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Funeral services for Marine Corps Sergeant William Monroe Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Smith of Maricopa, who was killed on Okinawa Island, May 20, 1945, will be held in the Bonham Brothers Mortuary Chapel in San Diego at 1 p.m. April 5. A military burial will be accorded the deceased In Fort […]

Stuttgart—Funeral services for Corporal Lawrence Edwin Selig, USMC, age 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Selig, who was killed in action on Okinawa May 20, 1945, were held at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, April 9, at Holy Rosary Church. The pastor, the Rev. J. G. Evans, officiated at the Requiem High Mass and […]

Pfc. Joseph R. Samuelsen of 29 Knight Court was killed in action on Okinawa May 20 [1945], according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Veronica Dunn Samuelsen. He was 20. Private Samuelsen took part also in battles on Bougainville, Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific. Born in Brooklyn, he was a graduate of Public […]

Names of 67 more Southlanders appeared on casualty lists released yesterday by the War and Navy departments. Of the total, 24 are dead, 3 missing and 40 wounded. They are: Navy Dead [May 23, 1945]: Marine Pfc. Glenn Sherlie Stout, 216 W. Norwood Place, Wilmar.

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 [May 20, 1945]: Overby J. Stoskopf, Marine Cpl. Parents, Mr. […]

Corp. Robert S. Sorenson, age 19, killed in action May 19, 1945 on Okinawa while serving his country with the 6th Marine Division. He was born in Racine Aug. 30, 1925. Corp. Sorenson was attending Washington Park High School at the time he enlisted in the Marines. Sept. 14, 1942. He received his boot training […]

Funeral services for Sgt. John Perry Stewart of Phoenix, who was killed in action on Okinawa, May 10, 1945, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday from Memory Chapel of A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary. The Rev. J. W. Hadley, pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, will officiate. Services will be in charge […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30 – Pfc. Jack Schafale, USMCR, son of Mrs. Murriel L. Schafale of Marion, was killed in action [May 9, 1945], according to the list of Illinois men killed in action made public today by the Navy Department.

Washington, May 28—The Navy Department has announced 527 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, including 87 dead, 373 wounded and 67 missing, bringing to 111,237 the total casualties since Pearl Harbor. The following Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island men are included: Dead [April 27, 1945]: 2d Lt. John Frederick Sudro, Marine—Parents, Mr. […]

Memorial Services will be conducted at 10 o’clock Saturday at St. Edmund’s Church for Pfc. Thomas John Smith of the U.S. Marine Corps, who was killed on April 16 [1945] in Okinawa. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Smith of 118 South Scoville and besides his parents, leaves a sister, Frances […]