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World War II cast its somber shadow over the Smith Center community again this week when the body of Corp. Derrol D. Hubbard, gallant Marine, was brought back home for final services and interment. It was one of the paradoxes of fate that the young man who donned a Marine uniform on February 14, 1943 […]

Reburial services for Pfc. George Warren Small, a former employee of Titche-Goettinger Company, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Marlin, Fall County. Burial will be in Marlin with the Rev. J. T. Payne Jr. of Dallas officiating. Born at Odds, Limestone County, March 30, 1925, Small attended Texas […]

[Pvt] Robert G. Bolin, U.S.M.C., killed in action July 29, 1944, at Guam, beloved son of Stanley and Adeline, nee Wiese, dear brother of Stanley Jr., and Joyce Engh, fond grandson of Gust Emma Bolin, Herman and the late Bertha Wiese. Services Tuesday, 3 p.m., at funeral chapel, 4335-40 Fullerton Avenue. Interment Irving Park Cemetery. […]

WASHINGTON – (AP) – Names of 15 Michigan men—four dead and 11 wounded—were were included in a list of 312 naval casualties released today. The list includes 108 dead, 192 wounded and 12 missing. The Michigan dead include: Corp. Clarence Hoffman [July 29, 1944], Marine Corps, Alba.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP) – The Navy Department today announced 310 casualties of the United States naval forces, including 127 dead, 174 wounded and 9 missing. Among those named were the following from Michigan: Corp. Charles R. Mitchie, Marine Corps Reserve. Dead [July 29, 1944]. Mother, Olivia Mitchie, Detroit.

An Oakland member of the Fourth Marine Raiders, Cpl. Max L. Evans, 23, was killed in action July 29 [1944] on Guam, the Navy has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Evans of 2507 Scenic Avenue. Evans, who enlisted in September, 1942, had been overseas for 13 months. Formerly he was a member […]

The body of Pfc. Mike Sergo came home from the wars last night, arriving in Wautoma on the 8:40 train with a military escort. Pfc. Sergo (Mike to his friends) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sergo of Lohrville. Mike would have been pleased last night if he could have seen his veteran […]

Word has been received that Pfc. Jack R. Chuda of the Marine Corps has been killed in action [July 26, 1944] somewhere in the Pacific. Private Chuda had been in the Marine Corps since May, 1942. At San Diego he was the outstanding member of his training platoon. Assigned to a gun crew aboard the […]

Corporal Melvin Ralph White, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hanford White of Eaton, was killed [July 28, 1944] in the line of duty during the battle for Guam, his parents learned Thursday. Cpl. White served with a U.S. Marine Corps unit in the Pacific area, and was in the battle for Saipan and later […]

Twenty-four additional Southland men in the service of the United States Navy have been listed as casualties, the Navy Department announced yesterday, including 16 Los Angeles men. They are: Dead [July 28, 1944]: Pfc. William L. Bennett, U.S.M.C., 836 W. 75th St.