The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 14

Fourteen Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, October 5, 1944 and was employed by the Butler of Pierre S. duPont High School. Delaware Casualties Mustang group which recently passed the 450-mark in victories t-i iomM This eToun Is the Tree Surgery Company before enter-' He went into ing the Army. xJe UA rJ Harch. 1943.

and 1 third to make such a record In th Leon F. Truet received train- and was ready for immediate action. He went into the Army in 1941. His last letter was dated Aug. 15.

Corporal Crowe has a brother, Corp. William Crowe, who Is stationed in New Guinea with tthe Medical Corps. Clifton L. Cleaver Previously reported missing in action over France on Feb. 28.

Ser 3 a sister. Annis, now live on a farm near Landenberg, Pa. He has a brother, Homer, living in Newark, and a brother, Edgar, living in New Castle, and another brother, Alfred, at Port Penn. His mother, the former Grace Cowgill. died several years ago.

His brother, Pfc. Malvin Cleaver, is one of the four Air Force soldiers from Delaware who are members of an Eighth Fighter Command P-51 European theatre. 1 The Purple Heart medal was I ing at Camp awarded Private Truet the day after Blanding, he was wounded. Son of Mr. and Jog Mrs.

Fred R. Truet of Wilbur Street. and Camp Ruck-Newark, he was a graduate of New- er, before ark High School where he was well going overseas known as an athlete. When he went i in June. He was into the Army in November 1943 he stationed in was employed by the Pennsylvania England for a Railroad.

short titme be- After receiving training at Camp fore going to McClellan, he went overseas last June. He wrote his Newark High School and Brown Vocational High School, and had worked as a machinist at both Edgewood Arsenal and B. F. Shaw Company before he was inducted. After receiving basic training at Atlantic City and at Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, N.

he was among the group sent to the Curtiss Wright Factory at Robertson, for advanced study. He received his gunner training and his silver wings at Fort Myers, Fla. He was also stationed at Salt Lake City, Utah; Moses Lake. Kearney, and Sioux City, Iowa. While home on furlough at Christmas time, he was recalled after spending only two days here.

He was then transferred from Sioux City to Kearney. This was the last word his family had from him until they received letters dated Feb. 18, when he told them he was based in England. His father, a brother, Ralph, and ft' Casualties fCentinaed From Pge One) Avenue, Newark, on Sept. 5, in France.

Anthony J. Barbieri Private Barbieri. an infantryman, served with the Rainbow Division. He went overseas in June after receiving training at Camp Gruber, O'ila. Before being inducted into the Army in August 1943 he had been employed as a burner at the Dravo Corporation.

He attended Bayard Junior Hign School where he played on the basketball team. He spent a furlough at home before he was transferred from Camp Gruber to Fort George Meade as a replacement. He was stationed in before going to France. He I to? it part in the fighting in France and in Belgium and was with the 1 troops fighting in Germany when he was killed. Private Barbieri is survived by his mother and three brothers.

Corp. John P. Barbieri, 23, who is with the Ordnance Department in England: geant Cleaver is now reported killed on that date according to word from the German government received through the American Red Cross, He was an engineer on a B-17 Fly- ing Fortress based in England with! the Eighth Air Force. Shortly before taking off on his: last mission he was in a Red Cross) club in an English town. He saw his brother's name on the register! mother that he received shrap 5 Elmer C.

Crossland Wounded nel wounds an ttie leg. He said Private A. J. Private Walter Barbieri Cooper Killed Killed Elmer C. Crossland Private Crossland, the son of John and Florence Crossland, is recovering in a hospital in England and has been awarded the Purple Heart.

He also holds the Good Conduct medal and the Expert Markmanship badge. his injuries had been aggravated be fic. Malvm Cleaver, 19. "On my next pass I intend to look him up." Clifton wrote to his father. Sergeant Cleaver entered the Army in October, 1942.

He attended cause he was wounded while on guard duty at night and had to stick to his post until relieved in REGISTER TONICHT 7:30 O'CLOCK STANDARD BIBLE TRAINING WILMINGTON BIBLE COLLEGE Free Tuition Interdenominational seph Crossland. is on convoy duty the morning. He reported that he and has received battle stripes for was receiving fine treatment in the trips into enemy waters and action. hospital and was progressing welL Another brother. Private Philip E.

John Prow ir.r 1 i I MAJOR DISTRIBUTING CO. 804 No. Lincoln Wilmington 160 Phone: Wilmington 4-6107 Crossland. is witn me miantry 3RD FLOOR EDUCATIONAL BUILDING FIRST AND CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH France, while a brother. Pfc.

Francis J. Barbieri, 13. seaman second class stationed at Mayport, and Geno Barbieri. 22, who is a pipefitter employed at Dravo. They are tha sons of the late John Barbieri.

Walter D. Cooper ELEVENTH STREET WEST OF MARKET Serving with a field artillery unit in Prance. Corporal Crowe was wounded in action and is now hospitalized. He went overseas in June and after a short stay in England Charles 3. Crossland.

has served with the military police of the Fifth Army for nearly two years and is now in Italy. Charles recently re covered from an attack of malaria went over to France. His unit had Private Crossland was a graduate 1 been fully trained in this country Private Cooper is believed to have killed in the bitter fighting at Arnhem. A paratrooper, he had taken part in the invasion of France, jumping with the airborne troops D-Day. He had been wounded on June 12 in the fighting in France but had recovered and rejoined his unit after being hospitalized in Eng- land.

He volunteered for the action in Sergt. Clifton Corp. John S. L. Cleaver Crowe Killed Wounded -1 "i-'kJ cat "i MARKET STREET BELOW FOURTH er, Corp.

George H. Cooper, is serving with a troop-carrying squadron in England. In addition to his parents and the brother in service Cooper is survived by another brother, Harold, at home, and three sisters, Mrs. Merritt. Miss Jean Cooper, and Miss Geraldine Cooper.

He had attended the Warner Junior High School and the Wilmington High School. Private Cooper was a tree surgeon Holland and jumped with other Allied paratroopers there. Word of his death was received on Monday in a telegram from the War Department to his parents who conduct an ice cream store at the Avenue address. A brother-in-law, Pfc. Donald Merritt, enlisted in the paratroopers two years ago along with Private Cooper and both were serving in the same airborne division.

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