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JUNCTION CITY—Sgt. Wyatt H. Percell, 28, Marine Corps, was killed in action Feb. 20 [1945] on Iwo Jima, according to word coming this week to his wife, Mrs. Luella Dittman Percell, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Percell, Alvadore. Sgt. Percell went into the service in 1941 and went overseas in 1942. He returned […]

Captain Dwayne E. Mears, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion G. Mears, 1916 East California Avene, died February 20, 1945, of wounds received in action on Iwo Island according to a message from Lieutenant General A. A. Vandegrift, commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Captain Mears is also survived by a brother, Second […]

Sgt. Jack Connors, Marine Corps, was killed on Iwo Jima February 19 [1945], according to word received by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Verona Connors, N6123 Howard. He was a graduate of North Central High School and went into the Marines in 1939. He is survived by his mother in Nevada, and a brother, Wilson, who is […]

Next of kin of all men named below have been notified previously and kept informed of any change in status directly or by the War or Navy Department. Navy Dead: Marine Cpl. Donald L. Beckel [February 19, 1945]. Wife, Mrs. Donald L. Beckel. Father, Herman M. Beckel, Austin.

Missing in action at Iwo Jima since Feb. 19, 1945, Second Lt. Robert C. B. Sherry, USMC, former Coronado High School athlete, has been reported as officially dead. Lieutenant Sherry, who rose from the ranks in combat, had served with Carlson’s Raiders and was at Guadalcanal and Bougainville. The Marine Corps commandant’s office in Washington […]

The Navy lst of 333 casualties today included one Pittsburgh man and one Tarentum man dead, one Munhall man and one Sharpsburg man wounded and another Sharpsburg man missing. Three other district men were reported as dead and one missing. Dead [February 19, 1945]: Marine Lt. George C. Jovanovich, Ambridge.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Doyle have received a telegram from the War Department notifying them of the death [April 2, 1945] of their eldest son, Sergeant Philip D. Doyle of Co. L, 3rd Bn, 4th Marines, 6th Division in the South Pacific. The sympathy of the entire county is extended to the family.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 23—(AP)—John H. King Jr., Marine private first class, stationed at Moffett Field, was killed and his companion, Cpl. Lawrence C. Byerly was severely injured today [December 23, 1944] in a collision of their car and a truck on Bayshore Highway. Byerly was taken to Moffett Field Hospital.

Sgt. John D. Simonich of the Marine Corps, husband of the former Lois Wertz of Atchison, was killed in an explosion at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif., December 12 [1944]. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Jacqueline Anne, four months. Sgt. Simonich was in the first wave of Marines to hit the Solomons […]

The Navy Department today announced casualties which included Pfc. Alton L. Glenn, of the Marine Corps, as dead [October 8, 1944]. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Glenn of McLean. Private Glenn was previously reported wounded on Oct. 13.