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Reburial services for Cpl. Byron Kenward Sims, who was killed April 16,1945 on Okinawa, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lamar & Smith Chapel, 800 West Jefferson. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park with military rites. Sims, who lived at 827 South Edgefield, was 18 when he was killed. He […]

Cpl. Sidney J. Scales, 21, was killed somewhere in the Pacific, April 15 [1945], while in action with the Fourth Marines. He was a nephew of Mrs. W. H. Atkinson, 436 Church St., and of George T. Wright, 750 Bonham St. He was the son of Mrs. Jane Wright Scales of San Antonio, formerly of […]

Washington, D.C., June 6—The Office of War Information today made public a casualty list containing the names of Army and Navy men killed, wounded, and missing. The list includes 86 from Chicago and vicinity. The next of kin have been kept informed of any changes in the status of casualties since this report was compiled, […]

George Suttle, of near Lyons, has been advised that this grandson, Cpl. Dale Suttle, Jr., 20, of the Marines, was killed in action on April 2 [1945]. He was with the Sixth Division and it is believed his death occurred during the fighting on Okinawa Island. He was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. […]

WASHINGTON—Casualties released for publication by the War and Navy Departments included 85 from the Detroit area. Next of kin have been notified previously and are kept informed of any change in status. Navy dead [March 12, 1945]: Leonard J. Smith, Pfc., USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F., 11751 Klinger, Hamtramck.

The Navy list of 287 casualties today included 170 dead, 90 wounded and 27 missing. Of these, three Allegheny County men are wounded, also six district men are dead. Dead [March 1, 1945]: Marine Sgt. Michael Strank, Conemaugh.

HARLOWTON, March 30.—(Special)—Memorial services for Cpl. Dumond Stahlecker, who was killed in action on Iwo Jima, Feb. 20 [1945], were conducted at the Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. O. F. Wagner officiating. Members of Wheatland Post No. 15, American Legion, acted as color bearers and D. E. Perkins presented a flag to Cpl. Franklin […]

Missing in action at Iwo Jima since Feb. 19, 1945, Second Lt. Robert C. B. Sherry, USMC, former Coronado High School athlete, has been reported as officially dead. Lieutenant Sherry, who rose from the ranks in combat, had served with Carlson’s Raiders and was at Guadalcanal and Bougainville. The Marine Corps commandant’s office in Washington […]

Sgt. John D. Simonich of the Marine Corps, husband of the former Lois Wertz of Atchison, was killed in an explosion at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif., December 12 [1944]. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Jacqueline Anne, four months. Sgt. Simonich was in the first wave of Marines to hit the Solomons […]

Reburial services for Pfc. George Warren Small, a former employee of Titche-Goettinger Company, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Marlin, Fall County. Burial will be in Marlin with the Rev. J. T. Payne Jr. of Dallas officiating. Born at Odds, Limestone County, March 30, 1925, Small attended Texas […]