140 Have Made Supreme Sacrifice In Muscatine Area In War Against Axis Powers; Many reported wounded.
The cost of war runs high!
Word of the victory in Europe today brought a feeling of happiness and relief to thousands of families in the Muscatine area, but for others there were only sad memories. And for those who have sons, husbands, brothers or other relatives, fighting against the Japs in the second phase of the big world-wide conflagration the period of rejoicing was less pronounced.
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The names of those who have made the supreme sacrifice in the World War No. 2, compiled from records maintained by The Journal, follow:
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Staff Sgt. Arthur D. Fitch, husband of Mrs. Evelyn Fitch of Tipton, killed September of 1944 in a train wreck at Terre Haute, Ind.
Source: Muscatine Journal, Victory In Europe Edition, Monday, May 7, 1945
Arthur Delbert Fitch was born June 8, 1919 to Edward W. Evelyn Reeve Fitch. He died Sept. 14, 1944 and is buried in Masonic Cemetery, Terre Haute, IN.
Sgt. Fitch served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a flight engineer on a B-24 with the 484th Bomb Group, 826th Bomb Squadron. He was killed when the train he was traveling from Chicago, IL to Miami, FL collided head on with another train.
Source: ancestry.com
