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New Hartford, Sept. 6—(Special)—The only time Marine Platoon Sergeant Fred J. Zwick of Pine Meadow got home for a visit after enlisting in 1939 was in February, 1942, when relatives took this photo. He won’t be home again, they learned recently, because he gave his life [July 1, 1943] in the Marine Raider march on […]

Pfc. Ray F. Costello, 19, is the latest Marine youth to give up his life for his country, according to an official cablegram received here yesterday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Costello, West Jackson Street. The message was dated July 19 and signed by H. Holcomb, Lieut. General, U.S.M.C. Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps […]

A letter from Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, who had commanded the battalion of Marine Raiders to which Pvt. Franklin T. Kelley belonged, gave Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Kelley of 316 N. Evaline St. their first details of their son’s death. The 22-year-old Marine was killed on July [1, 1943] in the Pacific area, after […]

WASHINGTON, July 24.—(AP)—The Navy announced today 51 casualties, including: Texas: John W. Hill, private, Marine, dead [July 1, 1943]. Mother, Mrs. Temple M. Hill, Alpine.

Washington—(AP)—A New Jersey Marine’s death [July 1, 1943] was announced Monday by the Navy in a list of 27 casualties which included 18 dead, four wounded and five missing. The New Jersey Marine was Robert J. Huff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Huff of Millburn.

Washington—(AP)—Theodore P. Meyer of the Marine Corps, son of Mrs. Helen Meyer of Ogema, was listed as dead [July 1, 1943] in a Navy Department casualty list released last night.

A letter from Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schoeppel, 732 North Fourteenth Street, East St. Louis, told them that their son, Pvt. Frederick Schoeppel Jr., 22, who was killed in action last July [1, 1943] while a member of a Marine Raider unit, is believed to be […]

Private Melville M. Burkholder of Red Lodge, a member of the Marine Corps, has been killed in action [July 1, 1943] at an undisclosed theater of war, according to information received Tuesday by Sergeant Gene Pearson, local Marine recruiter. Sergeant Pearson said a telegram to Private Burkholder’s mother, Mrs. Helen L. Burkholder of Red Lodge, […]

WASHINGTON – (AP) – The Navy announced yesterday 33 casualties, including 16 dead, 5 wounded and 12 missing. In addition, the Navy announced that the classification of four additional names has been changed from missing to dead and 26 additional names from prisoner of war to dead, one of which is omitted from the list […]

Mrs. Ida Hough of West Chester, who was in Washington today to attend the Three-Quarter Century Club dinner, has received word of the death of her nephew’s son, Marine Sergeant Orra Eugene [Gilbert], who was killed in action [June 29, 1943] in the Solomons. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Gilbert […]