Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
-Four Area Men
Reported Wounded
In Korean Fighting

In Korean Fighting
Four Washington area men
have been wounded in the the
Korean fighting, the Defense
Department announced today.
Wounded were:
sergt. William e. Krilling,
whose wife lives at 1925 Potomac
avenue. Alexandria, Va.
ID 1t. Wilbert c. Petty, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman w. Petty,
1626 VI street NV.
Marine Pfc. Frank w. Cappella,
son Of Mrs. Gertrude Cappella,
gao c street Sc.
Marine Pfc. John w. Mills,
whose wife lives at 923 Hamilton
street NV.
A Defense Department list to-
day Identified 48 Korean war
casualties, with IL killed, 80
wounded. one captured, one
missing and one injured.
Last night. los other casualties
were identified.
Hit by Grenade.
Sergt. Krilling, 26, was
wounded February Is in the
right arm. hip and leg by frag-
mentS from grenade explosion.
In a letter to his wife, Mrs.
Maureen Krilling, he wrote that
in the excitement-he did not
realize at first that he was hit.
The serviceman said that he
helped several other men. who
were more severely wounded, be-
fore he knew that he had been
hit.
Sergt. Krilling, who left for
Korea last October. wrote he ex-
pected to be back on. the front
lines before long.
A native of Marquette, Mich,
he was reared in Buffalo Lake.
Mimi, and enlisted in the Army
after his graduation from high
school there.
He holds many awards for
rife craftsmanship. including
the Society Award in the Presi-
dents Match-held last fall at
Fort BenninQ Ga
Sergt. and Mrs. KriIling have
one child-Kathleen-born Fri
day at Fort Belvoir Hospital.
Fragments in Arm.
1t. Petty, "a, was hit Febru-
AIRY IA in the upper and lower
left arm by grenade fragments.
A platoon leader in Company
I, 32d Infantry Regiment, 7th
Division. he had been in Korea
since about last November.
He entered the service in Oc-
tober, 1851, and took training
ct Indiantown Gap, Pa, and Fort
Benning, Ga.
Born in Asheville, N. c., he
moved with his family to Wash
ington as young boy. 1t. Petty
e.. graduated from Howard Univer-
sity, where he took a liberal arts
course. He spent three months
In Europe before entering the
Army.
1t. Petty has a brother, LIST 1t.
Alfred Petty, who is a Korean
veteran now stationed at Fort
Lewis, Wash.
Flown by HelicOpter.
Pvt. Cappella, 20. was wound
cd February Is. He was flown
by heucopter to the Danish hos
pital ship Jutlandia.
He wrote his family that he
was en- route aboard the ship to
o hospital in Japan. He said his /
wound was not serious.
Pvt. Cappella. a member of a
weapons company Of the Sd Bat |
talon. 7th Infantry Regiment of |
the LIST Marine Division left the
country last July for Korea. He
enlisted in the Marine Corps in
February. 1852.
He was born in Plymouthe
Mass, and moved here with his I
family in 1916. He is a graduate
of Eastern High School.
A brother, Marine Pfc. Charles
w. Cappella, recently returned
from the Korean fighting and is
now stationed in Massachusetts,.
Wounded Second Time.
Pvt. Mills, 20, was wounded for
the second time February 8. He.
was struck in the right arm by
mortar shell fragments.
The young Marine wrote his
family that he was hoSpitalized
in Japan until February IA. then
returned to duty. He said his
wound would need some further
medical treatment.
Pvt Mills. of the LIST Marine
Division, was first wounded Janu-
airy 26 while on patrol. A bullet /
creased the top of his head after
he Owed to the ground and pulled .
his helmet over his eyes. He was
treated behind the lines and re-
turned to duty.
A veteran of more than three
years service, Pvt. Mills left for
Korea last November. He was
born in Yonkers, N. Y. !