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Samuel T. Fuller

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1st Lt. Samuel T. Fuller Infantry - U.S. Army 1913-1944 Samuel T. Fuller was a graduate of Kennett High School in the Class of 1931.  He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Fuller of North Conway, NH.  Sam entered the Army as a private on June 29, 1941.  In November of 1943, he went overseas with a motorized infantry division, as a first lieutenant.  He received his Ed.M at the University of Vermont in 1941. Sam was killed in action on July 27, 1944, presumably in an operation about St. Lo in France, as a part of the Normandy invasion by Allied Forces.  He had been in combat for a short period of time when he was mortally wounded. Born in Brandon, VT on June 22, 1913 he was the 10th generation in the direct male line of descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller of the Mayflower. As a young boy, Sam attended school in Lancaster, NH and in 1926 he came to live in Conway when his father was elected to be Superintendent of Schools in Conway.  Sam entered Kennett High School in the fall of 1927 and