Marine Pvt. John McRee Smith, 19, has been wounded in action in the Pacific, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Iredell McRee Smith, 4324 Forest Park avenue, St. Louis, have been informed.
Before he enlisted in the Marines, Pvt. Smith was employed by the Post-Dispatch.
His brother, Lt. James Iredell Smith, who is a prisoner of war of the German government, is mentioned in today’s dispatches as having received the Air Medal.
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