The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 25

Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, March 29, 1945 Twentyfive Part of Record Casualty List he hoped that he would never have to go through another such experience as the invasion of Iwo. He Casualties tCentiaaeel Fress Pace Ok) airborne division Europe; Staff Sergt. Edward, an airplane mechanic at the Bartow Air Base in Florida nd Pfc. Henry who is In the Infantry in the Philippines. y.

If and Mrs. George W. Burris of Hollo-way Terrace and is a graduate of William Penn High School. A brother. Private George W.

Burris, is stationed in the Aleutians. Another brother, Charles Burris, was recently discharged from the Army Marion J. Sklodowski Inducted into the Army while attending Wilmington High School in June 1943. he received training at bat section but is in ordnance supply. William H.

Hall Private Hall wrote a letter on March 8 saying that he was in combat. He went- into the Army In February 1943 and went overseas in December 1844. A bother George Marshall Hall, Jr, has been given a medical discharge from the Army. Elmer D. Miles Sergeant Miles has been reported Penn.

returned home after visiting relatives in Binghamton. N. T. Ha has returned to Fort Benning, Oa where he is stationed. Robert L.

Taylor 'Post No. IS, American Legion, will meet In th Legion Hall tomorrow at 8:15 x. m. with Vice-Commander Patrick Pagan in charge. This evening from 7:30 to 9:30 clock the Red Cross first aid class will meet in the Central Orange Hall, Port Penn, with Wilbur Drlficoll as leader.

0 Give a share in America, buy War Delaware City DELAWARE CITY, March 29 (Special). Mrs. John Rudic of Port Penn has returned to her home here after being a patient at the Delaware Hospital. Wilmington. Corp.

and Mrs. Earl Brady and daughter, Marjoiie Ann, of Port Starts ib Vtim IL ill 1 AN I I MA Bond and Stamps! TODAY! ftVtf. ViS NEW" said he lived in a cave evacuated by the Japs since it was safer than a foxhole. On Iwo the Marine captain also met his cousin, Corp. John Adams of Roxbury, N.

whom.he had not seen in years. A graduate of the Saleslanum High School nd the University of Delaware wh't he wan co-captain of the 1940 football team, he held a reserve commission from the University of Delaware in anti-aircraft artillery but trausferred to the Marine Corps and received training at Quantico, Va. His wife is the former Marian Stites of Chester Springs, Pa. Frank Fusca Private Fusca served with the 11th Airborne Division. He is now hospitalized in the Philippines.

In a letter to his parents he said that the had been shot in the foot. Before going into the Army in March, 1943, he had been employed at the Dravo Corporation. He volunteered for the glider infantry and had training at Camp MacKall, N. and also had training at Camp Polk. La.

He went overseas in May, 1944. In New Guinea he volunteered for the paratroops and had training there. He has two brothers In the service, Staff Sergt. Joseph a dental technician serving with a general hospital in France, and Private C. Albert Fusca stationed at Fort Warren, Wyo.

Perry E. Burkett A graduate of the University of Delaware in April, 1943, Lieutenant Burkett went immediately to Officers Candidate School at Camp Davis, N. where he was com-: missioned the following September in the anti-aircraft artillery. He was stationed at Camp Hulen, Tex, and Camp Butner, N. where he was transferred to the infantry.

He received special infantry training at Fort Benning. Ga. Lieutenant Burkett left for over-; seas late in February. His mother received the two let-j ters, one announcing his arrival overseas and the other saying he was! in a hospital in England at the same time. His brother.

First Lieut. William C. Burkett, is serving with the famous 104th Armored Division of C-eneral Patton's Third Army. He wrote home that a mayor of a German town had surrendered to him. Lieutenant Burkett is not in a com FEATcma "THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET" NILS ASTHER PALM GARDENS 7th te Shipley Streets Biggest Bargain in Music Beverages LOUIS ZTANNUZIOS MUSIC DANCING NITELY! Anthony Dundee, Mgr.

EVERY NITE Olivere's Camp Wheeler. and went over seas in November 1943. He served with a headquarters division in the Seventh Army. Reported missing on Sept. 14 In France, he is now a prisoner of the Germans.

A letter from the soldier arrived from a German prison camp two weeks before the War Department telegram arrived. He asked his family to send him cigarettes. The prisoner has four brothers In the armed services. They are Corp. Tech.

Joseph, Jr, serving with an antl-aircraXt battery in Italy who was a member of the 193th Coast Artillery berore it was federalized, Corp. Walter who Is serving with an TONIGHT, FRI, SAT. MATINEE SATURDAY MMRY M. corrz A ftow Comatfy-DrMM by SEITA LAMBERT mam ummc tmut umim HELD ALEXANDER R0BBINS EMMET Pirctd fcy DAVID BURTOH BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN Prtcr ETtninf Orck, 11.48; Bale let raws. fl.SO; last rw, tl.St; Gallery anreerre4 Me; Sat.

