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Pineville, W. Va., Oct. 24 – Sergeant Dallas Cook, former Wyoming County youth and brother of Mrs. Chess Stewart of Oceana reported as missing in action last August [18, 1942] while in the service of the U.S. Marines has recently been recommended for the highest commendation from President Roosevelt, according to a letter from Lieutenant […]

Washington, Nov. 27 (U.P.)—The Navy Department announced today casualty list No. 17, covering the period from Nov. 1 to Nov. 15, inclusive. Eight men from Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk were listed as dead. Eight were listed as wounded and two as missing from the same area. Thirty-eight men from the New York area, other […]

Sgt. Neil Champoux, 22, U.S. Marine Corps, son of George Champoux of Northampton and nephew of Lieut. And Mrs. Frank L. Champoux, 8 Dalton Avenue, has been killed in action [September 15, 1942] in the Solomon Islands, War Department officials have disclosed. Prayers were offered at St. Mark’s Church where his first cousin, Rev. Timothy […]

A fitting and lasting tribute was paid recently to Pfc. Donald Coffey, son of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Coffey, 730 Westmoreland Avenue, one of Lansing’s first Marines to die in action against the Japs, by Jim White, of Detroit, discharged veteran and employee of Michigan Bell Telephone Company. The story of Coffey’s life, as […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—(AP)—The Navy’s 11th casualty list yesterday included six Oklahomans as dead or missing from Aug. 13 through Aug 20. The dead and next of kin are: Vernon L. Castle [August 17, 1942], field music, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, mother, Mrs. Lois E. Castle, Jet.

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 […]

U.S. Marine Captain Henry Booth Cain, Jr., 33, formerly of Nashville, died Saturday morning [March 21, 1942] while training his men at Quantico, Va. Word of his death was received by his mother, Mrs. H. B. Cain, at her home in Nashville. Captain Cain had been in excellent health until recently when he suffered an […]