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Ontonagon—An impressive memorial service was held at the Holy Family Catholic Church on Saturday at which time a tribute of honor was paid Charles Austin Selby who lost his life in action in the performance of his duties and in the services of his country. This memorial Requiem Mass was sponsored by the Holy Family […]

Kenosha, Wis.—(AP)—Pfc. John Eugene Vandenberg, 24, has been killed in action [August 17, 1942] in the Pacific Theater of operations, his mother, Mrs. Elsie Vandenberg, was notified last night. He joined the Marine Corps shortly after Pearl Harbor and was a member of a raiding battalion.

MARSHALLTOWN, IA. – Pvt. Franklin M. Nodland, 19, a Marshalltown youth who enlisted in the Marine Corps last December, has been killed in action [August 17, 1942], according to official word received here. Nodland, a high school graduate, was the son of Frank Nodland of Marshalltown and Mrs. Willard See of Colo, Ia. A brother […]

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, […]

LITTLE ROCK, Iowa – Harris Jonathan Johnson died Aug. 17, 1942, in combat in the Pacific during World War II. His remains were recovered in December 1999. He was born May 17, 1913, in Little Rock to Hans and Stella (Kallemeyn) Johnson. He grew up and attended school in the town, graduating from Little Rock […]

CAMP DOUGLAS (AP) – The body of Pfc. Norman W. Mortensen laid in a mass grave in the South Pacific for nearly six decades. On Saturday, Mortensen’s body was finally returned to rest in Wisconsin, under a shady tall tree on a family burial plot at Camp Douglas. Mortensen, 22, was shot by Japanese forces […]

Kenneth Montgomery of the little Fond du Lac County village of Eden was 21 years old when he enlisted in the Marines on Oct. 16, 1940. He was destined to become the first World War II casualty from Fond du Lac County. Pfc. Montgomery died during a raid on Butaritari Island in the Makin Atoll […]

Word has been received here that Bob Maulding was reported to have been killed in action [August 17, 1942] with the U.S. Marines, supposedly in the Southwest Pacific warfare. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Maulding, Los Angeles. Harold Maulding is the son of Prof. Ben Maulding, at one time bandmaster in […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—(AP)—The Navy’s 11th casualty list yesterday included six Oklahomans as dead or missing from Aug. 13 through Aug 20. The dead and next of kin are: Vernon L. Castle [August 17, 1942], field music, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, mother, Mrs. Lois E. Castle, Jet.

Corporal Mason Yarbrough, 21, of the United States Marine Corps, has been killed in action [August 17, 1942] “in the performance of his duty and in the service of his country,” according to a telegram received Saturday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Yarbrough, farmers living north of Sikeston. Corporal Yarbrough, who joined […]