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Starts TODAY William Bendlx Susan Hayward And missing for the second time accord ing to a War Department telegram received by his wife. Last January he was' first reported missing but later a letter was received from him saying he was safe. Shortly after this he was reported wounded on Feb. 23 and a week later was re ported missing on that date. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund Miles of near Appleton, Md. Anthony S. Montour Petty officer Montour has been reported missing by the Naval Air Station at Brunswick, Me. When last seen he was riding in an amphibious Jeep with Seaman Second Class Arthur T.

McMahon. 19, of Philadelphia, Saturday off the mouth of Little River, near the Brunswick air station. John Charles Burris Serving with the 106th Llon Di vision in the opening phases of the. battle of the Belgian Bulge, Private Burris was reported missing in action on Dec. 24.

Word that he Is a prisoner reached Mrs. Burris just three months later, on March 24. Inducted Into the Army in May, 1944, Private Burris had 17 weeks' infantry training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. He had one furlough In October before going overseas. His letters said that arrived In Germany on Nov.

29. Before going Into the service. Private Burris was employed at the Dravo Corporation. The prisoner is the son of Mr. EARLE Mew Caatl.

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G. Robinson "MR. WINKLE GOES TO WAR" Mm Catlam SHewina Daily 1230 aJ CHARLES LAUGHTON "HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME" Friday, March 0 Evdra Keyea a Ally Jaalya "STRANG AFPAIB" I HPl iVrll Mtlea North at Wil. Gt. Frtata BlrC TODAY aaS TOMORROW TWO HITS DOUBLE FEATTRB "Man In Half Moon Strut" -AND "Mttt Miss Bobby Sox" OTEN S.4S laat Cematste MAETLAMD AVENUE AT I0XW00D ROAD JOAN DAVIS-BOB CROSBY "KANSAS CITY KITTY" ANN NEAGLE-RICHARD GREENS "THE- YELLOW CANARY" STARTS TOMORROW "Oar Hearts Were Xeanc aad Gay" rREST Private M.

J. Sklodowski Prisoner Corp. Paul Flynn Wounded Anthony S. Montour Missing Private Charles A. Beusse Wounded Pfc.

William J. Hutson Killed Lieut. Perry E. Burkett Wounded gineering unit at Camp Claiborne, and went overseas eight months ago. After his arrival overseas he was transferred to the infantry.

The wounded soldier attended the Richardson Park school and was ployed by Amoco Oil Company when inducted. He has two brothers in the service, Corp. Robert Flynn in Belgium and Sergt Thomas Flynn, Jr, who is in the South Pacific. William H. Chambers Sergeant Chambers has recovered and is now back on active duty.

He was employed at the Experimental Station of the DuPont Company before going into the Army in March, 1943. William P. Martin Private Martin is now receiving care at a hospital in England. He was formerly employed in the advertising department of the DuPont Company when inducted into the Army last July. James Mullen Captain Mullen received many shrapnel wounds when a mine exploded near him.

The most dangerous wound was in his eye. He is now on his way to a rest camp. In a letter written home he said BOWMAN ((j) Janet BLAIR WW MarcPLATT jT 4 Leslie BROOKS Dusy Anderson BSJS muss Starts TOMORROW! nd was in combat reached his mother with a letter saying that he had been wounded and in a hospital in England. Today a war Depart ment telegram arrived saying he was Wounded March 16 in Germany. Following are the other Delaware casualties: Killed in Action Pfc.

William J. Hutson. son of lira. Rose Hutson, Wyoming; Feb, on Luzon. Staff Sergt.

Homer B. Wooleyhan ox Newark; Feb. 27 in Germany, Missing Stall Sergt. Elmer D. Miles, 30, husband of Mrs.

Helen Krauss Miles of Newark; since Feb. 23 in Ger many. Pfc. William H. Hall, 20, son of Mrs.

George Marshall Hall, 805 Wil mington Avenue, Elsmere; since March 8 in France. Anthopy S. Montour, 20, aviation radioman second class, son of Mrs. Mildred Campellone. 623 Madison Streets since March 17 in Brunswick, Me.

Wounded Cora. Paul Fl.vnn, 19, son of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Flynn, 70l Lake Street. Rlchardsont Park: March 8 in Germany. Pfc.

Charles A. Beusse, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Beusse.

421 Shipley Street; Feb. 25 in France. Tech. Sergt. William N.

Chambers, 11, son of William G. Chambers. 718 Vandever Avenue; Feb. 28 in Germany. Private William P.

