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Yarmouth, April 20 – Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Riverside Cemetery for Cpl. Floyd A. Oliver, USMC, who was killed, July 21, 1943, at New Georgia Island. The Anderson-Mayberry Post, AL, will be in charge of the services, and the Rev. J. Westley Rafter will speak. Corporal Oliver was born […]

The rattling fire of Jap snipers brought Second Lieutenant Philip A. Oldham, of Philadelphia, to his death on a lonely ridge on New Georgia Island on July [9, 1943]—but not before he had blown out of existence with hand grenades a Jap machine gun nest that was the last serious obstacle to Enogai and the […]