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Citations for gallantry, signed by President Harry S. Truman and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, were read Saturday at services conducted for Sgt. Thomas Richard Bodell, at 36 E. 7th South. Sergeant Bodell, 26, decorated combat Marine who saw action in two wars, was killed in Korea June 10, 1951, while serving with the First Marine […]

PIKEVILLE, Ky., May 22 (UP) — Mallard Williams, about 35, was held here today on a charge of murdering a. Marine on leave from Camp Lejeune, N. C. Augustus Justice, 32, was shot to death Saturday night [May 19, 1951]. The shooting occurred at Card Gap on Lick Creek, about 18 miles from Pikeville. At […]

OCEANSIDE, Calif., April 27 (AP)—Shot in the head with his own carbine, S/Sgt. Oscar B. Terry, 32, of Austin, Tex., Was found dead in a company storeroom here Wednesday [April 25, 1951], the Marine Corps disclosed Friday. A board of investigation has been convened. It was not immediately determined whether the shooting was accidental, but […]

Lt. James Albert Gleaves Jr., 28, of Donelson, declared dead officially yesterday, was safe when he parachuted into enemy territory after being shot down over Korea in 1951. Lieutenant Gleaves’ father, James A. Gleaves Sr. of Overhill Drive, Donelson, received a wire notifying him of the Marine Corps’ declaration of his son’s death from Gen. […]

Funeral services were held in Detroit Friday for Ray W. Bussey, 30, husband of the former Miss Kay Griffin of East Liverpool, who died Sunday [February 4, 1951] in the Los Angeles Veterans Hospital. Son-in-law of Mrs. F. E. Griffin of Lisbon St., he died from the effects of injuries suffered while with the Marines […]

AURORA, Ill., Dec. 20 (INS) – Mrs. Rosemary Downs of Aurora was acting as hostess at a Christmas party of telephone employees last night when she received word of her husband’s death in Korea. Her husband, Sgt. William J. Downs, was killed in action Dec. 8 [1950] in the rear guard action of the Seventh […]

Marine T-Sgt. Daniel Carroll, 30, of Newark, World War II hero who was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry on New Georgia, was killed Dec. 7 [1950] in Korean action, according to word received Wednesday by his wife, Mrs. Lois Carroll. He was sent to the Korean Theater of war last July. Sgt. Carroll enlisted […]

Mrs. Ben McThompson received word Wednesday that her nephew Frank Joe Lawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vol Lawson of Maysville, was killed in action in Korea December 7 [1950]. Young Lawson was a member of the 1st Marine Division and had served with the Marines since enlisting soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) – The Department of Defense casualty list No. 203, covering casualties in the Korean area, released today, bears the names of the following Californians: Missing in action [November 28, 1950]: Sgt. Raymond R. Thornton, husband of Mrs. Aileen G. Thornton, 839 West 146th, Gardena.

War struck again at the same family for the second time in less than a decade when Staff Sergeant Gordon Garner, 29, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action in Korea. His father, Stanley S. Garner, widely known merchant and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, received a telegram yesterday at his home, […]