Martin, 19, son of Mrs. Katherine A. Martin. 405 South Union Street; Feb. 26 In Germany.

Pfc. Frank Fusca, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Fusca, Feb. 7 on Luzon.

Prisoners Private Marion J. Sklodowski, 20, on of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sklodowski, 206 Eighth Avenue. Privats John Charles Burris, 23, husband of Mrs.

Anna Dug an Burris, 413 South Claymont Street. The War Department today announced 4,983 casualties including 841 killed, 2,258 wounded and 1,389 prisoners of war. The Navy Department today announced 248 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, Including 148 dead, 61 wounded and 39 missing. Thomas McFarland Skelly Captain Skelly was the son of Mrs. James T.

Skelly and the late Mr. Skelly. He was associated with the Hercules Powder Company when he enlisted in February, 1941. He was commissioned in the field artillery in November, 1942. and went overseas in January, 1945.

The soldier had attended Canterbury School at New Milford, and was a member of the class of 1938 at the University of Virginia. Two small children, Ann Skelly and Thomas McFarland Skelly, Jr, suiive. The son was born shortly before Captain Skelly went overseas. Also surviving are his mother, two brothers and three sisters, Capt. James T.

Skelly, now in the Philippines; Lieut, (j. Charles P. Skelly, with the Naval Air Forces in the Pacific, Miss Gertrude Skelly In the WAVES, stationed at Quon-set Point, R. Mrs. Joseph A.

Wheelock and Mrs. Robert F. Go-heen. Charles E. Young Private Young, who went through the Marshall Islands and Tinian and Saipan campaigns, enlisted in the Marines in September, 1942, while employed at the Hercules Experiment Station.

The telegram notifying his parents of his death was received late Tuesday night. Signed by A. E. Vandegrift, commandant of the Marine Corps, it informed them that their son was buried on Iwo Jima, Volcanic Islands. It also said a letter 'would follow.

In February. 1942, Private Young was graduated from Uie Brown Vocational School where he studied chemistry for three years. He received his early education at the Bayard School, and No. 8 and No. 28 public schools.

Upon completing his chemical training he joined -the Hercules Company and remained there until his enlistment. He received his boot training at arris Island, S. and from there was transferred to Camp Lejune, N. C. In June of last year he was home on the only furlough he had received prior to being transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif.

He left this country a year and three months ago for the South Pacific theatre of operations and for a short time was stationed in Honolulu. The last letter received from him by his parents was written on March 2, while in a foxhole on Iwo Jima. At that time he said the. fighting was heavy but that he was all right His father has been chief pharmacist at the Delaware State Hospital since 1934. Prior to that Mr.

Young operated a drug store at Fourth and Harrison Streets for 27 years. Homer B. Wooleyhan Staff Sergeant Wooleyhan form erly made his home with Oscar Knox at 20 East Cleveland Avenue Newark. Before his induction four years ago he was employed at the Curtis Paper Mill, Newark. He was the son of Clifton Wooleyhan of Temple ville, Md.

Roland P. Jackson Private Jackson was killed Feb. 21, according to a Navy Department teiegram received by his wife, the former Josephine George, in aaai' tion to his wife he is survived by a two-year-old son, Lamont, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jackson, all of Newark.

A graduate of both the Newark i cooperation with for the proper Pfc. Charles E. Young, Jr. Capt. James Mullen Wounded Killed Private John Pfc.

William H. Hall Missing Charles Burris Prisoner Capt. Thomas M. Skelly Killed Pf Frank Fusca Wounded High School and the University of Delaware, Private Jackson was ac tive in sports while attending the university and was a pitcher on the baseball team and played soccer and basketball. He coached all sports while physical instructor at the high school.

WiUiam J. Hutson Private Hutson entered the service March, 1941. He went overseas after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In addition to his mother, Mrs. Rose Hutson, he is also survived by two sisters, Mrs.

Henry Marker and Mrs. Carlotta McMullen, two brothers at home, Elwood and Abe. Prior to entering the Army Private Hutson was employed at the Dover Air Field. Charles A. Beusse Private Beusse was learning the electrician's trade when inducted into the Army in January, 1943.

He first served with a barrage balloon battalion at Fort Brady, and at Fort Sheridan, I1L, before being transferred to an anti-aircraft artillery unit at Fort Bliss, Tex. There he volunteered for the infantry and had training at Camp Adair, before going overseas in November, 1944. His parents have received word from him in the hospital which said that he had been awarded the Purple Heart which he was sending home. The soldier had attended Wilmington High Paul Flynn Corporal Flynn was wounded in the side according to word received from the hospital where he is receiving treatment. He went into the Army in August 1943.

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