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FALLS CITY, (UP), Sgt. James H. Coupe, 23, U.S. Marine Corps, has been killed in action [November 9, 1943], relatives were informed Tuesday. Coupe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coupe, Denver, was born and reared at Falls City. After graduation from high school he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was stationed at Pearl […]

The body of Forest Rex Swank, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Swank, 404 East Market Street, who was killed in action Nov 9, 1943 in the Bougainville Campaign will arrive at 5:07 o’clock Thursday afternoon on the Southbound Monon. Funeral services for Cpl. Swank will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the […]

BOUGAINVILLE, Jan. 13 (INS)—The graphic story of Marine Private Henry Gurke of Neche, N.D., who sacrificed his life by falling on a Jap hand grenade to protect a buddy was told today. In an early morning hour of Nov. 9 [1943], Privates Gurke and Donald G. Probst, Seattle, Wash., were in a foxhole together on […]

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ward of Gilman were in Brooklyn recently and had a visit with Harold Keller, a U.S. Marine who was with Mr. and Mrs. Ward’s son James at the time of his death [November 8, 1943] in the South Pacific. In fact, the two boys had been together since entering the […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—(AP)—Jack Herman Huggins, Seaman First Class, son of Mrs. Willie Rema Stewart, Muskogee, was one of two Oklahomans reported wounded today on a Navy casualty list which included one man from the same state killed in action. Carl Ciciel Hill, Seaman First Class, son of Mrs. Ruby Dicie Hill, Okmulgee, was reported wounded […]

The Navy Department has announced 108 casualties of the U.S. naval forces (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard), not heretofore released on Navy Department casualty lists. The list includes the following: Florida: Frank G. Watson, private, U.S. Marine Corps. Dead [November 8, 1943]. Father, Capt. Frank N. Watson, 1911 Everglades Concourse, Miami Beach, Miami.

Reburial services were held Saturday, February 12th, at Berwyn, Illinois, for Pfc. Robert E. Hajic, USMCR, a member of Carlson’s Raiders who was killed November 8th, 1943, on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific. Robert, a nephew of Mrs. Carl Mahler, worked for his uncle Carl and made his home with them for several years […]

ALLIANCE, Jan. 13—Sergt. Ignatius J. Gorak of Alliance, announced Wednesday by the Navy Department as missing in action since Nov. 28, entered the Marine Corps Jan. 15, 1942. He was the son of Joseph Gorak, was a graduate of Bergholz (Jefferson County) High School and was a former Republic Steel Co. employee in Canton. Two […]

Funeral services for Marine Pfc. Richard F. Ford, former St. Louisan who was killed in action in the Pacific, will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, 239 North Grand Boulevard. Interment will be in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. Pfc. Ford, 20 years old, lost his life on […]

Lieutenant Walter D. Hatt, B.A., [class of] ’37, has been killed in action [November 5, 1943] in the South Pacific his mother, Mrs. J. W. Thorp of Weatherford, has been notified. Lieutenant Hatt was in a Marine Raider battalion. He enlisted in August, 1942, was commissioned in December, 1942, at Quantico, Va., and went overseas […]