. Bell telephone magazine . a wife and three^oung sons. Pfc. Thomas A. Duffey,station installer of the Illinois Bell:ompany at La Grange, a member)f 101st Airborne Division, has beennissing in action since December 3. Generally, little is known about:he deaths of the men killed in they have been serving where:asualties were heavy, sometimesvhere only a few returned, and thoselave not infrequently been reluctanto speak of their comrades who are;one. At least some of the circumstancesire known in the loss of Navy EnsignLloyd M. Faver, technical operatorn the Overseas Division, Lon
. Bell telephone magazine . a wife and three^oung sons. Pfc. Thomas A. Duffey,station installer of the Illinois Bell:ompany at La Grange, a member)f 101st Airborne Division, has beennissing in action since December 3. Generally, little is known about:he deaths of the men killed in they have been serving where:asualties were heavy, sometimesvhere only a few returned, and thoselave not infrequently been reluctanto speak of their comrades who are;one. At least some of the circumstancesire known in the loss of Navy EnsignLloyd M. Faver, technical operatorn the Overseas Division, Long LinesDepartment, at Oakland, California,vhich took place in a combat zone—ilthough not through enemy action.)n March 11, he and two other men00k supplies, purchased by a collec-ion among his shipmates, in a whale-»oat to a colony of orphans on ansland off the west coast of delivering the supplies to thenissionary in charge, they started>ack to the cruiser St. Paul. Theylever arrived, and after a two-day. Sgt. William Murphy, USMC, lineman with the Illinois Bell Telephone Company: Bronze Star medal search were presumed lost in theheavy seas. Fifteen Bell System men have beenreported as wounded in action, withPurple Heart decorations in eachcase. One of these, Pfc. Wallace , station installer of theIllinois Bell company at Rock Island,has fought with his Army field artil-lery unit from near Pusan to north ofthe 38th Parallel and has partic-ipated in three major river wounded, he has been awardedthe Purple Heart and Oak LeafCluster. All o{ the other men reported havebeen members of the First MarineDivision. In some instances, afterbeing wounded more than once, theyspent days without shelter in tem-peratures far below zero in the longretreat from the Chosin reservoir. One of these was Pvt. James , from the Western Electric 98 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMEF Companys Speedway Shops in In-dianapolis, who remained in actionwhen fir
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