MANGUM, CECIL L.

Mrs. Cecil Mangum, 1603 South Fifth Street, received a telegram from the Navy Department Thursday stating that her son, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class, Cecil L. Magnum, has been killed in action [November 3, 1943]. Mangum enlisted in the Navy June, 1942, with the “Avengers of Pearl Harbor” and has been serving with the amphibious forces in the Solomons area for the past year. He was a graduate of Waco High School.