The Coolidge examiner., 1946-06-28
War Dept. Lists
IT'S PinaI Soldiers
As War IICasuaIties


Some known dead not included
in National Honor Roll just is
sued; State had 4.oI per cent OF
service men and women dead
or missing.
one hundred and fifteen PIMA
county soldiers. including one
WAC. were listed In the Arizona
Honor Roll Of the nations casual
ties iu World War II. Just re-
leased by the War Department
The Honor Roll was the first
consolidated listing Of Army dead
aud missing. and included the
names OF nearly 3I0.000 men and
women who gave their lives I'm
the nations service The list
contains the bes; information
available on all military person
mel who were killed or died or
became and remained missing be
tween May q. 1871. and January
81. 1876. and includes both battle
aud non battle dead or missing.
The War Department points out
that in a work OF this scope there
are necessarily errors. and IL Is
noted that a number OF Coolidge
boys reported dead are not in
cluded ia the listing.
Arizona. which contained 0.37
per cent Of the population OF the
United States and its possessions
In 1910. contributed 03s per cent
OF the total number who entered
the Army. or these men and
women who went to war. 40l
per cent failed to return This
figure represent 05I per cent of
the army's total dead and missing
Those included In the report in
Pinal county are listed below with
their home addresses. However.
in some cases. the residences Of
these men could not be estab-
lished through the records OF the
local selective service board.
This was explained by the fact
that more than 800 county citizens
volunteered early before the Sc
lectiye service system was set up
with the records OF all available
manpower.
Pinai County Casualties:
Haskell Antonio. Blackwater:
Masashi Araki. Rivers: Rufus
blanchard. Eloy: Oscar Breydy.
no record OF address. Lee Brooks.
Red Rock; Clyde G. Brown. no
record OF address: Joe Carrillo.
Superior. Jesus l.. Castro. Oracle.
James w Clement. Oracle. G.. I.
Crockett. no record OF address:
Edward Y. Daniel. Florence, Rob
ert Dawson. Red Rock Ernest
IA. Du Pay. no record OF address;
Earl H. Dye. Eloy; Chester X.
Eberling. Florence: Earl w Fig
gins. Coolidge: Damen 5. Figue-
roa. no record OF address, Alcario
Flores. Eloy. Richard T.. Flores.
Tiger: William c. GarreIs. Supe-
rior: Jesus Gomez. Coolidge; Pat
rick Gorham. Jr.. Superior; VIII
G. Griffin. no record of address;
Henry Gutierrez. Sonora; Clarence
Hammons. no record of address:
Rafael r. Haro. Superior: Ar
turo q. Hernandez. Superior:
Frank l.. Hernandez. Picacho; AL
vim b. Herring. Jr.. no record OF
address.
Minon Ishida. Rivers: Virgil II.
Johnson. no record; Manuel f.
Jones. no record: Anthony Jose.
Bapchule; James ]. Kanada. Riy-
ers. Herman l.. Kirkbridge. Riv-
ers: Lloyd f. Kleinman. Coolidge; I;
Shaw Kojaku. no record of ad-
dress; Henry NJ. Kondo, no rec
ord of address: Satoshi b. Kuro-
kawa. Rivers. Manner II. Larini.
Coolidge: John ID. Latimer, no
record of address: Arthur G. Lew
is. Sacaton; Pedro p. Licano. no
record OF address. Albert Lira.
Superior; Harry F. Madokoro, no
record of address; John V. Mad
rid. Tiger. Dennis Manuel, Chu
Chu Village. Casa Grande: Nicho-
las NJ Martinez, Superior; Pete
+. Martinez. Florence; Leonard p.
Meyer, Casa Grande: David NJ.
Milda. no record of address; Joe
B. Miller. no record of address /;
Joe NJ Montijo. Eloy; Jack l..
Mccullough. Coolidge; George n
Mcdaniel. Superior: Garnard n
Newkirk, Casa Grande: Charles
Noetzel. Superior: Henry |. Nor
ris. no record OF address; Arthur
Nunez. Superior; Alejo c. Ochoa
Casa Grande: Manuel ID. Olguin
Superior.
Elias b. Ortega. Florence: Lupe
c. ortiz, Sonora; Ramon b. Or
tiZ. Florence: George Ota. Rivers
Paul w. owens, no record of ad-
dress: Arthur w. Parker. no rec
ord OF address: John r. Patterson
Casa Grande: Rudolph B. Peralta