Corp. Raymond Arthur Barker, USMC-- Part 1

From Find-A-Grave

CPL Raymond Arthur Barker

Born:  20 Dec. 1920, Delavan, Wis.
Death: 20 Nov. 1943, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati

Burial:  Spring Grove Cemetery, Delavan, Wis.  Lot B, Block 5, Section 0

A rather tall man at 6'4".

Corp. Ray Barker Killed in Action.

Delavan--  Corp. Raymond Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Barker, former residents here, was killed in action at Tarawa, Nov. 20, according to information just recently received by his parents from the war department.  Corp. Barker had previously been reported missing.

He participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a raider in a medium tank battalion.

Born Dec. 20, 1920, at the Barker farm home, near Delavan, Barker left here during his early youth with his parents, who moved to Evanston, Illinois.  Surviving besides his parents, are two sisters, Mrs S.H. Wright, Chicago, and Mrs. J.A. Gibas, Denver, and a brother , ElbridgeS. Barker, Chicago.

Cpl. Barker has a cenotaph  in the Honolulu Memorial.  A cenotaph is a structure erected in honor of someone whose remains are elsewhere.

--GreGen

Sycamore Woman in Civil Air Patrol Out of Evanston

From the March 22, 2017, MidWeek "Looking Back."

1942, 75 Years Ago.

"Miss Esther Mae Nesbitt of Sycamore is now a member of the Chicago unit of the Civil Air Patrol which has military training each week in Evanston and is made up of private patrols flying from Sky Harbor airport northwest of Evanston.

"Miss Nesbitt has had previous training this winter at San Antonio, Texas."

The Civil Air Patrol hurt German U-boats operating off the U.S. coast as they kept watch and reported their location to military forces.

--GreGen