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Carl R. McPherson has come back to the place of his glorious boyhood, Franklin, perhaps to make his home, after more than 35 years on the Pacific coast, but he comes with a thrilling and sad story about his 25-year-old son, Sgt. Carl R. McPherson, Jr. Sgt. McPherson was killed by the Japs [June 15, […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8–(AP)–The Navy Department today announced that Arthur Franklin Krutsch, seaman second class, of Jackson, Mich., is being held by the Japanese as a prisoner of war. Other Michigan Navy casualties are: Melvin Lee Roy Sommers, pharmacist’s mate, [second] class, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sommers, of 5752 Van Dyke, Detroit, wounded [November […]

NEW LONDON, Feb. 9 – The body of Edward C. Krisha, 19, who was killed in action in the South Pacific, will arrive at the Fitch Funeral Home here Thursday afternoon, where friends may call. The youth entered the Marine Corps on March 9, 1943 and went overseas Dec. 3 the same year. He was […]

Natt A. Piper Jr., private first class in the Marines, has been killed in action [February 20, 1944] in the South Pacific according to word received by his father, Natt Piper, architect and contractor who is on a year’s leave of absence from the office of chief city building inspector. The younger Piper had lived […]

The Navy Department announced recently the death [February 19, 1944] of Sgt. Wayne R. Green of the United States Marine Corps. He is the son of Mrs. Fern Green of 312 North Faulkner Street, Pampa.

Private First Class Ernest A. Elder Jr., USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Elder, 1405 Yale Avenue, was killed in action in the Southwest Pacific February 9 [1944]. Private Elder was born in Salt Lake City March 21, 1925, a son of Ernest A. and LaVon D. Elder. He was educated in Salt […]

HASTINGS, Jan. 26—(AP)—Pfc. William M. Ott, 21, Marine veteran of the battle of Midway, was killed this morning [January 26, 1944] when a jeep he was driving overturned, Capt. D. F. Patterson, commanding officer of the Hastings Navy Depot, said. Ott has been on limited shore duty at the depot for the last year after […]

EDGERTON –Pfc. Carmen Nelson, 19, formerly a resident of Edgerton and a member of a Marine Corps Raider battalion, has been killed in action [December 30, 1943] in the Southwest Pacific, friends in Edgerton learned from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Nelson, Sr., who are now living in Casmalia, Calif. Born in Edgerton, Pfc. […]

Reburial services for Marine Cpl. Claire Sanford Madson, killed in action on Bougainville Dec. 26, 1943, at the age of 22, were to be 2 p.m. today at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The Rev. Frederick L. Von Husen, pastor of First English Lutheran, Grand Rapids, and former Army chaplain in the South Pacific, was to […]

Sheridan, Wyo., Jan. 21—Word has been received of the death in action [December 26, 1943] in the South Pacific area of James P. Kelso, 18, son of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. E. Bryan Kelso of Big Horn. He was a private in the Marine Corps, enlisting in December 1942. His father is now stationed with […]