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Telegrams from the War Department yesterday advised Mrs. Quirino F. Rios, 2604 E. 106th St., that one son, Corp. Charles, 23, of the Marines, died May 26 [1945] of wounds suffered on Okinawa, and that another, Pvt. Alfred, 20, has been liberated after a year and a half in a German prison camp. Mercedes, a […]

The Navy Department today announced one Floridan dead and one missing, while eight Florida Marines have been wounded. On the War Department’s Florida casualty list were two Army wounded. Navy dead [May 25, 1945]: Sgt. Jack Harvey Braswell, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Braswell, Jacksonville.

Seven more Mississippians have been reported by the Navy Department as killed in action. Five have been wounded, three in the Army and two Navy men. One is missing. Dead [May 25, 1945]: Thomas Perry Rutherford, USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Scott Rutherford, Route 3, New Albany.

Another Valparaiso boy has given his life for his country and has been enshrined on the honor roll of heroic deeds. Gunnery Sgt. William A. Raynes of the United States Marine Corps, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Watts, 402 Brown Street, was killed in action on Okinawa on May 25 [1945], according to a telegram received […]

The first Hancock County man reported to have died in the bloody battle of Okinawa is Marine Pfc. William G. Frost. The 20-year-old Marine died in the deadly Pacific island struggle May 25 [1945], according to a War Department message received by his mother, Mrs. Ethel Arthur, Route 1, Greenfield, on Monday. No details of […]

FERNDALE, June 7– Mrs. Maxine Robertson, who has lived in Ferndale with her sister, Mrs. George A. Waldner, for two years, has received word from the Navy department that her husband, Lt. John D. Robertson, Marine Corps Reserve, was killed May 24 [1945] in action on Okinawa. Lt. Robertson has been overseas with the 6th […]

SHERMAN, Texas, March 29—Reburial services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Tom Bean Baptist Church for Marine Sgt. Chester David Hash. Sergeant Hash was killed in action on Okinawa May 24, 1945, at the age of 26. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery here, with military rites conducted by the American […]

Marine Lt. Jack W. Willard, 26, who had been captured once and wounded twice in action against the Japanese was killed in action May 23 [1945] on Okinawa The Navy Department reported his death in a telegram to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Willard, 7 Moore Avenue. Lieutenant Willard, a Marine for more […]

Mrs. Clara Fosen received word that her nephew, Marnold Shaw, 21, had died [May 23, 1945] from wounds received in action at Okinawa, where he was serving with the Marines. He had expected to be home soon on furlough.

Navy war casualties as released by the Office of War Information included the following from this area: Navy Dead [May 23, 1945]: Pfc. Claude Hollis Jernigan, USMCR, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Jernigan, Teague.