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WASHINGTON – (U.P.) – The Navy has announced 74 additional casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The list included: Wisconsin: Pvt. Daniel A. Wabschall, Marines, dead [July 10, 1943], foster father, Paul Jadin, New Franken.

WASHINGTON – (AP) – The Navy announced yesterday 33 casualties, including 16 dead, 5 wounded and 12 missing. In addition, the Navy announced that the classification of four additional names has been changed from missing to dead and 26 additional names from prisoner of war to dead, one of which is omitted from the list […]

F. Russell Whittlesey of New York, grandson and namesake of the late Frank R. Whittlesey, prominent General Electric Company executive of this city, has been killed in action [September 14, 1942] in the Pacific, presumably in the Solomon Islands. He was participating as a private in the U.S. Marine Corps commandos when he met death. […]

Aug. 9, 1942, at Tulagi Island, So. Pacific, Cpl. Donald R. R. Williamson, U.S. Marine Corps, dear son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williamson; dear brother of Mrs. Fred Bosserdet, Mrs. Lester Duvall, John A. and James F. Williamson. Funeral service Tuesday, 2 p.m., at the Don Graham Funeral Home, 3537 W. Lafayette. In […]