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HUoridLatviaerndleanCapt.LeeCornwell Killed(*Son Of Former Police Chieft!I!Wounded Xenia SoldierDies; BowersvilletieedtiiutMan Missingru1edkntofdied-e-lrsn-st!iCapt. Franklin Lee Cornwell. 24, son of Lt. Col. O. H. Cornwell,tormer Xenia polroe ohief nowserving in Italy, was killed in France June 19, it was learned here Thursday.Deaths of two other soldiers, one a Xenian and the other the husband of a former Xenian, both stationed overseas, also were reported while another Greene County soldier was listed as missing in action over Germany.Word of Capt. Cornwell's death was received in a telegram from the war department by his wife, Mrs. Anna Fry Cornwell, who is residing in Coshocton, O., for the duration, and was forwarded to Xenia by his mother. Mrs. 0 H Cornwell, now residing in Oxford, O.No details were given and it ie not known if he was killed in action or in an accident. A letter, dated June 17, tw0 days before his death occurred, was received recently by his mother and at that time he had seen action in France.Capt. Cornwell, a graduate of Xenia Central High School, entered service when Company L, Xenia unit of t£ie Ohio National Guard, was Inducted into service in • October, 1940. He had been over- J seas since last October and this spring wras cited by his commanding officer for his attempt to ressoldier when a raft enlisted men col-crossing aCAPT. F. LEE CORNWELL- INAZI USE MAYbihlt;I'DOOM LEANINGHUHEelHf)lt;;lt;PISASpotters Atop MonumentIfDirect Gunfire AtYank Troopscue a missing carrying ninelapsed while plunging the water.Besides hissoldiers into theBy ELEANOR PACKARDROME, July 27.—German troops barricaded the streets of Pisa in preparation for a bloody, house-to-river, ; house defense of the city todayaMif-oparents and widow, he leaves a 2-year-old son, Terrance; two sisters, Mrs. Lari Bar-, tels, ^outh Charleston, and Patricia who is with ner mother in Oxtord, and a brother, Richard, student at Castle Heights Military Academy, Lebanon, Tenn.w'hlle their long-range guns, directed by spotters atop the famous leaning tower, raked American forces massing along the southhank of the Arno River.Working in full view of Amen can patrols on the opposite side of the river, the Nazis threw harbed wire and concrete barriers( across the medieval streets andwlAiCii re,I
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1944
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