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Pfc. Raymond T. Scanlon, 22, of 86-16 Jamaica Ave., was killed in action Nov. 1 [1943]. In the Marine Corps almost two years, he spent about 15 months in the Pacific area. Scanlon fought at Guadalcanal and later contracted malaria. He has two brothers in the Army, William, a sergeant in England, and Thomas, a […]

Washington, Nov. 29—(AP)—The Navy Department in a report today on naval casualties listed as dead [November 1, 1943] Marine Corporal Emmett P. Wiseman, son of Mrs. Anna M. Spedy of Eckerty, Crawford County, Indiana.

Minnesota Navy Dead [November 1, 1943]: Pfc. Walter Kafut, Marine Corps—John Kafut, father, Hibbing.

The remains of Pfc. Bobby Eugene Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Brewer of Carbondale, will arrive in Carbondale Wednesday at 12:26 p.m. It will be taken to the Carbondale Funeral Home, and funeral arrangements will be announced later. Pfc. Brewer, serving with the Marine Corps, was killed in action at Bougainville during the […]

BOUGAINVILLE – (Delayed) – Marine Raiders killed in the initial fighting in the Bougainville invasion were buried with military ceremonies before the first day of struggle was over. First men buried on Puruata Island, just off the Bougainville mainland captured by the Marine Raiders, were Pfc. George A. Hudson Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., and Pvts. […]

Fate has practiced its last irony on a 20-year-old Lubbock Marine Corps corporal who begged so impassionedly more than three years ago that he was allowed to quit school and enlist. Cpl. Thomas R. Stanford is dead. The Army bomber that in a few hours would have deposited him in almost hailing distance of his […]

KEMPTON, (PNS)–Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Eggenberger, of Kempton, were notified Tuesday that their son, Philip, who was overseas with the Marines, was killed in a hunting expedition [September 26, 1943]. The message stated a letter would follow. Their youngest son, he graduated from Kempton High School in 1939. He was prominent in all school […]

Private Merlyn W. Tanner, 20, U.S. Marine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tanner, Dover Plains, reported by War Department to have been killed in automobile accident [September 23, 1943] somewhere in the South Pacific area.

New Madison – The body of Pfc. Ralph Edwin Barnhart, 20, who was killed in action [July 27, 1943] in the South Pacific, has arrived in New Madison for burial. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barnhart, reside here. Services: Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Stutz and Sando Funeral Home. Burial: Greenmound Cemetery.

Yarmouth, April 20 – Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Riverside Cemetery for Cpl. Floyd A. Oliver, USMC, who was killed, July 21, 1943, at New Georgia Island. The Anderson-Mayberry Post, AL, will be in charge of the services, and the Rev. J. Westley Rafter will speak. Corporal Oliver was born […]