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Nine men from Philadelphia and vicinity died in action against the enemy between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6. The Navy’s official casualty list for that period, announced yesterday, also disclosed four missing from this area and five wounded. Navy and Marine Corps personnel were included in the list. Besides those in the immediate Philadelphia vicinity, […]

The second Wyoming Valley member of the United States Marine Corps to be officially listed as killed in action in the Pacific area was verified in a telegram received yesterday relating that Pvt. John [Jack] Clarke, 22, 171 Main Street, Kingston died [August 10, 1942] in the performance of his duty. The telegram, dispatched from […]

COATESVILLE, Sept. 2—(AP)—George A. Johnson, 18-year-old Marine, is the first serviceman from this Chester County community to give his life in the war. Word was received today of the death in action of three other Pennsylvania Marines. The War Department notified the Coatesville youth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Johnson, that he had been […]

Washington, Oct, 14. (AP) – Two Marines and one Coast Guardsman from Maryland were reported dead and six other men missing today in the Navy’s fourteenth casualty list covering the period from Sept. 22 to Sept. 30. Two officers and three enlisted men were reported wounded. The dead are: Private Andrew E. Flanagan [August 9, […]

The first gold star to be placed on the Hollis honor roll at Farmers Ave. and 109th Road represents the death in action [August 9, 1942] of Pvt. John W. Allan of the Marines. His sister, Mrs. Ethel Insco of 218-56 110th Road, Queens Village, received his citation for bravery in action in the Solomons.

Aug. 9, 1942, at Tulagi Island, So. Pacific, Cpl. Donald R. R. Williamson, U.S. Marine Corps, dear son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williamson; dear brother of Mrs. Fred Bosserdet, Mrs. Lester Duvall, John A. and James F. Williamson. Funeral service Tuesday, 2 p.m., at the Don Graham Funeral Home, 3537 W. Lafayette. In […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (INS)—Marine Private Robert I. Paine, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Paine, of Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for gallantry during an attack on enemy forces [August 7, 1942] on Tulagi, Solomon Islands.

Nine men from Philadelphia and vicinity died in action against the enemy between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6. The Navy’s official casualty list for that period, announced yesterday, also disclosed four missing from this area and five wounded. Navy and Marine Corps personnel were included in the list. Besides those listed in the immediate Philadelphia […]

Somewhere on the high seas floats a destroyer escort bearing the name “U.S.S. Thomas F. Nickel.” The mortal remains of the man this fighting ship was named after will arrive here Tuesday in the wan light of a winter dawn. The man was Pvt. Thomas F. Nickel, wearer of the Silver Star, posthumously. Private Nickel […]

Military rites for Marine Pvt., Kenneth S. Bowers of Nazareth R. D. 3, will be held Saturday in Nazareth by members of the Pvt. Kenneth S. Bowers Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Harold Knecht Post 415, American Legion Nazareth. Pvt. Bowers, who was killed at Tulagi, Aug. 7, 1942, was the first serviceman […]