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CANAAN, Me., Aug. 3 (AP)—Two persons were killed and one critically injured early today [August 3, 1946] when their automobile crashed into a cement bridge over a small stream on the main street here. The dead were Mrs. Louise Flynn, 19, of Pittsfield, and Lawrence M. Chisholm, 24, of Newport. Mrs. Flynn’s husband, Richard, 21, […]

Seventeen district men are listed as dead and 58 others are reported wounded by the Army and Navy Departments in today’s casualty list. The next of kin have been notified. Their names and addresses follow: Marines—Dead [June 20, 1945]: Paul D. Curtin, Pfc., New Castle.

Pfc. [Daryl] Dean Campbell, 22-year-old, twice-wounded Marine, was killed in action June 20 [1945] on Okinawa, his mother learned yesterday. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, 3 Burlington Ave., the young Marine had received shrapnel wounds last July 21 on Guam and again in May on Okinawa. He entered the Marine Corps in October, 1942, and […]

Requiem mass was said Thursday morning at San Xavier Mission for two brothers, Pfc. Stephen and Pfc. Raymond Carrillo, who were killed in action on Okinawa within three days of each other. Burial took place in San Xavier Cemetery. Stephen Carrillo, a Marine, died June 12, 1945, during the assault on Naha. His older brother, […]

Lt. William H. Carlson of Cohoes, Methodist preacher who turned down a chaplaincy to become what war correspondents called one of the “fightingest men” in the Marine Corps, was killed June 5 [1945] on Okinawa. Carlson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Iver Carlson of 5 Bridge Avenue, Cohoes, caught the attention of war correspondents when […]

These reports are based on prior notification to next of kin. In case of divergence between this list and the last War or Navy Department information sent to the next of kin, notification to the next of kin always is final authority. South Dakota Navy Dead [May 21, 1945]: George H. Carr, Maine Pfc. Father, […]

The Office of War Information listed the names of 11 Arizonians on the official casualty roll released for today, the names of two Tusconians are included among them. Reported dead by the Navy [was]: Pfc. George Lorenzo Crosby, USMCR [May 20, 1945], son of Mrs. Florence G. Crosby, Phoenix.

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Roy Clayton Chick, Marine corporal, who was killed on Okinawa on April 17, 1945. He was born March 9, 1924 in Coryell County, and the family moved to Woodson in 1925. He attended schools there, was an all-star football player before his graduation in […]

The members of the class sympathize deeply with Sam Conant in the loss of his son, Judson Bemis Conant, who was killed in action on Okinawa on April 15 [1945]. He had entered the service when he completed Taft in June, 1943, and trained as a Marine Raider. He had planned to go to Princeton […]

Casualty lists released yesterday by the War and Navy Departments included the names of 96 Southern California officers and enlisted men. Of that number the Navy listed 14 dead and 2 wounded; the Army 15 dead, 47 wounded, 9 missing in action and 9 reported German prisoners of war. The lists follow: Navy Dead [April […]