Nogales international., 1946-06-28

The first consolidated listing of
Army dead and missing in World
War Ia compilation of the
names of nearly 100000 men and
women who gave their lives in the
Nations Service-was released
Wednesday by the War Depart
ment.
The list contained the names
of A3 from Santa Cruz County, as
follows:
SANTA CRUZ LIST
Fred S. Afford, Jesus P. Alvarez,
Frank C. Apostolos, Joe j. Arino,
Josiah Bond, Edward Carrillo, Fed
erico M. Castillo, Lawrence S. Col
lins, Francisco j. Colunga, William
M. Cummings, Alfonso Y. Diaz,
Rodolfo D. Espinoza, Gilberto c..
Estrada, Ray G. Fortner, Jose M.
Galindo, Gabriel L. Gallego, Robert
Gonzalez, Noises Gonzalez, Wilford
T. Heninger, Edward T. Herzig.
Ramon M. Lopez, James A. Ma
bante, Humberto 0. Marquee, Ro-
bert w. Mcclure, Jr., Roberto ".
Montiel, Carlos o. Peters, Bruce M.
Powell, Alex Ramirez, Manuel H.
Ramirez, Frank Reed, Harry N.
Renshaw, Pedro o. Robles, Francis
ca A. Rocha, Alfredo G.. Rodriguez,
Eugene Santa Cruz, James F. Son.
Charles A. Stafford, Allan B. Un-
derwood, Steven G. Valenzuela, Luis
Velasquez, Oral L. Whitehead, D.
j. Wooddell, Jr., and Joe Yanez.
The list contains the names of
1913 casualties from Arizona.
so Booklets
The list was made up of fifty
booklets, one for each state, one for
the District of Columbia, and one
for the Territories and Possessions
of the United States. The Philip
pine Commonwealth was not in
cluded in the study.
An overall death and missing rate
of 2.93 per cent from all causes was
indicated by the listing. Of more
than 100000 men and women
mobilized into the Army between
the Presidential declaration of un-
limited national emergency on May
27, 1941, and the concluding date
of the study, January 81, l946, a
total of 3O7, ,554 had been killed in
action, died of other causes or be-
came missing, later to be determined
dead. In addition, 1924 persons
were still carried as missing on
January 81, 1916, bringing the total
number of names in the list to $685.
978.
Of the total, ST. per cent, num-
bering 176, 432, we're listed as killed
in action. Other casualty break
downs showed that Is, ,493 (8.25 per
cent? died of wounds suffered in
combat; 929 (O.3 per cent? died of
combat injuries; 85,219 OTIS per
cent? died other than in battle, and
19,481 (63 per cent? were admins
tratively determined to have died.
The missing figure of 1924 repre-
sented O.45 per cent of the total.
Most of the persons who we're de-
termined to have died were carried
for periods of at least one year in
a missing status, and were declared
dead under Public Law 400, 77th
Congress, after thorough investiga-
ton Of each case.
In the foreword to the booklets,
it was pointed out that the War De-
partment is extremely reluctant to
hold out hope to next of kin that
any missing persons will be found
alive. 1t is expected that after a
reasonable lapse of time and after
due investigation, most of these
cases will be closed with
findings of death.
The death rate" in various states
(Which also includes missing) fol-
lowed closely the proportions OF
their contributions to Army
although some dislocations
we're noted, especially in the case of
New Mexico, which early in the war
suffered heavy casualties in a Ma
tional Guard unit in the Philip
pines. New Mexico, with four
tenths of one per cent of the ma
TONS population, contributed .43
Of one per cent of the Army's