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Sgt. Jack Connors, Marine Corps, was killed on Iwo Jima February 19 [1945], according to word received by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Verona Connors, N6123 Howard. He was a graduate of North Central High School and went into the Marines in 1939. He is survived by his mother in Nevada, and a brother, Wilson, who is […]

Word has been received that Pfc. Jack R. Chuda of the Marine Corps has been killed in action [July 26, 1944] somewhere in the Pacific. Private Chuda had been in the Marine Corps since May, 1942. At San Diego he was the outstanding member of his training platoon. Assigned to a gun crew aboard the […]

Hastings – Military services for Marine Pfc. George H. Cashmore, 19, of Dowling were held Friday at the Union Cemetery in Maple Grove Township, following services at the Hebble Funeral Home. Military rites were conducted by the Gen. Smedley D. Butler detachment of the Marine Corps League of Battle Creek. Pfc. Cashmore was born Nov. […]

Twenty-four additional Southland men in the service of the United States Navy have been listed as casualties, the Navy Department announced yesterday, including 16 Los Angeles men. They are: Dead [July 22, 1944]: Pfc. Roberto Caldera, U.S.M.C., 2903 E. First St.

The World War II casualty toll in Lansing was increased again Saturday with receipt of word that Pfc. Allen J. Chaffee, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chaffee, 5110 Justice Street, has been killed in action [July 21, 1944] in the Pacific area. A telegram from the commandant of the United States Marine Corps […]

WASHINGTON—(AP)—The Navy Department announced 276 casualties of the U.S. naval forces, including 86 dead, 183 wounded and seven missing. Names of 14 Michigan men, all of the Marine Corps, are listed, including seven dead and seven wounded. The Michigan dead: Pfc. John D. Cuthbertson [July 21, 1944], Detroit.

Navy Chaplain Robert Stump, Jr. will conduct funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Wilson mortuary chapel for Marine S/Sgt. John O. Casdorph, Jr., whose body was returned Saturday from the Pacific. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Casdorph of Kanawha, Two-Mile, Sgt Casdorph was killed July 21, 1944, on the island […]

Names of heroes reported by the War Department as prisoners of war, missing and killed in the service of their country from Aug. 17 to Aug. 23 are included upon this honor roll, with the names of next of kin. Marine Raider Clyde Campbell, son of J. A. Campbell, Columbia, Carbon County, killed in action […]

The Navy list of 276 casualties today included two district men dead and seven wounded. Dead [July 21, 1944]: Marine Corp. Eugene J. Carter, Steubenville, Ohio.

Alabamians who are missing in action have been listed by the War Department as follows: Sgt. Alfred E. Coleman [November 22, 1943], son of Mrs. Alfred H. Coleman, Birmingham.