York air brake company, Watertown, as a machine operator before he was drafted NOv 13, 1942. He trained at Tyndall field and St. Petersburg Fla, Nuckley field, Col Salt Lake Sity, Utah; Myrtle Beach and Greenville air base S.C.
Besides his parents the family includes a younger brother, Ira, who has recently been called for induction. He is 18. Also there are three sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Huntley, whose husband is with the army overseas; Mrs. CHarles (Elizabeth) O'Brien, and Miss Daisy Tremlett, cadet nurse at the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown. All are from Gouverneur.
An official war department notification received last Wednesday carried the news that Staff Sgt Robert S. Tremlett, 25, son of Mr and Mrs. John L. Tremlett, 28 South Gordon St, was killed in action over France, June 23, 1944. Sgt Tremlett was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was reported missing in action as of the date the telegram of last week announced he died for his country.
The same plane carried as pilot, Lt. Warren Whittemore, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Van Whittemore, Canton. Lt. Whittemore was released in April 1945 from a Nazi prison when the Allies overran Germany.
Staff Sgt Tremlett had five missions before D-Day. This year (1945) in March, his mother was presented at Rome Army air base an air medal with oak leaf cluster with citation for meritorious performance in air combat.
The aviator had written a brief letter to his parents just before the fatal mission. The letter was dated June 21, 1944 and said he had recently visited London. With it were clippings telling of sorties in which it was presumed Sgt Termlett saw action.
He had been overseas since April 25, 1944. He was born in Gouverneur, Oct 3, 1919. His father is employed at the Pioneer Ice Cream division of the Borden Company here. Sgt Tremlett graduated from Gouverneur high school with the class of 1938. He had played football two seasons. He was a member of the Amphictyon Society and the Thespians.
He had been employed at the New York air brake company, Watertown, as a machine operator before he was drafted NOv 13, 1942. He trained at Tyndall field and St. Petersburg Fla, Nuckley field, Col Salt Lake Sity, Utah; Myrtle Beach and Greenville air base S.C.
Besides his parents the family includes a younger brother, Ira, who has recently been called for induction. He is 18. Also there are three sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Huntley, whose husband is with the army overseas; Mrs. CHarles (Elizabeth) O'Brien, and Miss Daisy Tremlett, cadet nurse at the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown. All are from Gouverneur.
Gouverneur Free Press - Wednesday June 13, 1945
An official war department notification received last Wednesday carried the news that Staff Sgt Robert S. Tremlett, 25, son of Mr and Mrs. John L. Tremlett, 28 South Gordon St, was killed in action over France, June 23, 1944. Sgt Tremlett was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was reported missing in action as of the date the telegram of last week announced he died for his country.
The same plane carried as pilot, Lt. Warren Whittemore, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Van Whittemore, Canton. Lt. Whittemore was released in April 1945 from a Nazi prison when the Allies overran Germany.
Staff Sgt Tremlett had five missions before D-Day. This year (1945) in March, his mother was presented at Rome Army air base an air medal with oak leaf cluster with citation for meritorious performance in air combat.
The aviator had written a brief letter to his parents just before the fatal mission. The letter was dated June 21, 1944 and said he had recently visited London. With it were clippings telling of sorties in which it was presumed Sgt Termlett saw action.
He had been overseas since April 25, 1944. He was born in Gouverneur, Oct 3, 1919. His father is employed at the Pioneer Ice Cream division of the Borden Company here. Sgt Tremlett graduated from Gouverneur high school with the class of 1938. He had played football two seasons. He was a member of the Amphictyon Society and the Thespians.
He had been employed at the New York air brake company, Watertown, as a machine operator before he was drafted NOv 13, 1942. He trained at Tyndall field and St. Petersburg Fla, Nuckley field, Col Salt Lake Sity, Utah; Myrtle Beach and Greenville air base S.C.
Besides his parents the family includes a younger brother, Ira, who has recently been called for induction. He is 18. Also there are three sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Huntley, whose husband is with the army overseas; Mrs. CHarles (Elizabeth) O'Brien, and Miss Daisy Tremlett, cadet nurse at the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown. All are from Gouverneur.
An official war department notification received last Wednesday carried the news that Staff Sgt Robert S. Tremlett, 25, son of Mr and Mrs. John L. Tremlett, 28 South Gordon St, was killed in action over France, June 23, 1944. Sgt Tremlett was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was reported missing in action as of the date the telegram of last week announced he died for his country.
The same plane carried as pilot, Lt. Warren Whittemore, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Van Whittemore, Canton. Lt. Whittemore was released in April 1945 from a Nazi prison when the Allies overran Germany.
Staff Sgt Tremlett had five missions before D-Day. This year (1945) in March, his mother was presented at Rome Army air base an air medal with oak leaf cluster with citation for meritorious performance in air combat.
The aviator had written a brief letter to his parents just before the fatal mission. The letter was dated June 21, 1944 and said he had recently visited London. With it were clippings telling of sorties in which it was presumed Sgt Termlett saw action.
He had been overseas since April 25, 1944. He was born in Gouverneur, Oct 3, 1919. His father is employed at the Pioneer Ice Cream division of the Borden Company here. Sgt Tremlett graduated from Gouverneur high school with the class of 1938. He had played football two seasons. He was a member of the Amphictyon Society and the Thespians.
He had been employed at the New York air brake company, Watertown, as a machine operator before he was drafted NOv 13, 1942. He trained at Tyndall field and St. Petersburg Fla, Nuckley field, Col Salt Lake Sity, Utah; Myrtle Beach and Greenville air base S.C.
Besides his parents the family includes a younger brother, Ira, who has recently been called for induction. He is 18. Also there are three sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Huntley, whose husband is with the army overseas; Mrs. CHarles (Elizabeth) O'Brien, and Miss Daisy Tremlett, cadet nurse at the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown. All are from Gouverneur.
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