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Thanks to medical science and deep human love, the cornea of a dying 29-year-old Marine veteran, a former St. Petersburg resident, was transplanted and restored sight to a blind man Christmas morning. Few stories surpass that written to The Times by the late youth’s mother, Mrs. W. A. Bourget, Route Five, Hendersonville, N.C., former residents […]

REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb.—A memorial service for Marine Pfc. Lyle T. Blodgett will be held here Monday. The son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Blodgett of Republican City, he was fatally wounded [June 25, 1945] in the battle of [Okinawa]. His body has been returned to the United States. Burial will be in Golden Gate […]

Pfc. Kenneth E. Bowland, 18, son of Mrs. Dora Bowland, 3023 Rincon Street, was killed in action on Okinawa June 11 [1945] while serving with the Sixth Marine Division, his mother was informed yesterday by the Navy Department. Bowland, who was graduated from Rockport High School in 1943 and joined the Marines the same month, […]

Pfc. Robert J. Banker, 19, was killed in action on Okinawa, June 6 [1945], according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Banker, 1544 ½ Packard Ave. He was born in Richland Center, Wis., and would have been 20 years old on June 29. He attended Berryville, Hansche, Franklin Junior and Washington […]

War and Navy Department casualty lists released yesterday included one man from the Philadelphia area killed in action, 19 wounded and one missing. The number of dead was increased to two with a Navy Department communication received by Mrs. Bella Slosberg, of 426 S. 57th St., stating that her son, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Charles […]

The Navy Department today announced one Floridan dead and one missing, while eight Florida Marines have been wounded. On the War Department’s Florida casualty list were two Army wounded. Navy dead [May 25, 1945]: Sgt. Jack Harvey Braswell, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Braswell, Jacksonville.

The second of two sons of Richard C. Burleigh, Sr., of West Nyack, and Mrs. Alice Miller of LeRoy, Ill., Platoon Sergeant Philip T. Burleigh, 19, has been killed in action according to word received by the father. Sgt. Burleigh, who has been in every action since Bougainville in the South Pacific, was killed in […]

Mrs. C. B. Padgett was informed by the War Department that her son, Pfc. W. G. Bock, Jr., had died from wounds received May 20 [1945] on Okinawa with the 6th Division of the Marines. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Nels P. Highberg.

Pfc. Leonard D. Bartczak, USMC, of 4386 E. 49, killed in action, Apr. 15, 1945, at Okinawa; beloved son of Simon and Rose (deceased), brother of Ted, Clara Jezierski, Florence, Frank, Simon Jr., and Al. Beloved uncle. Funeral Sat., Mar. 26, at 8:30 a.m., from Golubski & Sons Funeral Home, corner E. 65 and Fullerton […]

Roy T. Beard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Beard was born in Memphis, on April 5, 1921. He was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 11, 1945. He was buried in the temporary Marine Cemetery on that island. He had been in the service almost six years, having enlisted when he was […]