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Show County Casualties Include Two Killed-Wounded FjO Clayton Sullivan And St. Dwight 1 Jones Killed in Aetion Two Washington county boys have given their lives and two others have been wounded in action ac-tion according to this week's war casualty reports. They are FO Clayton Ballard Sullivan of Leeds, killed when the plane he was ferrying crashed Tuesday evening in California; Sgt. Dwight Jones of Enterprise, killed in action in Italy, October 17, 1944; Sgt. Eugene Eu-gene H. Gregerson, St. George, and Pfc. Richard Clawson Prince of Washington, wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland G. Sullivan Sulli-van of Leeds were advised officially offi-cially late Tuesday evening, July 3, of the accidental death of their son, whose wife, Shirley Olsen Sullivan and daughter, Janice, age 11 months, also reside in Leeds. Born Jan. 28, 1921 in Leeds, his parents are Leland G. and Lula Ballard Sullivan. He had his elementary schooling in Leeds, later graduating from high school and Dixie junior college in St. George. At Dixie college he completed com-pleted his CPT training, going from there to Salt Lake City, where he received his instructors rating and was assigned to Baker, California Army Air field for duty. After a year at Baker, he went to Deming, New Mexico where he received his commission as Flight Officer in the air transport command. com-mand. For the next 11 months he was stationed at Great Falls, Montana, ferrying planes to Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Alaska. Recently he was transferred to Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, Mo., and lost his life while on duty from this location. 1 Surviving besides his wife, his daughter and parents are one sister, Karma Sullivan of Leeds; three brothers, Pvt.Merlin Sul- ! livan at Camp Maxey, Texas, Ned and Gary Sullivan of Leeds. ! Plans for funeral services await '; arrival of the body and details of the accident. r Official conformation of the ' death of Sgt. Dwight Hulet Jones f- of Enterprise has not been re- 5 ceived. Word of his death came in a letter to his wife, Lillian i! Prince Jones, on June 21, from a : buddy, who was with him, Oct. I 17, 1944, when he met his death while serving with the tank divis-, divis-, 1 ion of the 5th Army in Italy. He ' J ' has been overseas since July, 1942 l .' serving in England, North Africa ( j : and Italy. Ml ',: Survivors include his wife, his son, Norman Dwight Jones, his H';;: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. 'Pi Jones, all of Enterprise; five fljj, brothers, Theone Jones, Pingree, t l Idaho; Marion Jones, Baggs, Wy-4; Wy-4; oming; Herman Jones, Los An-) An-) 1j; .. ;gele; Thane Jones, Enterprise; l;' ' three sisters, Mrs. Agnes Hune ;! of Veyo; Mrs. Hope Truman and J if Mrs.. Carita Staheli of Enterprise. 3 . A telegram from the War De-t De-t - partment reached Mr. and Mrs. f ' A. W. Gregerson late Wednesday, ; July 4, telling them their son, J '. . Sgt Eugene H. Gregerson had '. , (Continued on page eight) Casualties 'Continued from first page) '"- been seriously wounded in action at Mindanau, June 10, 1945, and that other information would be ' '; sent from the hospital where he . was located. : -; A letter written by Sgt Greg- S: erson, June 21, preceded the tele- -gram, assuring his parents that' he was making fine improve-ment improve-ment and had been moved to a rest area. He said he had been :i-much :i-much more fortunate than several i ' who were with him in the tough : -situation at Mindanau, and had --7-received the Purple Heart and ':-five ':-five points toward release. Only meager information is available regarding Pfc. Richard '' C. Prince, who is the husband of -Katheryn May Prince, formerly :- of St. George and now of Las -T-Vegas. The report said her ha-band ha-band had been wounded in action "-i ' at Okinawa. , -J |