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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—(AP)—The Navy announced today 71 casualties, including 17 dead, 14 wounded and 40 missing. In addition, six names of naval personnel were included in the list whose status has been changed officially from missing to dead. This brings to 28,120 the total of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties reported to next […]

Pvt. Elmo LeBleu, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pascal LeBleu of Lake Charles, was killed in action [July 9, 1943] while on duty with the U.S. Marines; his family was notified this week. Pvt. LeBleu had been in the Marines since September, 1942. Surviving him besides his parents are five sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Elliott, Mrs. […]

The Navy Department casualty list for the period from Aug. 13 to Aug. 30, issued Tuesday night, list one man from Minneapolis dead and four from Minneapolis and area as missing in action. Among the missing [August 18, 1942] is…Carlyle O. Larson, Marine Corps, son of O. F. Larson, Glenwood.

Berlin, Sept. 2—(Special.)—Private Clifford Allan Lehman, 19-year-old Marine who was graduated from Berlin High School last year, has been killed in action [August 7, 1942], according to a telegram from the War Department received Wednesday. The message was sent to his grandfather, Lucias S. Dean, with whom he had last made his home. There was […]

The Navy today announced that four district men have been killed, eight have been wounded and three are missing in action. The announcement came in the Navy’s 12th casualty list, and covered the period from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. The dead were: Marine Private Louis A. Lovin [August 7, 1942], of Burgettstown.