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The children of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church will sing the solemn high mass of requiem at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the church for Sgt. Jack Malloy, 22-year-old Marine, who died from wounds received on Okinawa Island on May 21 [1945]. Sergeant Malloy, a native son of Southern California, and a graduate of Wilson High School, […]

DIVIDEND, Utah County, March 7—Funeral services for 2nd Lt. Ira Donald Miller, 23, who was killed in action on Okinawa May 21, 1945, while serving with Carlson’s Raiders, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Provo City Burial Park by Rev. George J. Weber, Salt Lake Congregational Church minister. Military honors will be […]

Reburial services for Pfc. [William F.] Lord will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at White Chapel Cemetery under auspices of William Lord Detachment, Marine Corps League. Pfc. Lord was 20 when he was killed May 21, 1945, on Okinawa. Born in Detroit, he was graduated from Denby High School in 1943. Survivors are his parents, […]

Marine Sgt. Roland Johannes, 26, was killed at Okinawa May 21 [1945], according to word received yesterday by his wife, Margaret, 1933 N. 25th St. He had taken part also in the campaigns at Munda, New Georgia and Guam. Sgt. Johannes attended St. Michael’s Parochial School and Vocational High School and worked at Spiegel’s Printing […]

Cpl. Joseph A. Jablonicky, Jr., U.S.M.C., late of 1819 S. 11th Avenue, Maywood, killed in action at Okinawa Is., May 20, 1945, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jablonicky, brother of Mrs. Julia Novak, Mrs. Betty Werling, Mrs. Louise Olson, Lillian Charles and Charlotte. At rest Friday, April 8, after 2 p.m. Funeral Saturday, April […]

Washington, Sept. 10—(AP)—The Navy Department announced today that a previous report listing a Missoula, Mont., Marine, PFC Lester J. Earley, as wounded in action, was in error and that the Leatherneck was safe. His mother, Mrs. Lillian Earley, resides at Orchard Homes, Missoula. Another Missoula Marine, PFC Donald G. Probst, previously reported wounded in action, […]

Three San Bernardino County names appear on the Army and Navy casualty lists, released for publication today. Two were among the dead in the Pacific and the third is listed as wounded. Among the Navy dead [May 20, 1945] was: Cpl. Dean Wilson Wallace, U.S.M.C., son of Mrs. Etta N. Coveleski, Fontana.

Funeral services for Marine Corps Sergeant William Monroe Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Smith of Maricopa, who was killed on Okinawa Island, May 20, 1945, will be held in the Bonham Brothers Mortuary Chapel in San Diego at 1 p.m. April 5. A military burial will be accorded the deceased In Fort […]

Pfc. John Joseph Higgins, U.S.M.C., a member of a Marine Raider unit of the 6th Marine Division, was killed in action May 20 [1945], the Navy Department has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Higgins Sr., 1815 W. Houston St. Higgins attended the Sacred Heart Academy and Central Catholic High School. He enlisted […]

Peter James Myers, 21, pharmacist mate first class, USNR, serving with the Marines, was killed in action [May 20, 1945] in the Pacific, according to a telegram received by his mother, Mrs. Dixie Elizabeth Myers of Route 2, Green Ridge, Wednesday night. “Pete” as he was known, was with the Marines in action on Okinawa. […]