Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beach, Russell Dale 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net August 20, 2014, 2:57 pm Belding Banner-News, 12 Jul 1945 Sad Message Received By Mother Of Soldier. Mrs. Gladys Beach of 410 E. Center street received a telegram from the war department late Tuesday afternoon July 3rd, saying that her son, Pfc. Russell Dale Beach, 27, had been killed in action on Cebu in the Philippines, June 9th. Late letters received from him were in May when he wrote from a base hospital but the last one said he had returned to combat. He had been in service since February 26, 1942 and went overseas the following August without having a furlough. He was formerly in a headquarters Co. and served in the post exchange. In January he wrote that he was still in the exchange but there was not a great deal to do and soon afterward he was transferred in the Americal division where he saw much hard fighting. Pfc. Beach had been awarded a combat star for his part in the campaign for the Empress Augusta Bay perimeter on Bougainville, northern Solomons, last year. He was born Nov. 1, 1917 at Orleans, the son of the late Olen Beach and Mrs. Gladys Beach. The family moved to Belding when he was six years old and this city has since been their home. He leaves besides his mother, three sisters: Mrs. Arthur Tygesen, Mrs. Harold McQueen and Miss Donelda Beach; two brothers, Alfred, who has an honorable discharge from the army, and Charles, who has been at home on furlough from Camp Hood, Tex., but who left Tuesday for Fort Riley, Kan., for advanced instruction. All reside in Belding. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/beach26880nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb