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Cpl. [Ralph E.] Moore, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Moore, Pine Hills, was killed in action on Guam on July 29 [1945]. This week a Marine Corps reporter in the South Pacific told of Cpl. Moore’s one-man war against the Japs on the Orote Peninsula where he killed an estimated 50 Japs and […]

Wabasha, Minn.—(Special)—Private funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the E. B. Wise funeral home for Corporal Blaine Williams Lackey. The Rev. J. N. Barnett officiated. Corporal Lackey was born in St. Paul November 19, 1923 and came to Wabasha at the age of 12. He graduated in 1941 and entered service in […]

REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb.—A memorial service for Marine Pfc. Lyle T. Blodgett will be held here Monday. The son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Blodgett of Republican City, he was fatally wounded [June 25, 1945] in the battle of [Okinawa]. His body has been returned to the United States. Burial will be in Golden Gate […]

FARMERVILLE, La., March 30—(Special)—The body of Sgt. J. E. Owens, 22, killed in action in Okinawa June [21], 1945, will arrive in Ruston Thursday at 9:05 a.m. The funeral will be held in Mt. Ararat Church Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev. W. E. King and Rev. J. L. Beasley will officiate. There will be a […]

A memorial mass for Marine Pvt. Daniel T. Rees, who was killed June 21 [1945] on Okinawa, will be said in St. Rita Chapel, 63rd St. and Oakley Ave., at noon next Sunday. Private Rees was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rees, 2036 W. Garfield Blvd. He enlisted in service in February, 1943, […]

Mrs. Martin Nelson, 1625 Pearl, has returned from Iraan, Texas, where she attended recent memorial services for a brother, Cpl. C. W. Johnson, a member of the 6th Marines [Division] who was killed on Okinawa June 21 [1945]. Corporal Johnson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Johnson, Iraan. Dr. Don Morris, president of […]

Funeral rites will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Fred Cook Mortuary Chapel at Nitro for Marine Cpl. Billie Ray McNeely, 20, who was killed June 20, 1945 on Okinawa. Rev. Lloyd Myers will officiate and burial will be in Cunningham Memorial Park at St. Albans with American Legion Post 108 in charge. […]

Seventeen district men are listed as dead and 58 others are reported wounded by the Army and Navy Departments in today’s casualty list. The next of kin have been notified. Their names and addresses follow: Marines—Dead [June 20, 1945]: Paul D. Curtin, Pfc., New Castle.

Pfc. [Daryl] Dean Campbell, 22-year-old, twice-wounded Marine, was killed in action June 20 [1945] on Okinawa, his mother learned yesterday. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, 3 Burlington Ave., the young Marine had received shrapnel wounds last July 21 on Guam and again in May on Okinawa. He entered the Marine Corps in October, 1942, and […]

RANDOLPH—Graveside services for Corp. Kib Arnold Jacobson, who on June 19, 1945 was killed in action against the enemy in the service of his country at Okinawa, Ryuku Islands, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Randolph City Cemetery under the direction of Bishop Earl F. Passey, with military honors by Medicine Butte […]