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Twelve southeast Missouri seamen are serving aboard the U. S.lt; S. West Virginia, a famous old battleship, which went safely thrugh many months of cam*; paigning in the Pacific, then suffered her first combat casualties on the first day of the Okinawa invasion when she was struck by a Japanese suicide pfane. The bomb the plane carried pierced two decks, but failed to explole.Those from this ciistrict abroad the ship were: Aloysius C. Reller-gert, seaman first class; John S. Scheme!, seaman first class; Wm.( W. Schnurbwsch, seaman second class, and Anton T. Wibbenmeyer, seaman second class all off Biehlt; Vallic E. Blanford, seaman first class. Perryville . Melvenn T. McClure, seaman second class, Lithium; Burl E. Billington, seaman first class, Sikeston; Samuel J. Tate, seaman first class, New Madrid; Shelby E. Jones, seaman first class, and Denton E. Medlin, seaman first class both of Parma; Clark Bailey, seaman first class, Parma and Benjamin F. McDowell,seaman first class Fredlerick-town.
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Tue, Oct 02, 1945
Page 10
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