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Section ItPages 1 to 12EVEN] NGELEGI?/imrtsemenfSportEstablished Jan. 15, 3836ALTON, ILL., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1967Price 10cMember Associated Presstr+V ietnamDeathsBy JIM KULPare mountingM to dateTelegraph Staff WriterDeaths of Telegraph area servicemen in the Vietnam warbut the casualties are .still far behind World War II, a conflict which took a total of 401) livesHURRY! JUST A FEW DAYS LEFT!!in this region.ALCOA ALUMINUMSIDINGKEG. SCCOO$85.00 5Jll 100 SQ. FT.INSTALLED!.024 thick with Bak-R-Board insulation.No money down. -year 5% financing.By the end of World War II, in 1945, there were 11,858,49 men under arms, area losses included 368 in the Army, 69 in the Navy, 42 in the Marines, five in the Merchant Marineand three in the Coast Guard.DavidDrahfGENERA I. CONTR ACTIN GPhone 485-1070, 482-8471There also was a Royal A i r Force officer, (’apt. Robert Ad-kison, whose wife’s parents, and Mrs. Robert B. Rawlings, lived at 526 Alby St., and two Rangers, among the area losses.irbruant ’CombinationSpecialNovember Special!100,000 BTUI24,000 BTUGAS FURNACEw ith all ductsand controlsAIRCONDITIONINGWITH ALECONTROLS$Installed46900I$InstalledSAVE $50.00Get BOTH UNITS for ONLy888O 9UCRTIHAWHY PAYmgBehind\Y \\ossesStatistics maintained bythe Telegraph of World War II casualties show that area men died in most of the famous battles of the period, including Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, the invasionof Normandy, North Africa and Pearl llarhor.There were two area deaths in the latter battle, the “infamous” 1941 attack by the Japanese which kicked off America’s participation in World War II. The two men killed in action then were Robert E. Win-dle, a Marine, of Jerseyville, and Lawrence McCollum, a Navy man, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse McCollum, livedin Ilettick.One area casualty was the| Rev. Terrance Brady, an Army chaplain who was killed in action in the South Pacific. Father Brady was a former assistant pastor of St. Francis Xavier inJerseyville.There w'ere some poignant,non-battle deaths, too. For instance, (’apt. Virgil E. Ilad-cliffe, whose parents were formerly from Shipman, was killed in a plane crash in Florida after he had flown 52 missionsover Axis territority and survived.Another was Alfred Fred Dean, who died in a Colorado auto crash after being wounded on At tu Island.The rosier of battlefields represented by area deathsincludes 73 in France, 57 in Germany, 32 in Italy, 10 in Belgium, six in North Africa, six in Holland, five in England, three in Normandy and one in Sicily.In South Pacific waters, six area men were killed at Iwo lima, four in New Guinea, three n Japan, three in Burma, 27n the Philippines (almost 50 )er cent lost in the Battle for \eyte), two at Corregidor, three ver Japan, three in Burma, wo in China, one at Tarawa,one at Guam, one at Guadalcanal, one at Bougainville and two in the Solomons themselves.There were several deaths ofarea men in prisoner of war camps. Arnold Oldenettel, son of former Assessor and Mrs. Ed ward Oldenettel of Bunker Hill, died in a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines. Carroll F. Spindler, whose mother formerly lived m East Alton and Edwardsville, also died in a Japanese prison camp.One area man was Jacob B. Schneider, whose parents were Matthew and Mary Ennis Schneider of East Alton. He was killed when he tried to escape from a orison formation.Two area men were killed inone of the most famous sea battles of World War II, the first naval engagement between United States and .Japanese forces which involved aircraft exclusively. They were Kenneth o Edwards, whose parentswere from Virden, and J o h nHarshbarger, both of whom died when their ship, t h e aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington. was sunker, whose wife lived in Jersey ville, was killed in action aboardr ma submarine in the South (’hi na Sea.many of the battlefields jare the young men of today U of World War il were no I Vietnam, though in far greateasier to pronounce, b u tOthers had less glamorousjobs, hut performed them well,such as William L. Rakestraw,a Third Army ambulance driver who died in the line of duty in France, and Joseph Sen i, I whose parents lived in W o o d River, a Navy coxswain who was lost at sea while doing his!they became familiar place names in history.Area men fought and d i e d with the same valor thener numbers. The 490 area servasicemen, Army, Navy, Marines and civilian, became part of the 405,399 Americans who lost their lives in World War If.Open TonightDEPARTMENTS'til 9a prison Another, Henry Lee Claude Smith, died of malaria in aJapanese POW camp. One man, Charles Kirhach, was reported missing in Germany, then was said to be prisoner of war and then reported dead.I —Unit 8 Board AcceptsFor CafeteriaquipmentThe European Theater, ofcourse, had the largest number of area servicemen’s deaths, about 204. About 124 men died in the Pacific Theater. Three lost their lives in the American Theater — two in Attu andone in Panama.There were some freak deaths among the servicemen, too. One was Lt. John Johnson, son of Congressman Calvin Johnson of Belleville, who was killed when he parachuted from his spinning fighter plane and was struck by the un-controlled aircraft. It happened near Shelbyville, Tenn.Some men had more than ordinary jobs in the last world war, too. One was Lt. Floyd Wilkes, who lived in Alton. He was anlikeVietnam war,SM-MARTJ A Springman//• LADIES• MEN’S• LINEN• RECORDS• BOOKS• SIORTS• AUTOMOTIVE• MILLINERY• DRUGS• JEWELRY• TOBACCO• HARDWARE• HOUSEWARES• TOYS• SNACK BAR• SHOES• CAMERAHAS BORG-WARNER1401 VaiiKhn IW.START YOUR CHRISTMASfurnacesWood RiverSHOWING NOW!Godfrey, III. Ph. 408-343!Weekend SpecialsCHOCOLATECREAMThe Bethalto Community Unit8 board accepted two bids Monday night, one for new cafe-The low bid of $10,468 fromthe Southern Equipment Co. of St. Louis was accepted on theeafpfpria pnninment..Army Air Corps pilot of a B-29,The board has asked the su- ^e biggest plane of thai eia,and was killed in action overMILK'pervisory staff to investigate the matterand report atALL FLAVORSGuam. Capt. Frederick Mill-
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