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Cpl. Lyle E. Wagaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis E. Wagaman, residing four miles north of Moscow, was killed in action at Iwo Jima on Feb. 22 [1945], according to a telegram received by the parents Wednesday night. Cpl. Wagaman was a member of 5th United States Marine Corps Division in the now historic […]

Corporal Melvin Ralph White, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hanford White of Eaton, was killed [July 28, 1944] in the line of duty during the battle for Guam, his parents learned Thursday. Cpl. White served with a U.S. Marine Corps unit in the Pacific area, and was in the battle for Saipan and later […]

The body of Pfc. Donald L. Wellbaum, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wellbaum, of 513 South Twenty-First Street, will arrive in Decatur this evening from Guam. Pfc. Wellbaum was killed by a Japanese machine gun burst on Guam July 28, 1944. Funeral services, including full military honors by the Veterans of Foreign […]

Twenty-four additional Southland men in the service of the United States Navy have been listed as casualties, the Navy Department announced yesterday, including 16 Los Angeles men. They are: Dead [July 26, 1944]: Pfc. William T. Wattenbarger, U.S.M.C., Glendale.

Pfc. Robert C. Wallis, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wallis, Bonneville Park, was killed in action [July 21, 1944] in the Pacific. He was a member of the Fourth Marine [Regiment] and a veteran of Bougainville action. He was born May 13, 1926 in Paris, Idaho. He attended Wasatch High in Heber, […]

Funeral services for Pfc. Alvin F. Wachlin, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Wachlin, Freeport, Route 3, will be held Thursday afternoon, Jan. 20, at 1:30 o’clock at the Eichmeier & Becker Funeral Home. Rev. Edwin A. Arends, pastor of St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church will officiate. The Freeport Allied Veterans Association […]

Marine Ray Wilson, 21, son of Mrs. Retta H. Chatwin, Utahn, Duchesne County, is reported killed in action {July 21, 1944]. Further details were not disclosed. He is survived by his mother and three brothers, Fred Wilson, Army; Lloyd Wilson, Merchant Marine, and Orin Wilson, Camp Roberts, Calif.

Another hero of World War II will come home Sunday when the remains of the late Sgt. Herbert F. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Williams, of Collins, will arrive in Osceola at 1:52 p.m. on the Frisco. The body will be taken to the Goodrich Funeral Home where funeral arrangements will be […]

Platoon Sgt. Leonard E. Williams, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Williams, and husband of Mrs. Ettie Gollott Williams, enlisted in the Marine Corps June 16, 1938, and left for Parris Island, SC, where he received his basic training, maneuvering in the tropics at Puerto Rico and Cuba. Returning from Cuba he […]

Pfc. Charles D. Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walker of Powellton, has been missing in action since last Nov. 20 [1943], the War Department recently informed his parents. Pfc. Walker was serving in the Gilbert Islands. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942 and had been in active combat duty several months.