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Large Number Area Service Are On Unofficial CasualtyMenListcorrections or addition* to thi* Hit. They may be yent this office at anv time Some of the addresses giten for the men listed are ofrelatives in this section, who received notice of the mishap. ^BLUEFIELDERKILLEDList Includes Men Killed and Wounded While in Service, Missing in Action, Stricken III and War PrisonersBy MARIONGOOCHThe name of Bernard Ramon Wimmer of Olenwood Park was the only Bluefielder listed in a recent Issue of Life magazine, as killed in action.Although Wimmer is the onlyBluefielder listed, thirty other menfrom the Bluefieid area were listedas having lost their lives in actualcombat with the enemy. Manyothers from this area have lost their live* whUe in the service, although they were not in actual combat. The list in the magazine contains only those killed in action with the enemy, those who died of wounds and those who died in enemy prison camps It does not Include men who died of non-combat accidents or disease, either abroad or in the continental United States. Nor does it include those listed as missing Ln action.Others who were listed from this territory are: Walter P. Beavers, Jr., of Bishop. Va.; Edd Mutter of Coebum* Va ; George T. Gentry of Harman. Va.; Paul C. Thompson of North Tazewell. Va.; Ravmond Bare of Pocahontas. Va.; Maynard J. Stallarp of Pound. Va.; Ta’made H. Elswickof Raven VaCharlas W. Rob-Cecil Stafford Dennis. Princeton; Guy Alton Duncan. Welch. George W. Eddy. Jr., Pnnecton; 1 John B. Epperson. Jr.. Bluefieid. David Everett Rerguson, Bei-| WUMl _I Ale* Oall. Berwind; . Finley Howard Oanoe Rich Creeks. Va.; George T. Oentry. Harman. Va.; Brack Woodrow Goode. Plneville; Dave Griffith. Bluefieid college.Hubert M Hayter, Elbert; William Huntington Hilsheimer,Princeton; Raymond Burge Hoke, Jr.. Gary; David Hurt. Tazewell, i Va.; James Garfield Htut. Blue-! field; Hale D. Hyer. Welch.| Charles Jewell, Buchanancounty, Va.; J. W. Jones, Jr., North Tazewell. Va.Philip H. Killey. Vivian; Robert Kinder, Grassy Branch; Henry King. Huffviile. Va ; Wilson King, Sandllck; Charles Kin-zie. Bluefieid; Willard W. Kiser,Bluefieid. Va.Lawrence M Lafon. Walker-vilie; Charles H. Larimer. Tazewell. Va.; William Porter Liddle. Jr.. Bluefieid; Valmar Looney.Stiltner's Creek. Va.Joseph Maiolo, Norton. Va.; Clarence W. Mills. Rock; Harold Lerov McKinney. Rock; Nathan Lorain McKenney. Rock; Hobart McMillan. Welch.Nathaniel Napper, Wyco; Clarence R. Neely, Lerona; Herman E Newberry Raven. Va.John W. OBrien. Anawalt.Bob Joe Parsell, McComas;Thomas Monroe Pearman. Shaw-esvtlle, Va.; A. Roland Porterfield, Bland. Va.; Edward Max PricePrinceton. _ _Sam S. Revis Welch; George T. Richman. Hopewell. Va.; Pau, Ring, War; Lawrence Roberts. Panther; Richard Robinson. Kyle; Ellis R. Rockard, Asco: MosesRucker, Coalwood; William Rutherford. Jr.. Davy.John M. Skeen. Bluefieid; PhilipR. Sleadd, Jr., Bluefled; Reese B. Smith, Patterson; Charles Ray Snyder. Welch; Maynard J flta1-• rn ______1 tf- • A UilllmtVIVa.: Robert L Johnson. Blue-ftelri, Va.; William Kell. Bluefieid;Wiiford M. King; RiU KingdomBluefieid: David Kingrea Lor ton s Lick. William Henrv Kitts. Bluefieid; Joseph W. Klobos, Thorpe; William D. Lilly. Flat Top; Warren Looney, Buchanan county. Virginia; Aubrey long, Bluefieid; H. Douglas Long. Bluefieid; Dewey Ishmael Lusk, Grumpier; Roby C. Lyle. Raysal; Leonard Edward Lyons. Bluefieid,Charles Leonard Mabry, Kimball; James G. Main. Bluefieid; William H. Marshall. Wayne; Edward E. Massey. Shrewsbury; C. F. Mercer. Jr, Bluefieid. Va.; John W. Mobley. Big Creek; Ralph B. Molina. Beckley; Cecil Moore, Jr., Switchback; Joseph Moore. McDowell; Paul E. Morris, Bluefieid; Luther D. Mullens. Welch; Paul Myles, Bluefieid; Harry McCall. Bluefieid: William A. McClung, Bluefieid; Clifford W. McPeak. Superior; Emory Thomas Old. Bluefieid; Fred Osendott. Jr Kermit; Jack Parrish, Jr., Welch; Aubrey Powers Coebum. V*.George W. Quinn, Prater-Claude J. Ramey. Vivian; John Rendulick. Osage; Roby R. Rum-ley, Princeton; James N. Sammons, Webb; Curtis Saimders. Bluewell; Edgar Shepherd. Avondale; Richard F. Shumate. Bluefieid; Calvin E. Sizemore. Bud. Wyoming county; Eugene W. Snyder. Lost Creek; William R. Steele. Bluefieid; George Styron, Jr.- Red Jacket; James C. Tonev, Oak Hill; Wallace M. Tracy. Keg-ley; Burgess W. Vance, Wayne; Charlie W. Walk, Bluefieid; Boyd M. Walker. Egeria: Malcolm Walters. Welch: Robert K. Whit acre, Paw Paw; James H. White, Lash-meet; Claude A. Witt, Bluefieid; Russell Wood. Welch; Harold Wright. Rock; John Yorke. Jr.. Bartley.Prisoners Of WarThe list of the area men who(Continued from Pate One,to accomplish with naval VMM under the cover of darkness whs* thev had failed entirely to do by heavv air sttack on the day the armv landed on Rendova At that, time they lost. 101 planes of a force estimated at more than 11 m What damage thev may have suffered in the sea skirmish was notreported here.Short ( ommunique \All the communique said was-‘‘On July 3 (Saturday Solomon® time) during the night, a Japanese force consisting of three light cruisers and four destroyers attempted to shell U. S positionson Rendovs island. U. S. surface craft replied to the bombardment and the enemv ships retired im short order. No further detail* have been received.'Possibly indicating that the drain on Japanese air power is raising difficult problems for the enemv was s report from Maioja General Clair L. Chennault, com® manding American air forces inChina, that Japanese planes madeno raids on unoccupied China in the week of June 26. Gen Chennault commented, it is quite possible the Japs don't want to lo*Kany more planes in China for r while because they are so badly needed elsewhere.)Cite GuadalcanalThe sea action was reminiscent of that which marked the firsk hours of the American invasioflr of Guadalcanal and its indicated outcome suggested that not againwould allied commanders becaught ln the south Pacific as thev were at that time. Immediately after American troops had^ landed on Guadalcanal, a lighFJananes* force Drobablv of about
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jul 04, 1943
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