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First Sergeant Jerome J. Stark, aged 27, of the United States Marine Corps, a brother of Miss Adelaide Stark of 1313 Thirteenth Street and well known in Altoona through frequent visits here before and after he entered the Marine Corps, has been reported as killed in action [September 14, 1942] in a landing at or […]

Mrs. Dell H. Small, Arch Street, is in receipt of word that her nephew, Private First Class James A. Benish of Tarentum has been killed in action [September 14, 1942]. Notification of the young man’s death was given by the Red Cross to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Benish, 935 Ninth Avenue, Tarentum, but […]

WINOOSKI—The first boy from this city to die in action [September 14, 1942] is Ludger Maynard, son of Mrs. Emeline Maynard of 49 Maple St. His death is believed to have occurred in the Solomon Islands. He is survived by his mother and one sister, Sister Madeline Celine.

A fitting and lasting tribute was paid recently to Pfc. Donald Coffey, son of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Coffey, 730 Westmoreland Avenue, one of Lansing’s first Marines to die in action against the Japs, by Jim White, of Detroit, discharged veteran and employee of Michigan Bell Telephone Company. The story of Coffey’s life, as […]

Washington, D.C., Oct. 26—The Navy Department tonight made public its 15th casualty list of the war, listing 408 dead, wounded, and missing, whose next of kin were notified in the period between Oct. 1 and Oct. 15. A preponderant share of the casualties resulted directly from action with the enemy, but in the list are […]

Pvt. Seraphine Smith, 20, has been killed in action [September 8, 1942] while serving with the Marine Corps, officials have informed relatives of the family. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith and had made his home with a brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Smith of Snyder […]

Sgt. Alvin M. Dismukes, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action [August 27, 1942] in the Pacific war zone, his wife, Mrs. Theresa Dismukes of Charleston was notified Saturday. Sgt. Dismukes had served 18 years in the Marines, and had been stationed at the Naval Ordnance plant at South Charleston four different times.

The Navy Department casualty list for the period from Aug. 13 to Aug. 30, issued Tuesday night, list one man from Minneapolis dead and four from Minneapolis and area as missing in action. Among the missing [August 18, 1942] is…Carlyle O. Larson, Marine Corps, son of O. F. Larson, Glenwood.

Cpl. Robert Brooks Pearson, who has been in the U.S. Marine Corps four years, was killed in the Gilbert Islands…August [17, 1942], according to word received by relatives here. Cpl. Pearson’s father, the late Walter Pearson, president of the Cascade Utility Company, was accidentally killed at Oakridge while building the dam there. Robert attended grade […]

TULARE — Cpl. I. B. Earles of Tulare was 18 when he died Aug. 17, 1942. He was in the U.S. Marine Corps. Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Bethel Assembly of God Church, Tulare. Interment will be at Tulare District Cemetery with full military honors. Arrangements are by Hamilton Peers Lorentzen Funeral Service, […]