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First Lieutenant Alder B. Howe, 24-year-old Marine machine gun officer and son of Mr. and Mrs. Denckla Howe, of 7921 Lincoln Drive, Chestnut Hill, has been killed in action in the Pacific. Eighty-seven other casualties were announced by the Navy Department yesterday, including one Philadelphian missing. The national list contained eight dead, eight wounded and […]

WASHINGTON—(INS)—The Navy today released its casualty list No. 20, covering the period from Dec. 16 to Dec. 31, 1942. The dead, wounded and missing totaled 1,218, the Navy said. Nearest of kin have been notified. The list was subdivided into the following classifications: Dead–418. Wounded—403. Missing—397. The list, the Navy announcement said, brings the total […]

Washington, Dec. 30—(UP)—The Navy Department Wednesday released casualty list No. 19. The list, covering the period Dec. 1 to Dec. 13, inclusive, named 21 Texas dead, 39 wounded and 33 missing. Included were the following: Dead [November 11, 1942]: Joseph H. Harrison, private, first class, Marine Corps Reserve; mother, Mrs. Belle Harrison, Gorman.

CONCORD, Sept. 29—Simple services were conducted at Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, recently, for Pfc. George Heyliger, U.S. Marine Corps hero, who was killed at Guadalcanal, Oct. 9, 1942. Rev. John Elmo Wallace, minister of Trinitarian Congregational Church, conducted the service which was arranged by his mother, Mrs. Augusta Foss, 9 Thoreau Street and his sister, […]

Washington, Nov. 27 (UP) – 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 […]

Sergeant Daniel Wayne Hudspeth, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Oscar Hudspeth, of Ashland, has been killed in action [September 14, 1942], according to announcement by the War Department. Sgt. Hudspeth was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, having volunteered for service with that organization on September 3, 1940. All reports indicate that he […]

HAMPTON–Mrs. Else Hansen has received a telegram from the War Department Wednesday stating that her son, Evan J. Hansen, 20, had been killed in action [August 7, 1942] while serving with the Marines. Hansen had been a member of the Marine Corps about two years. Born in Coulter, Evan came to Hampton as a high […]

Pvt. Frank Huber, 19, USMC, Steel City, Bethlehem R. 4, who was killed Aug. 7, 1942, at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, will be reburied Saturday afternoon in Union Cemetery, Hellertown, with rites in charge of Bethlehem Detachment, Marine Corps League. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Charles DeBodo at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. […]

Funeral services for Sergeant Fred L. Hinkle, 22 of Pikeville, formerly of Fort Gay, who was killed…August [7], 1942, in the Solomon Islands were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Hinkle Cemetery on Mill Creek near Fort Gay. The Fort Gay Vancouver Post of the American Legion was in charge of military rites. Sergeant […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—(AP)—The Navy Department announced today its casualty list No. 12, which included the names of 18 North Carolinians—seven dead, 10 wounded and one missing. The list covers the period August 31-September 6 inclusive. The dead and next of kin: Pfc. Arthur D. Hampton, USMC [August 7, 1942], mother, Mrs. D. S. Hampton, Rockwell.