Texas Navy Casualty List, Sept 7-21, 1942

Navy Reveals 24 Texans on Casualty List

Twelve Dead, Three Wounded, 9 Missing Between Sept. 7-21

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. (AP)--The Navy Department announced Friday that its newest casualty list, covering the period from Sept. 7 to 21, inclusive, contained the names of twenty-four Texans.

Twelve are listed as dead, three wounded and nine missing.

Two enlisted men announced as missing on the previous list, released Sept. 17, were listed now as wounded.

The casualties:

Officers:
Dead:
John Delony, ensign; mother, Mrs. Sarah Delony, Charco.

Missing:
James Allen Rutledge, ensign, father B.T. Rutledge, Denison.

Enlisted personnel:
Dead:
Roy Lee Adkison Jr.; father, R. L. Adkison Sr., Fort Worth;
Kenneth Horton Cogdell; wife, Mrs. Pluma Lee Cogdell, Fort Worth;
William Edward Crawford; father, William Forbes Crawford, San Antonio;
John Reginal Few; wife, Mrs. Janet Deckard Few, Hillsboro; mother, Mrs. J. B. Few, Fort Worth;
J. B. Guess; father, Ben T. Guess, Omaha;
Harry Christian Johnson; father, George C. Johnson, San Antonio;
Joyce Wayne Lamson; mother, Mrs. Ona Lamson, Houston;
Henry McAfee; father, J. B. McAfee, El Campo;
Robert A. Phend; father, Ivo Phend, Hampshire;
James Clyde West; father, Henry Guy West, Teague;
Alvin John William; father, John A. Williams, Pittsburg.

Wounded:
Robert Earl Dean; brother, G. W. Dean, Mesquite (reported missing on Navy Department casualty list No. 12.);
James Milton Green; father, John Simpson Green, Refugio (reported missing on Navy casualty list No. 12.);
William Hackney Thompson; father, Morris C. Thompson, Coolidge.

Missing:
Charlie Richard Bennett; wife, Mrs. Audrey Mitchell Bennett, Mart;
Richard Lloyd Bolton; father, L. R. Bolton, Wylie;
George Bowen Cleveland; mother, Mrs. Inez Cleveland, Corpus Christi;
Frederick Wallace Fowler; father, Fred Cuthbert Fowler, Kilgore:
Henry Cecil Garrett; mother, Mrs. Hattie Abrella Boyer, Houston;
Eugene Buster Knoy; mother, Mrs. Leona Ames, Longview;
Archie Mayberry; father, John Willie Mayberry, Beeville;
Chester Phillips; wife, Mrs. Freddie Mae Phillips, Houston.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 3 Oct 1942