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Billingsley Is KilledWc Willi un Billingsley. 21,|tank driver with the loth armored division with Patton’s Third army,was killed m action March 1 in_ (icrmany, according to an official war department telegram received ■ yesterday by his parents , Mr and | Mi Bam Billui ley of nemgow.Pie. Billingsley had lived in Jef-* tersoii muniv lu.» entire life and* was graduated lrom the Lockridge high school with the class of ’41.* Until his enlistment in the army* January JO, 44, he had assisted liLsifgthei an ill# farm. He took his. basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. J and t ill -d a thi-'-d.t furlough home last April before going toCamp (h»rdon, Chi. tor further f training His I. furkae.h hon * j was in June after receiving ins A 1*0 i address. He arrived overseas in i .September in France and was rn-* I gaged in the Cherbourg invasion.[• | His last letter honu* was dated- February 22. Besides his parents.- he is survived by one brother, r (Donald, on the farm at home, and ) 1 kmald's twin sister, Dorothy, a* junior student in nurses training i ■ 1 Y! Hospit li, I)»* Moines.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 16, 1945
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