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One of the few First Marine Raiders to survive all the major battles of the South Pacific, Pfc. George Winslow Galgano of 214 North Austin Boulevard was killed in action on June 11 [1945] at Okinawa. Enlisting while residing in Chicago three years ago, Pfc. Galgano saw 30 months of decisive action during which most […]

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Williams, 601 N Knott Street, have received word that their son, Cpl. John Harold Williams, was killed in action on June 11 [1945] while serving with the 6th Marine Division. Overseas just two months, he was on his second tour of duty in the Pacific Theater. Cpl. Williams returned from […]

Pfc. Kenneth E. Bowland, 18, son of Mrs. Dora Bowland, 3023 Rincon Street, was killed in action on Okinawa June 11 [1945] while serving with the Sixth Marine Division, his mother was informed yesterday by the Navy Department. Bowland, who was graduated from Rockport High School in 1943 and joined the Marines the same month, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Eleven Iowans were listed as dead in a report of casualties announced Monday by the Navy Department. Seven others, all Marines, were listed as wounded. The War Department casualties included names of five Iowa men wounded in the Pacific. Navy Dead [June 10, 1945]: Pfc. Bernard Warren Rudkin, Des Moines.

Pfc. Paul (Whitey) Siekkinen, of Vernon, O., who was killed June [10], 1945, at Oroku Peninsula in the South Pacific while on duty with the U.S. Marines, will be returned here for burial. Born Aug. 9, 1924, in Ashtabula, Pfc. Siekkinen was a son of Andrew and Mary Siekkinen. He enlisted March 3, 1943, while […]

Funeral for Pfc. Jack Delbert Stine, 20, who was killed June 8, 1945, on Okinawa will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Stine, Beulah Church Road. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. […]

Word has been received that the son of Maj. Edward Ford Stevenson and Mrs. Mary Popham Stevenson, Sgt. Laurence Stevenson, USMC, was killed in action June 8 [1945] on Okinawa. Sergeant Stevenson, a member of the [2nd] Raider Battalion, had been in the South Pacific for the past three years, and had seen action in […]

Reburial services for Corp. Donald W. Heinzen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Heinzen, Route 3, Sheboygan, were held at 8:30 a.m. today at Gerend’s Funeral Home and at 9 a.m. at St. Dominic’s Church. The Rev. George J. Knackert, pastor, celebrated the requiem high mass. Burial was made on the family lot in […]

COLUMBUS GROVE, Mar. 22—Final rites for Cpl. John B. Holmes, 24, USMC, who was killed in action on Okinawa, June 6, 1945, will be held at 9 a.m. Friday. Services will be conducted in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Karl Finsel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Cpl. Holmes was graduated […]

Pfc. Robert J. Banker, 19, was killed in action on Okinawa, June 6 [1945], according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Banker, 1544 ½ Packard Ave. He was born in Richland Center, Wis., and would have been 20 years old on June 29. He attended Berryville, Hansche, Franklin Junior and Washington […]