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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 […]

Pfc. Woodrow Barr, son of Mrs. Cora Barr of Keyser, was killed in an attack against the Japanese on Tulagi, Solomon Islands, Aug. 7, 1942. A graduate of Parsons High School, he was employed for four years by the Celanese plant in Cumberland, Md. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on Jan. 13, 1942 […]

Eldorado had an impressive ceremony Wednesday when the first of the Eldorado war dead was returned to the city. Hundreds were present at the depot when the train bearing the body of Pvt. Marion E. Bradley [August 7, 1942], a Marine, arrived in the city. The band played, there were prayers and a eulogy by […]