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Mrs. F. Harley Jones, now residing in Douglas, who lost her husband and 15-year-old son, Billy, in December, 1943, when the fishing tug Gotham foundered near the Saugatuck breakwater with the loss of five men, received word at 5:30 p.m. on Memorial Day that her eldest son, Pfc. Harold Leon, 21, of the 6th Marine […]

Military committal rites will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Hills of Rest Memorial Park for PFC William Maurice Jaspers, USMCR, who died of his wounds on Okinawa, 15 May 1945. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. Jaspers, 1801 South Menlo Ave. Dr. John V. Madison will officiate at the […]

Washington D.C., May 17—A casualty list containing the names of Army and Navy personnel killed, wounded and missing in action was made public today by the Office of War Information. The list includes 131 from Chicago and vicinity. The next of kin have been kept informed of any change in the status of casualties since […]

IWO JIMA — (Delayed ) — In one day of gallant, bloody fighting as a Third Marine Division platoon leader on the northern end of this battle-scarred island, Marine Staff Sergeant George T. Jennings of Ada, Okla., attacked and took a ridge stubbornly held by deeply-entrenched Japs. Then, on the first day of his command, […]

The Navy lst of 333 casualties today included one Pittsburgh man and one Tarentum man dead, one Munhall man and one Sharpsburg man wounded and another Sharpsburg man missing. Three other district men were reported as dead and one missing. Dead [February 19, 1945]: Marine Lt. George C. Jovanovich, Ambridge.

Washington, Sept. 15—(AP)—The Navy Department today released the names of 312 casualties, including those of three Montana Marines. PFC Philip W. Jones, son of Mrs. J. M. Jones, Butte, killed in action [July 21, 1944].

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—(AP)—The Navy announced today 79 casualties, including: Texas: James W. Johnson, Marine, dead [July 20, 1943]. Mother, Mrs. Blanche Johnson, Gainesville.

A memorial service for Jay Jordan, former popular Hartford high school athlete who was killed a year ago [July 10, 1943] while fighting with the Marines in the Pacific, will be held at the Methodist church in Hartford at 3 o’clock on Sunday, July 9. No previous service for him has been held because Mrs. […]

WASHINGTON, July 26—(AP)—A Navy casualty list issued Monday listed as dead [July 1, 1943] Frederick H. Jurgens, a Marine, son of Mrs. Freida Jurgens, 257 S. Fifth, Saginaw, Mich.

LITTLE ROCK, Iowa – Harris Jonathan Johnson died Aug. 17, 1942, in combat in the Pacific during World War II. His remains were recovered in December 1999. He was born May 17, 1913, in Little Rock to Hans and Stella (Kallemeyn) Johnson. He grew up and attended school in the town, graduating from Little Rock […]