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Services will be held for Joseph and William Auman, brothers killed in war action in the Pacific, from the chapel at 7605 S. Halsted St. to St. Leo’s Church at 11 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Joseph, a Marine private and member of Carlson’s Raiders, was 20 when killed on Guadalcanal […]

A total of 180 Californians—dead, wounded and missing—was included in the Navy’s casualty list No. 20 issued yesterday. Of this total, 88 were from the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Southland—33 dead, 24 wounded and 31 missing. The list covers the period from last Dec. 16 to Dec. 31. It brings the total casualties […]

Washington, Dec. 30—(UP)—The Navy Department Wednesday released casualty list No. 19. The list, covering the period Dec. 1 to Dec. 13, inclusive, named 21 Texas dead, 39 wounded and 33 missing. Included were the following: Dead [November 11, 1942]: Joseph H. Harrison, private, first class, Marine Corps Reserve; mother, Mrs. Belle Harrison, Gorman.

Owen Barber, 20, a 1940 graduate of Moweaqua High School, has been killed in action [November 11, 1942] with the U.S. Marines, according to a message received by his father, A. M. Barber, living north of Pana. The message, received from Washington Monday, gave no details except to state that “temporary interment” had been made […]

Memorial services for Pvt. Laurence P. Spillan, Jr., who was killed in action with the Marines November 11 [1942] in the South Pacific, will be held at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning in St. Leo’s Church, 78th St. and Emerald Ave. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Spillan, Sr., 408 Winneconna Pkwy. […]

WINNEMUCCA, March 5 (Special)—Reported killed in action [November 11, 1942] in the Solomon Islands is Corpl. John D. Bennett of the United States Raider Marines. Corporal Bennett, who enlisted in the Marine Corps several months before Pearl Harbor, worked at the Tungsten mine and Getchell mine for several years.

Thirty-five Kentuckians were reported dead, wounded or missing in the Navy Department’s nineteenth casualty list, released last night. The list revealed the United States Navy suffered 1,586 casualties from December 1 to December 15. Missing [November 8, 1942]: Corp. Samuel O. Preston, Jr., Marine Corps, brother of Douglas M. Preston, 2614 W. Chestnut, Louisville.

Washington, Jan. 13—Among Marines designated to receive the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, for “extraordinary heroism” in an attack on Makin Island in the Pacific last August was Pvt. Donald R. Roberton, missing in action [August 18, 1942], son of Mrs. Juanita Roberton, 916 Main Street, Franklin, La. Historian’s note: […]

Richard E. Davis, 20, West High graduate, who enlisted in the Marines the day after Pearl Harbor and was stationed “somewhere in the Pacific,” is missing in action [August 18, 1942]. Lieutenant General T. Holcomb, commandant of the United States Marines at Washington, sent word here today. Davis, whose mother died when he was seven, […]

Nineteen Navy and Marine Corps officers and men from the Los Angeles area were officially reported killed, wounded or missing in action in the Navy’s latest casualty list, issued yesterday. The list covers the period between Aug. 13 and 30. Of this number, four were listed as dead, one wounded and 14 missing. Missing [August […]