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Four District Area Men Die In Action; Another MissingTwo men from nearby Virginia i notified April 7 that his brother and two from the District have been had been killed March 20. killed in action, and another is miss-1 Mrs. Cox said that her brother-ing. War Department announce- in-law was killed leading troops on menU reveal. Bougainville. His commanding offl-First Lt. Rowland G. Thornton, cer had been killed a few days jr., McKinley High School graduate, i before and Lt. Cox took over thehas been missing in action over Prance since March 20. the War Department has notified his wife, in Schenectady, N. Y.The young B-26 Martin Marauder pilot was within one mission of the 50 required for a furlough.The lieutenant, who has an infant son, WilliamLt. TharnUn.command. He and his men were credited with destroying a large number of Japs before he met death.Staff Sergt. Robert B. Gills, jr., j flight engineer on a Flying Fortress, who has been missing in the Southwest Pacific since May 21, 1943, now is listed as killed in action, the War Department has notified his mother. Mrs. Bertie H. Gills, 101 East Uhler avenue. Alexandria, Va.A veteran of 25 missions over enemy territory, Sergt. Gills was lost in a raid on an enemy base in New Guinea. He would have been 26 years old April 16.Mrs. Gills has received the Purple Heart Medal for her son and soonRowland, attended Wilson Teachers’ expects to receive his Air Medal.College and later the University of Michigan, following his graduation from McKinley. He enlisted in December, 1941, and received his pilot’sSergt. Gills was born in Petersburg, Va., and had lived in Alexandria since he was a year old. He attended George Mason High School,wings and commission in Septem- now known as George Washington ber, 1942, at Columbus. Miss. He High Sclfool. and was an outstand-has been decorated with the Air Medal, with several Oak Leaf Clus-ing athlete there. He was a member of the football and basket ballters and the Distinguished Flying teams. For a number of years be-Cross. fore entering the Army in January.Lt. Thornton’s parents, Mr. and 11942. he was employed as a clerk at Mrs. Rowland G. Thornton, live at the Census Bureau.1439 Ridge place S.E. The family pvt. Harry c. Lunceford, 26. onlv moved to Washington from Rich- son of Mrs. Addie P. Lunceford of mond. Va., in 1936, and the father Warrenton. Va., was killed in Italy is employed at the Navy Yard. Lt. March 6, his mother has been noti-Thomton’s brother, W. S. Thornton, fiecjis in the Navy and stationed at j infantryman. Pvt. Lunceford Pearl Harbor. had been in the Army since last MaySecond Lt, Benjamin Cox, whose and was sent overseas in November, brother, Oscar S. Cox, 1s general He was born near Warrenton. andcounsel for the Foreign Economic Administration, has been killed in action in the Southwest Pacificattended Warrenton High School. He was a clerk in the AP grocery store before entering the service.theater, the War Department an-j Second Lt. William M. Fox, whose nounced today. wife. Mrs. Barbara Fox, lives at 2000Notified of Brother’s Death. Thirty-seventh street S.E.. has been Mr. Cox, who lives at 2922 North; killed in action in the Mediterranean Glebe road, Arlington, Va.. wastarea.
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Washington Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sat, May 06, 1944
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