Evening star., 1945-01-26
Killed

Department notified his wife, Mrs
Celeste Dorney Sasser, 2425 Soutl
Inge street, Arlington. His parent
live at Woodland avenue, Takom'
Park, Md.
1t. Sasser was graduate of Roose
velt High School and the Universit!
of North Carolina. He worked TO
the Aetna Life Insurance Co. il
Hartford. Conn.,, before entering tn,
Army in March, l94l. He was com.
missioned at Fort Knox, KY, in Oc'
tober, 1912, and went overseas tn,
following February.
1t. Sasser participated In the In
vasion of Sicily with the I'd Armoret
Division of Gen. Patton's 7th Army
He was in continuous action will
the I'd Armored Division through tn,
invasion of France, Belgium, Hol
land and Germany, his father said
He is also survived by brother
1t. q. g. William G. Sasser, on dut,
at Seattle, Wash, and a younge
sister, Margaret Louise.
Capt. william Gray ShuItz, Is
son of Dr. Frank Hood Shultz an1
the late Mrs. Constance Shultz, 652.
Brookville road, Chevy Chase, Md
was killed III action January 13 II
Belgium, the War Department ha.
notified his wife, Mrs. Frances Viii.
cox Shultz, at her home in Lookout
Mountain, Tenn. They have a 2.
year-old son, William Gray Shultz, jr
Capt. Shultz, a native of Wash.
ington, was graduated from Virgins
Military Institute in 1941 and wa.
commissioned in a cavalry unit
which later became a tank corps
unit.
He went overseas a year ago. His
last letter to his father was re.
ceived a week ago after it was
mailed December 4. His brother
Pvt. Frank Hood Shultz, jr., is with
the LIST Army in Belgium. The two
brothers never met overseas al.
though they corresponded.
Sergt. Donald r. Brooks, 80, win.
ner of the Silver Star for gallantry
died September % of wounds re-
ceived in action in Italy, it was
learned here today. He formerly
lived at 2480 Sixteenth street NV
A native of Gardner, Mass, where
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
A. Brooks, live, Sergt Brooks came
here in 1887 to attend George Wash
ington University for two years. He
was a graduate of Colgate Univer.
sity. At one time he managed thu
Simplex Time Recorder Co. on -Rocl
Creek Church road Overseas since
July. 1943, Sergt. Brooks participated
in the battles of Bizerte, Casino
Anzio beachhead and the siege ot
Livorno with the famous Red Bull
Division.
Sergt. Brooks was posthumously
awarded the Silver Star for covering
his company's withdrawal by man.
ming a machine gun and drawing
intense counterfire.
1t. Carter Kelly, 81, Warrenton
Va, who distinguished himself last
December in assuming command
after his commanding officer hao
been killed and leading his platoon
for five days against the Nazis
in Belgium, died in action January
I8, the War Department Informed
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Kelly.
1t. Kelly suffered shrapnel wounds
in his left side during the December
action in Belgium. He enlisted soon
after Pearl Harbor, while student
at Washington and Lee University
and went overseas last September
He was nephew of Clarence w
Carter, Warrenton attorney ano
former Commemorative attorney OF
Fauquier County. Besides his par
ents, two sisters survive. News OF
his death reached his parents only
a short time after they received
word that he had been promoted
from sergeant to second lieutenant
First 1t. Vernon Leroy McKinstry
E, %, of 4515 Burlington road, Hy-
attsville, Md, was killed in England
January 5 while making test flight
has parents have been notified by
the War Department.
A B-24 pilot ana a squadron
leader, 1t. McKinstry tested planes
after they were damaged in addi-
ton to his regular combat duties
He recently was awarded the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross for out.
standing achievement in flying into
enemy territory. He also held the
Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clus-
tiers, and a citation for service dur
ing the D day invasion.
A former student at the Universit,
of Maryland, he was commissioned
on completion of the ROTC course
there and entered active service ir
May. 1941. He went overseas two
years later. His parents have
learned he was due to be promoted
to captain soon.
He was member of Mount Harmon
Masonic Lodge of Hyattsville and the
American Society of Mechanica
Engineers. He also served as as
sistant Scoutmaster of Troop POI
Boy Scouts of Hyattsville and wa.
an Eagle Scout with four Eagl
palms.
Sergt. Fred CasseH, 28, died O
wounds received in France on No
vember Is, according to word re
ceived by his wife, Mrs. Barbar,
Cassell of 106 South st. Asaph street
Alexandria.
Born in Marion, Va, Sergt. Casse]
lived in Alexandria for four year
and was employed as driver 70
the A. B. & w. Transit Co. befor
joining the Army in July, 1874:
After training at Camp Fores
Tenn. he went overseas in Jul,
1914, with the 80th Infantry Divi
sion.
/ In addition to his wife, Sergt. Cas-
sell is survived by his parents, Nj
and Mrs. Robert N. Cassell of Boyc
Md; two brothers, one Of whom
in the Army overseas, and sister
Wounded
Pfc. Charles B. Zamsly, Al, sor
lof Mrs. Gertrude Zamsky, 7os Oti,
place NV, was listed by the Wa,
Department today as wounded il
faction. His family said he was eyac.