Clifford "Jack" Preston

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Jack Preston Is Killed In Action

 

     Mrs. Gladys Stepp Preston of Louisa has been notified by Adjutant General Ulio of the War Department that her husband, Pvt. Clifford E. (Jack) Preston, who was officially, reported missing in action in the North African invasion Nov. 8, 1942, now is officially regarded as killed.

    Pvt. Preston, member of an infantry unit that landed in North Africa Nov. 8, 1942, was the son of Mrs. Arthur Preston and the late Mr. Preston of Richardson. Maj. Gen. Ulio’s letter stated he was aboard a vessel which was sunk during the landing of the invasion army on the northern coast of Africa.  All efforts to find his body have failed, the officer wrote. Mrs. Preston and her son, who was born two days after his father was killed in the Nov. 8 landing, live in Louisa. A Purple Heart was awarded to Pvt. Preston posthumously by the government, and has been received by Mrs. Preston.

 

©Paintsville Herald
Thursday
1-20-1944