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Thirty-five Kentuckians were reported dead, wounded or missing in the Navy Department’s nineteenth casualty list, released last night. The list revealed the United States Navy suffered 1,586 casualties from December 1 to December 15. Missing [November 8, 1942]: Corp. Samuel O. Preston, Jr., Marine Corps, brother of Douglas M. Preston, 2614 W. Chestnut, Louisville.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UP)—Private First Class William E. Pallesen, a U.S. Marine from Utah, is reported missing [August 18, 1942] in Navy Department casualty list No. 11, issued here today. Pvt. Pallesen is a son of Mrs. Dora Pallesen, Manila, Utah. The casualty list covers the period from Aug. 13 to Aug. 30, 1942.

Cpl. Robert Brooks Pearson, who has been in the U.S. Marine Corps four years, was killed in the Gilbert Islands…August [17, 1942], according to word received by relatives here. Cpl. Pearson’s father, the late Walter Pearson, president of the Cascade Utility Company, was accidentally killed at Oakridge while building the dam there. Robert attended grade […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (INS)—Marine Private Robert I. Paine, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Paine, of Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for gallantry during an attack on enemy forces [August 7, 1942] on Tulagi, Solomon Islands.