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Names of 67 more Southlanders appeared on casualty lists released yesterday by the War and Navy departments. Of the total, 24 are dead, 3 missing and 40 wounded. They are: Navy Dead [May 23, 1945]: Marine Pfc. Glenn Sherlie Stout, 216 W. Norwood Place, Wilmar.

The second of two sons of a Price Hill mother has been killed on Okinawa and a Walnut Hills soldier has died of wounds suffered on Luzon, it was reported yesterday. Six more Greater Cincinnatians have been wounded in action. Marine Corp. John James McLaughlin, 4117 Eight St., Price Hill, was killed in action May […]

These reports are based on prior notification to next of kin. In case of divergence between this list and the last War or Navy Department information sent to the next of kin, notification to the next of kin always is final authority. Minnesota Navy Dead [May 20, 1945]: Overby J. Stoskopf, Marine Cpl. Parents, Mr. […]

Pfc. Alvin R. Ahlgrim, 21, a Marine, was killed in action in the fighting on Okinawa, his mother, Mrs. Gladys Ahlgrim, West Brainerd, was informed today. The message, sent by Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, commanding the Marine Corps, said the Marine was killed May 20 [1945]. Pfc. Ahlgrim was born in Brainerd and was a […]

The Office of War Information listed the names of 11 Arizonians on the official casualty roll released for today, the names of two Tusconians are included among them. Reported dead by the Navy [was]: Pfc. George Lorenzo Crosby, USMCR [May 20, 1945], son of Mrs. Florence G. Crosby, Phoenix.

Mrs. C. B. Padgett was informed by the War Department that her son, Pfc. W. G. Bock, Jr., had died from wounds received May 20 [1945] on Okinawa with the 6th Division of the Marines. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Nels P. Highberg.

PHOENIX, Jan. 8. (U.P.)—The Silver Star Medal will be presented Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Dorman Thomas, Cottonwood, parents of a Marine hero killed in action [May 20, 1945] on Okinawa. The tribute to Pfc. Vern W. Thomas was awarded for “his fearless and unwavering devotion to duty in moving forward voluntarily to assist a […]

Mrs. F. Harley Jones, now residing in Douglas, who lost her husband and 15-year-old son, Billy, in December, 1943, when the fishing tug Gotham foundered near the Saugatuck breakwater with the loss of five men, received word at 5:30 p.m. on Memorial Day that her eldest son, Pfc. Harold Leon, 21, of the 6th Marine […]

Corp. Robert S. Sorenson, age 19, killed in action May 19, 1945 on Okinawa while serving his country with the 6th Marine Division. He was born in Racine Aug. 30, 1925. Corp. Sorenson was attending Washington Park High School at the time he enlisted in the Marines. Sept. 14, 1942. He received his boot training […]

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Myers, 1423 South Union Street, are in receipt of a telegram from the War Department advising them that their son, Pfc. Leo Myers died in action on Okinawa on May 19 [1945]. He was with the veteran Sixth Marine Division and had been overseas for 18 months. No information concerning the […]