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Washington, Sept. 10—(AP)—The Navy Department announced today that a previous report listing a Missoula, Mont., Marine, PFC Lester J. Earley, as wounded in action, was in error and that the Leatherneck was safe. His mother, Mrs. Lillian Earley, resides at Orchard Homes, Missoula. Another Missoula Marine, PFC Donald G. Probst, previously reported wounded in action, […]

Graveside service for Marine Cpl. Leon Leander Peavy, 20, ex-Salem resident who died in action on Okinawa [May 20] 1945, will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Belcrest Memorial Park in Salem. He attended Silverton High School and Eastern Oregon College of Education.

Pvt. Gene W. Watmore, 24, and Sgt. [Carl] Basil Pace, 25, Geneva Marines fighting on Iwo Jima, have both been killed in action, relatives have been informed. The Marines attended school together, and later were brothers-in-law. Private Watmore, in service since May, 1944, was killed February 27. He was sent overseas last November. He is […]

These reports are based on prior notification to next of kin. In case of divergence between this list and the last War or Navy Department information sent to the next of kin, notification to the next of kin always is final authority. Minnesota Navy Dead [March 6, 1945]: John W. Parker, Marine Pfc. Mother, Mrs. […]

Sgt. Robert Poarche, Marine from San Anselmo, was killed in action at Iwo Jima on March 3 [1945] was the sad news received by Mrs. Robert Bassett by telegram Tuesday. A former member of the famous Carlson Raiders with four years’ service in the Marines, he was in action at Makin, Midway, Guadalcanal and Bougainville. […]

JUNCTION CITY—Sgt. Wyatt H. Percell, 28, Marine Corps, was killed in action Feb. 20 [1945] on Iwo Jima, according to word coming this week to his wife, Mrs. Luella Dittman Percell, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Percell, Alvadore. Sgt. Percell went into the service in 1941 and went overseas in 1942. He returned […]

The U.S. Navy announces the death [August 2, 1944] of Pvt. Frank E. Pratt, son of Mrs. Rose Strange. Private Pratt was a member of the Marine Corps. No El Paso street address is given.

The remains of one World War II hero from Lebanon County is among the bodies of 1,900 veterans which have been returned from the Pacific area aboard the United States Army transport Dalton Victory, according to an announcement today by the Department of the Army. The veteran is Private First Class Sterling H. Parks, the […]

Lieut. Col. Samuel D. Puller, 38, a Marine, has been killed [July 27, 1944] in the South Pacific, his wife, Mrs. Mildred Puller, who lives at 182 Midway Avenue, Lansdowne, has been notified. Colonel Puller, who has a brother, Lewis, also a colonel in the Marines, was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and St. […]

Mrs. F. Dillon Phemister, 203 South Marion Street, received a telegram from the U.S. Marine Corps stating that Private First Class Edward E. Phemister had been killed in action in the Mariana Islands. Pfc. Phemister’s father is serving in the Pacific Theater with the SeaBees. The telegram is as follows: “Deeply regret to inform you […]