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                Troup Tex R#2
            Dec 23 - 43

Dear John and Ida May

We rec a message from the Navy Dept this Morn. that my boy J. A. had been killed while in action and if his body was recovered it would be impossible to return it at present We do not know where he was at. he died trying to save others. He was a field Nurse for the Marines.