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AUGUSTA – Memorial services for Corporal Stanley P. Peters, who was killed in action [July 25, 1944], were held 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Penney Memorial United Baptist Church. The Rev. Franklin McKerron officiated and a guard of honor was on duty composed of Cpl. G. A. Caillier, Pfc. T. L. Caska and Pfc. […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (AP) – The Navy Department today announced 200 casualties of the naval forces, 9 of them Michigan men. The list included 47 dead, 133 wounded, and 20 missing. The Michigan dead are: Pfc. Stephen Puhalo [July 23, 1944], Marine Corps Reserve; Mrs. Anna Puhalo, mother, Detroit.

Marine Pfc. Thomas H. Priest, 25, son of Thomas Priest, former Twin Falls resident, was killed in action July [23, 1944] during the invasion of Guam, according to word received by friends here. A resident of Meridian, Private Priest lived here two years with his sister, Mrs. Lela Crutchfield, who is now making her home […]

Memorial services for Pfc. [Corwin] Pearl, 21, who was killed in action on Guam July 21, 1944, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Bell Funeral Home, Birmingham, under auspices of Corwin Pearl AMVETS Post No. 36, of Troy Township. He was the son of Mrs. Frances Wisterman, 2210 Vermont, Troy Township, Oakland […]

Rolland Eugene Pryor, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pryor, was born on the home farm near Earlham, Iowa, March 7, 1925. He attended school in Earlham, graduating with the class of 1943. Having enlisted in the U.S. Marines February 27, 1943, he entered the service May 8, the day following his graduation. After […]

Natt A. Piper Jr., private first class in the Marines, has been killed in action [February 20, 1944] in the South Pacific according to word received by his father, Natt Piper, architect and contractor who is on a year’s leave of absence from the office of chief city building inspector. The younger Piper had lived […]

Services for Pfc. Robert A. Peters, 407 N. Main St., Sharonville, are to be conducted at the Sharonville Presbyterian Church at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Burial will be at West Chester, Ohio. Private Peters was killed on Bougainville, November 24, 1943. He was nineteen years old. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Rose Peters, and a sister, […]

WASHINGTON—The Navy reported today that Pfc. Thomas J. Painter, Marine Corps Reserve, a son of Mrs. Stella W. Painter of Dothan, W. Va., has been killed in action [November 20, 1943].

SALEM, Dec. 24 – PFC Eugene W. Malick Pace of the U.S. Marine Corps was killed in action [November 9, 1943] according to a telegram received yesterday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Pace of 517 East Main Street. The telegram was from the U.S. Navy Department but did not give any details as […]

Memorial rites for Pfc. Kenneth C. Peck, 20 years old, Marine Raider Corps, who died [November 4, 1943] of wounds received in action in the South Pacific, will be held at 11 a.m., Sunday, at First Baptist Church, Royal Oak. Pfc. Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Peck, of 22351 Nona, Dearborn, was […]