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Killed in action on April 4, 1945, at Okinawa Island, Corporal F. Bryan Healy, Jr., beloved son of F. Bryan Healy, Sr. and Alice M. Healy (nee League). Funeral from his late residence, 3424 Dillon Street, on Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Requiem High Mass at St. Brigid’s Church at 9 a.m. Interment in Baltimore National […]

Casualty lists released yesterday by the War and Navy Departments included the names of 96 Southern California officers and enlisted men. Of that number the Navy listed 14 dead and 2 wounded; the Army 15 dead, 47 wounded, 9 missing in action and 9 reported German prisoners of war. The lists follow: Navy Dead [April […]

Washington, D.C., June 6—The Office of War Information today made public a casualty list containing the names of Army and Navy men killed, wounded, and missing. The list includes 86 from Chicago and vicinity. The next of kin have been kept informed of any changes in the status of casualties since this report was compiled, […]

Funeral services for Pfc. Harold Moth, 29, of Fyler Road, Kirkville, will be held this afternoon at his late home, Rev. Buchanan officiating. Interment will be made in Fyler Cemetery. Pfc. Moth of the U.S. Marine Corps was killed instantly Tuesday [April 3, 1945] at about 2:25 p.m. when the light truck he was driving […]

A lone machine gun did the fighting for an entire company of Marines for more than three hours during a Jap ambush on Okinawa recently. And the man who manned the machine gun—and eventually paid with his life for his heroism—was Pfc. Fernando E. Gonzales of 1019 S. Fickett St., Los Angeles. Ambushed by a […]

Washington, July 21—The Navy Departments has announced 630 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, including 82 dead, 488 wounded and 60 missing, bringing to 136,865 the total casualties since Pearl Harbor. The following 18 Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island men are included: Dead [April 2, 1945]: Platoon Sgt. John E. Hojnacki, Marine […]

Washington D.C., May 17—A casualty list containing the names of Army and Navy personnel killed, wounded and missing in action was made public today by the Office of War Information. The list includes 131 from Chicago and vicinity. The next of kin have been kept informed of any change in the status of casualties since […]

Washington, May 31—The Navy Department has announced 1,124 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, including 189 dead, 805 wounded and 130 missing, bringing to 112,868 the total since Pearl Harbor. The following 37 Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island men are included: Dead [April 2, 1945]: Corp. William J. Rhinow, Marine—Mother, Mrs. Ella […]

George Suttle, of near Lyons, has been advised that this grandson, Cpl. Dale Suttle, Jr., 20, of the Marines, was killed in action on April 2 [1945]. He was with the Sixth Division and it is believed his death occurred during the fighting on Okinawa Island. He was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. […]

BARBERTON—Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Paul L. Mills Funeral Home for Cpl. George Johnston Karr, 21, who was killed in action on Okinawa April [2], 1945. Before enlisting, Cpl. Karr lived at 536 Yale St., Barberton. The family home now is at 74 Borton Ave., Akron. He was a graduate […]