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A total of 180 Californians—dead, wounded and missing—was included in the Navy’s casualty list No. 20 issued yesterday. Of this total, 88 were from the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Southland—33 dead, 24 wounded and 31 missing. The list covers the period from last Dec. 16 to Dec. 31. It brings the total casualties […]

WINOOSKI—The first boy from this city to die in action [September 14, 1942] is Ludger Maynard, son of Mrs. Emeline Maynard of 49 Maple St. His death is believed to have occurred in the Solomon Islands. He is survived by his mother and one sister, Sister Madeline Celine.

CAMP DOUGLAS (AP) – The body of Pfc. Norman W. Mortensen laid in a mass grave in the South Pacific for nearly six decades. On Saturday, Mortensen’s body was finally returned to rest in Wisconsin, under a shady tall tree on a family burial plot at Camp Douglas. Mortensen, 22, was shot by Japanese forces […]

Kenneth Montgomery of the little Fond du Lac County village of Eden was 21 years old when he enlisted in the Marines on Oct. 16, 1940. He was destined to become the first World War II casualty from Fond du Lac County. Pfc. Montgomery died during a raid on Butaritari Island in the Makin Atoll […]

Word has been received here that Bob Maulding was reported to have been killed in action [August 17, 1942] with the U.S. Marines, supposedly in the Southwest Pacific warfare. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Maulding, Los Angeles. Harold Maulding is the son of Prof. Ben Maulding, at one time bandmaster in […]

Nine men from Philadelphia and vicinity died in action against the enemy between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6. The Navy’s official casualty list for that period, announced yesterday, also disclosed four missing from this area and five wounded. Navy and Marine Corps personnel were included in the list. Besides those in the immediate Philadelphia vicinity, […]

Mrs. Audrey Miller, 20-year-old bride of Marine Corp. Claude W. Miller, refused today to believe that her 21-year-old husband is dead, although the Navy Department listed him as killed in action [August 7, 1942] in the Pacific. Why should she believe it? Hasn’t she his last letter received two months ago at their home at […]