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WASHINGTON—(AP)—The Navy Department today disclosed the names of 129 casualties. The following Michigan men, all of whom were Marines, have been listed as dead: Pfc. Benjamin D. Ferguson [November 9, 1943], Holly.

Funeral services for Marine Pfc. Richard F. Ford, former St. Louisan who was killed in action in the Pacific, will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, 239 North Grand Boulevard. Interment will be in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. Pfc. Ford, 20 years old, lost his life on […]

Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at 10 a.m. Friday at the Church of the Epiphany for Cpl. Frank Joseph Fizur, Jr., who was killed July 20, 1943, at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, while serving with the Fourth Marine Raider Battalion. Corporal Fizur is survived by his parents, Frank, Sr., and Josephine, of 2337 S. […]

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 P.M. tomorrow at the Birnbaum Funeral Home for Marine Pfc. Martin Baum, who was killed July 9, 1943, on Enogai Point, New Georgia, in the Solomon Islands. Rabbi Samuel Yalow will officiate. Burial will be in Jamesville Gate Cemetery. Military rites will be conducted by members of Onondaga […]

Pvt. Richard C. Farrar, brother of Mrs. Gladys Bullinger, 4641 Lake Park Avenue, who was killed Dec. 4 [1942] on Guadalcanal, was a member of Carlson’s Raiders, which has received a blanket citation from Maj. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift of the Marines for offensive operations against the Japanese. They were the second unit to receive […]

Two Nashville men were reported killed in action and two more, one of them a Negro, were reported either wounded or missing in a casualty list released by the Navy and Marine Corps yesterday for the period between November 1 and November 15, inclusive. The same announcement said one Middle Tennessean was killed and two […]

Washington, Oct, 14. (AP) – Two Marines and one Coast Guardsman from Maryland were reported dead and six other men missing today in the Navy’s fourteenth casualty list covering the period from Sept. 22 to Sept. 30. Two officers and three enlisted men were reported wounded. The dead are: Private Andrew E. Flanagan [August 9, […]