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LONDON—Mrs. Ethel Watson has received word that her son, Cpl. William R. Watson, was among the missing [November 20, 1943] in the battle of Tarawa.

SAUGATUCK, Jan. 3 (Special)—New Year’s Day was one of tragedy for the family of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Woodall of Saugatuck who received a message stating their son, Marine Pfc. Donald Richard, 19, veteran of Guadalcanal and Munda battles, had been killed in action [November 29, 1943]. The telegram which was sent by Lieut. Gen. […]

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ward of Gilman were in Brooklyn recently and had a visit with Harold Keller, a U.S. Marine who was with Mr. and Mrs. Ward’s son James at the time of his death [November 8, 1943] in the South Pacific. In fact, the two boys had been together since entering the […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—(AP)—Jack Herman Huggins, Seaman First Class, son of Mrs. Willie Rema Stewart, Muskogee, was one of two Oklahomans reported wounded today on a Navy casualty list which included one man from the same state killed in action. Carl Ciciel Hill, Seaman First Class, son of Mrs. Ruby Dicie Hill, Okmulgee, was reported wounded […]

The Navy Department has announced 108 casualties of the U.S. naval forces (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard), not heretofore released on Navy Department casualty lists. The list includes the following: Florida: Frank G. Watson, private, U.S. Marine Corps. Dead [November 8, 1943]. Father, Capt. Frank N. Watson, 1911 Everglades Concourse, Miami Beach, Miami.

Washington, Nov. 29—(AP)—The Navy Department in a report today on naval casualties listed as dead [November 1, 1943] Marine Corporal Emmett P. Wiseman, son of Mrs. Anna M. Spedy of Eckerty, Crawford County, Indiana.

SOUTH HAVEN, Feb. 15–Funeral services, followed by reburial in Lakeview Cemetery here, were held Sunday afternoon for Pfc. Eugene John Wheeler, who was 20 years old when he was killed in action on the island of New Georgia, in the Solomon Islands, where he was temporarily buried. The body arrived Friday at 9 p.m. at […]

The body of Marine Sgt. James F. Walsh, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Walsh, 412 Stafford Ave., who was killed in action July 20, 1943, on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, will arrive in Syracuse at 5 p.m. today. Services will be held at the family home at 9 a.m. Thursday and at […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) – The Navy announced Tuesday 63 casualties, including 12 dead, 6 wounded and 45 missing. This brings to 28,178 the total of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties reported to next of kin since December 7, 1941. The grand total includes 9,015 dead, 4,970 wounded, 10,040 missing and 4,153 prisoners […]

CHEBOYGAN, Aug. 17—Floyd William Wahlers, 18-year-old youth who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Detroit last Sept. 17, has been killed in action [July 10, 1943] in the Southwest Pacific.