Casualties and Other Related News

Index

Originally Published by the ECHGS and used here with their permission.

*Date published in local paper

*9 March 1945 [Prisoner of War]. Howard Gentry since 13 December 1944. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gentry of Evelyn.

*9 March 1945 [Prisoner of War]. Leonard Cox since 19th Dec. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cox of Station Camp. [Estill Co.]

*16 March 1945 [Killed]. PFC Delaney Berryman killed in Germany on 9 Feb. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Headley Berryman of White Oak. [Seventh casualty from White Oak. (Estill Co.)]

*30 March 1945 [Killed]. PFC Elmer Winburn, died of wounds received on 9 Feb 1945. Died in German Prison Cmp. Reported Missing in Action since December 1944. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harlen B. Winburn.

*30 March 1945 [Killed]. PFC Lloyd D. Tudor while fighting the Japanese on Iwo Jima. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tudor of Shade. [Estill Co.]

*13 April 1945 [Missing in Action]. Cpl. Hobart Osborne in Germany since 20th March. Son of Mrs. Nettie B. Osborne of Lieghton [Estill Co.]. 25 May newspaper states he was killed in Germany on 20th March. Nettie was his wife.

*13 April 1945 [Killed]. Lt. Dan Hollan on Luzon, Phillippines Island. He was formerly of Irvine. Parents Mr. and Mrs. John Hollan of Jackson, Breathitt Co.

*13 April 1945 [Killed]. PVT James Raymond Flynn in Germany on 25th March. Parents Mrs. Laura Flynn, and his father resides at Lexington. He was the 2nd son to be killed. His brother, Turner, killed 6 July 1944.

*27 April 1945 [Killed]. Sgt. Harold G. Hackworth on 11th April in England. He was a gunner of a B24 Liberator Bomber. Wife Doris J. Robertson Hackworth of Irvine. Parents Mr. and Mrs. G. Hackworth of Ravenna.

*27 April 1945 [Killed]. PFC S. H. Tipton. Died of wounds in Germany on 9th April. Son of Mrs. Inis E. Tipton.

*27 April 1945 [Killed]. Worthly Tipton of U. S. Navy, killed in the South Pacific on 31st January. He formerly lived in Irvine. His sister Mrs. B. K. Crouch, another sister Juanita Tipton of Waltersville.

*4 May 1945 [Killed]. PVT Floyd Tudor on Iwo Jima on 22nd February. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam D. Tudor.

*4 May 1945. PFC William I. Horn Jr. of the U. S. Marines died of his wounds at Guam on 23rd April.

*4 May 1945 [Killed]. PVT Gordon L. Hardy in Germany on 24th April. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hardy of West Irvine.

*25 June 1945 [Killed]. PVT Eary Perry on Luzon, Phillippin Island on 12th June. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Ben Perry of Wisemans Crossing.

*20 July 1945 [Killed]. PVT Raymond C. Estes in the Phillippines on 29th April, 1945. Wife Grace. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Willie Estes of Fox.

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