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PAUL BASEHOKE DIES OF WOUNDS*Capt. Paul J. Basehore. 37, son of Paul J. Basehore, Lansdowne^ formerly of Gettysburg, and the late EvaHoltzworth Basehore, died on April 8 in a hospital in Manila from wounds receeived in the Philippines, according to a War • Department telegram received by his wife. Capt. Basehore was a member ofCompany B, Paraglider Infantry, and participated in a number of invasions in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Only sixteen members of his company survived the invasion of leyte and all of them were awarded the Bronze Star medal. Capt. Basehore also won the Silver Star medal.His wife and two children, one ofwhom he had never seen, live inLansdowne, where his father is prominent in the real estate business.The dead officer was a nephew of Mrs. Emory Williams, Hanover street, and a cousin of John H. Basehore, local justice of the peace.He left Gettysburg about 25 years ago and is a graduate of Virginia Militar5?- Institute and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Gettysburg Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, May 05, 1945
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