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A member of a Marine Raider unit from St. Louis died in the Southwest Pacific, and a seaman is missing in the North Atlantic, it was announced yesterday. Four other men were listed last night as having been wounded in action in various theaters of war. Pvt. Gregory A. Smith, 24 years old, who was […]

Another hero of World War II will come home Sunday when the remains of the late Sgt. Herbert F. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Williams, of Collins, will arrive in Osceola at 1:52 p.m. on the Frisco. The body will be taken to the Goodrich Funeral Home where funeral arrangements will be […]

Pfc. Armin Harry Meister, age 19, passed away Nov. 25, 1943 from wounds received in action during the Bougainville operation while serving his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. Pfc. Meister was born in Oshkosh, Wis. on July 9, 1924. He served with the Headquarters Co., 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, was with the Carlson Raiders […]

Services for Pfc. Robert A. Peters, 407 N. Main St., Sharonville, are to be conducted at the Sharonville Presbyterian Church at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Burial will be at West Chester, Ohio. Private Peters was killed on Bougainville, November 24, 1943. He was nineteen years old. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Rose Peters, and a sister, […]

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Barritt, 8711 North Thirty-First Street, have been notified by the Navy Department that their son, Pfc. Earl E. Barritt, a Marine, was killed in action [November 24, 1943] in the South Pacific. He had been overseas a year and a half. January 25 would have marked the end of two […]

OAK GROVE, La., March 1–(Special)–The body of C. B. Tullos, who gave his life in the service of his country in battle in the Solomon Islands Nov. 24. 1943, will be returned here Tuesday. The funeral will be held in the Kilbourne Baptist Church Wednesday at 2 p.rn. and interment will be in the Kilbourne […]

Pfc. Walter V. Gibson Jr., 20, who joined the Marines with three schoolmates in February, !942 to “take a crack at the Japs was listed as dead [November 23, 1943] today in a Navy Department casualty report. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Gibson, 3908 Walnut Street. Gibson, who won All-City […]

Washington, Jan. 19 (UP)—The Navy Department today announced 155 casualties of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The list included: John Richard Mosbrucker, hospital apprentice, 1/c, USNR, dead [November 23, 1943]; wife, Mrs. Virginia M. Mosbrucker, 7355 17th St., Seattle.

Alabamians who are missing in action have been listed by the War Department as follows: Sgt. Alfred E. Coleman [November 22, 1943], son of Mrs. Alfred H. Coleman, Birmingham.

Platoon Sgt. Leonard E. Williams, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Williams, and husband of Mrs. Ettie Gollott Williams, enlisted in the Marine Corps June 16, 1938, and left for Parris Island, SC, where he received his basic training, maneuvering in the tropics at Puerto Rico and Cuba. Returning from Cuba he […]