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Washington, July 21—The Navy Departments has announced 630 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, including 82 dead, 488 wounded and 60 missing, bringing to 136,865 the total casualties since Pearl Harbor. The following 18 Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island men are included: Dead [April 2, 1945]: Platoon Sgt. John E. Hojnacki, Marine […]

Final rites were held at Reilly’s Chapel Saturday afternoon for Marine Corp. Floyd Vaughan Hallmark, 22, who was killed in action Mar. 1, 1945, on Iwo Jima. Rev. W. H. Hedges of Phoenix officiated, and VFW Post No. 549 conducted graveside services in the plot in South Lawn Memorial Park. Survivors are his parents, Mr. […]

Because T/Sgt. Zackery Brown Harrison, 26, killed on Iwo Jima Feb. 24, 1945, offered the supreme sacrifice to maintain the ideals of his country, those who attended his services at 260 E. South Temple Wednesday at 2 p.m. were advised to be humble in recalling Sgt. Harrison’s memory. The speaker, Rev. Robert D. Steele, president […]

WASHINGTON—Casualties released for publication by the War and Navy Departments included 63 from the Detroit area. (Next of kin have been notified previously and are kept informed of any change in status.) Navy Casualties – Dead [February 23, 1945]: Archibald B. Hagemeister, Cpl., USMC, son of Mrs. Pearl M. O’Brien, 1751 Colvert, Wayne.

WASHINGTON__The War and Navy Departments made public today the names of 141 Michigan men who are listed as casualties. Of the Navy casualties, seven are listed as being dead, one wounded, and one missing. The War Department lists 135 Michigan soldiers as being wounded. Navy Casualties – Dead [February 22, 1945]: Howard H. Hudson, Corp., […]

World War II cast its somber shadow over the Smith Center community again this week when the body of Corp. Derrol D. Hubbard, gallant Marine, was brought back home for final services and interment. It was one of the paradoxes of fate that the young man who donned a Marine uniform on February 14, 1943 […]

WASHINGTON – (AP) – Names of 15 Michigan men—four dead and 11 wounded—were were included in a list of 312 naval casualties released today. The list includes 108 dead, 192 wounded and 12 missing. The Michigan dead include: Corp. Clarence Hoffman [July 29, 1944], Marine Corps, Alba.

Final rites for Sgt. Frank P. Harmon, USMC, 25, of 158 Lincoln Ave., who died July 27, 1944, while in service with the U.S. Marines on Guam, will be conducted at St. Patrick’s Church, Seneca Falls, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in St. Columbkille Cemetery, Seneca Falls. Friends may call at the home […]

Washington, Sept. 15.—(AP)—Five Indiana men are dead and three are wounded, the Navy Department announced today. The dead [July 26, 1944]: Marine Corporal Herbert Helpingstine, son of Mrs. Julia Helpingstine of Whiting.

CANTON,–PFC James E. Hart, a gunner in the Marines, was killed in action [July 24, 1944] in the South Pacific, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hart, of Canton, have been notified. Young Hart was a veteran of 3 major campaigns in the South Pacific area and had served several months with a Marine […]