Evening star., 1945-04-05
Todoy's Casualty Lists

+, Nary Uounded - so
Il Many missing -= 81
| Thus far in this 1Udr 1,347
! men from the District area |
/ haue been reported killed.
] Killed
i Pfc. Joseph DulIea. %, para
J, trooper, died as result of wounds
, he received on Luzon February II
when he attempted to save com
Ipanions after six-inch mortal
shell burst in their midst.
Pvt Dullea, whose name was in.
cluded in a War Department lis
today, is the son of Mr.. and Mrs
. jeremiah c. Dullea, 453l Thirty
second street, Mount Rainier. HI
was graduated from Gonzaga II
1910 and attended George Wash.
ington University and Maryland
University He was on the Con
zaga basket ball team. He worked
at the Navy Yard here. He entered
the Army two and a half year:
ago and went overseas last Novem.
ber.
A sister, Ensign Mary Dullea
SPAR. is stationed here. Mr.. Dull
lea is employed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Pfc. Melvin t'Mer) Winfield
former Washington-Lee High
School football captain, who played
on the 1912 Virginia All-High team
was killed in action March 16 ir
Germany, according to information
received by his parents, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Fred T. Winfield. 64l North
Lincoln street, Arlington.
Pfc. Winfield led Washington-Lee
through one of its most successful
seasons in 1912 and is remembered
as scorer of the winning touch
down against Central High Schoo
at Griffith Stadium in the last game
of the 1912 season. That year, as ar
end on the Al-High eleven, ht
played in charity game in Rich.
mond.
( An an-around athlete, Pfc. Win.
! field won his letter in baseball as 6
pitcher in l941. He also was letter.
man in track.
/ A native of the District area, Pfc
Winfield reached his 2lst birthday
nine days before his death He en-
tered the service March l, 1943, ano
/ was sent overseas with the infantry
I last January. Pfc WinfieldS father
is policeman attached to the thiro
precinct. A brother. Seaman Lt
Gene T Winfield. l8. is serving il
! the Pacific.
1t. Westmoreland Babbage, %, OF
the Army Air Forces. son of Johr
D. Babbage. 290l Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. was killed in action or
the Western front on March 81. his
father has been notified. Mr.. Bah.
bage is a dealer in investment Sc
curities here and is president OF
the Rutland Railroad.
1t Babbage attended Pasadena
CCalifl College and was commits
stoned in February, 1914. A brother
John Davis Babbage, is with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in
Huntington. w Va.
Marine COrpI. Lyle c. Sheen, 20
veteran of five major campaigns
whose mother Mrs. Ruth K Sheen
lives at 1921 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV, was killed in action or
Two Jima March g. the Navy De
/ partment announced. He had beer
overseas since February, 1943.
He joined the Marine Corps in
July, 1912, after attending high
school in Chicago. Ill. where he
was born. He participated in the
battles for Guam. Bougsinville
Tarawa, Saipan and Two Jima, his
mother said. He has. two brothers
in the service, Radarman IthirC
class Wray Sheen, on a carrier in
the Pacific, and 1t. j. g. Walter
John Sheen, Naval Air Corps, now
stationed in Norfolk. Va, after duty
overseas. A sister, Mrs. Doris f
Maca, works for the War Depart
ment.
When Corpl. Sheen was stationed
on Guam, 1t. Sheen few there and
arranged surprise meeting around
Christmas time, their mother said
An officer sent jeep for the young
Marine and the two brothers met
for the first time in two years
They spent the night together. .
Sergt. William E. Hardy, jr., 25
died March 3 from wounds received
on the. western front, his wife, Mrs
Betty NJ Hardy, 1907 Thirty ninth
street, Brentwood, Md, has been
notified. Sergt. Hardy had been
wounded twice before, once last
June and again in July.
A native of Baltimore, he was
graduated from Bladensburg High
School and was employed in a Balti-
more bank before entering the serv-
ice about four years ago. Sergt
Hardy was sent overseas in jan
uary, 1914.
Pfc. Leonard L. Limerick, 19, Sor
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Limerick
1900 Kenilworth avenue, Bladens-
burg, Md, was killed in actor
March 20 in Germany, according tc
! information received by his parents
Pvt. Limerick attended Jefferson
Junior High School and was EN-.
ployed at the Southern Oxygen Co
here before entering the service last
July. He was sent overseas in Feb
ruary. Two brothers are serving ir
the Navy, Wilder M. Limerick, or
duty in the North Atlantic, ano
Joseph C. Limerick in the South
Pacific.
Sergt. John A. Horn, 26, U. S
M. c.. whose wife, Mrs. Dorothy A
Horn, lives in Indianhead, Md, was
killed in action on Two Jima or
February 20, it was officially an
nounced by the Navy Department
today.
Sergt. Horn joined the Marine
Corps in January, 1889, and went
overseas last November. A native
of Cincinnati. he attended school