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The death in action [October 9, 1942] on Guadalcanal of Pfc. Donald B. Steinaker, U.S. Marine Corps, was reported last night to his wife, the former Hazel Burton of 124 Berger Avenue, by telegraph from the Navy Department. Steinaker, 19 years old, enlisted in March, 1941. He attended Central High School where he starred in […]

Two Nashville men were reported killed in action and two more, one of them a Negro, were reported either wounded or missing in a casualty list released by the Navy and Marine Corps yesterday for the period between November 1 and November 15, inclusive. The same announcement said one Middle Tennessean was killed and two […]

Raleigh County’s first year in the war has resulted in at least 37 casualties—including men reported killed, wounded or missing. Reported killed: Woodrow R. Thompson, of the U.S. [Marine Corps], the son of Robert L. Thompson, of Bellepoint, reported dead [October 9, 1942] on November 27.

Sergeant Walter J. Burak, son of Anthony Burak, of Crow’s Nest, has been killed in action [October 8, 1942] in the Pacific, the War Department notified his father yesterday. A member of the U.S. Marine Corps for the past two years, he had been fighting with the Marines in Guadalcanal. While a corporal he was […]

Five men from this vicinity are listed on the Navy casualty list released today. The list covers the period from Oct. 16 to Oct. 31, inclusive. Pfc. Julian K. Dobson, U.S. Marine Corps, is also listed as dead [September 28, 1942]. He was the brother of Mrs. Phoebe Watson, formerly of 161 West Street, Leominster.

Members of the family of Major Kenneth D. Bailey, 32, a nephew of Mrs. J. R. Werness, of Welch, have received word that he has been killed in action [September 27, 1942] in the Solomons island campaign. Major Bailey, a United States Marine Corps officer, was an outstanding hero of battles during American occupation of […]

Sergeant Frank O. Boone, 21, of near Bloomsburg, was killed in action [September 15, 1942] while fighting with the United States Marines, in the Solomon Islands, according to a message received yesterday by his father, Paul C. Boone, Sr., a veteran of World War I. Another son of Paul Boone, Sergeant Paul C. Boone, Jr., […]

Sgt. Neil Champoux, 22, U.S. Marine Corps, son of George Champoux of Northampton and nephew of Lieut. And Mrs. Frank L. Champoux, 8 Dalton Avenue, has been killed in action [September 15, 1942] in the Solomon Islands, War Department officials have disclosed. Prayers were offered at St. Mark’s Church where his first cousin, Rev. Timothy […]

F. Russell Whittlesey of New York, grandson and namesake of the late Frank R. Whittlesey, prominent General Electric Company executive of this city, has been killed in action [September 14, 1942] in the Pacific, presumably in the Solomon Islands. He was participating as a private in the U.S. Marine Corps commandos when he met death. […]

Eight Philadelphians were recorded yesterday as killed in action, six as missing and 16 as wounded in a Navy Department list of casualties reported to next of kin between Nov. 16 and 30, inclusive. The department also listed 16 additional from the Philadelphia suburbs and South Jersey as killed, two from those areas as missing […]