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Reburial services for Marine Cpl. Claire Sanford Madson, killed in action on Bougainville Dec. 26, 1943, at the age of 22, were to be 2 p.m. today at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The Rev. Frederick L. Von Husen, pastor of First English Lutheran, Grand Rapids, and former Army chaplain in the South Pacific, was to […]

TULARE — Cpl. I. B. Earles of Tulare was 18 when he died Aug. 17, 1942. He was in the U.S. Marine Corps. Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Bethel Assembly of God Church, Tulare. Interment will be at Tulare District Cemetery with full military honors. Arrangements are by Hamilton Peers Lorentzen Funeral Service, […]

Nine men from Philadelphia and vicinity died in action against the enemy between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6. The Navy’s official casualty list for that period, announced yesterday, also disclosed four missing from this area and five wounded. Platoon Sergeant Alexander J. Luke, 26, killed [August 7, 1942], had been a Marine for eight years, […]