Although not an OBITUARY per se, this seems like the appropriate place to include this article. 

Unfortunately, no death dates are indicated, however, it may help someone put an elusive relative 'to rest'. 

Please forgive any errors in transcription, many names are blurred.  Corrections are welcome.

June 28, 1946 ~ Cumberland Evening Times

52 Garrett Co. GIs Carried On War Dead List

War Department Report Does Not Include Casualties In Navy and Marine Corps

Fifty-two Garrett county soldiers are listed among the nation's war dead on the consolidated postwar casualty report issued by the War Department yesterday.  These do not include casualties among Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
The report contains data available on Army personnel who were killed or died or became and remained missing, between the President's declaration of unlimited emergency on May 27, 1941, and January 31, 1946.
The Garrett county list of 52 was increased by at least one yesterday when Pfc. Stanley Holliday, of Grantsville, was declared dead by the War Department.  He had been reported missing in the ETO for more than two years.
On the War Department's list individual soldier names are followed by capital letters indicating the "type of casualty" they belong to.
A soldier who was killed in action, whether at the front or by enemy action in the rear areas, or if a prisoner of war, whether by air bombardment of his prison camp or by being shot while escaping, is designated "KIA".
Soldiers who were wounded and lated died are marked "DOW" - died of wounds.
Those who suffered fatal battle injuries, as opposed to wounds, in combat areas, and died in a line-of-duty status, are designated "DOI" - died of injuries.
Other line-of-duty deaths, such as from sickness or accidents, outside combat, including training and maneuver deaths, are listed "DNB" - died non-battle.
Individuals who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are designated "FOD" - finding of death.

The War Department's list of 52 Garrett county soldier dead follows:

Adams, James D.  ~ DOW                  Barnard, John C.  ~ DNB             Bateman, Edward A.  ~ KIA
Beckman, Kenneth F ~ KIA                Bever, Howard E.  ~ DNB            Bever, Richard E.  ~ DOW
Bittinger, Harland E.  ~ KIA               Bowers, Vernon, D.  ~ DOW        Bowman, Stuart R.  ~ KIA
Brock, Alvin G.  ~ KIA                       Butler. Davis R  ~ KIA                Butler, Raymond E.  ~ DOW

Casteel (?), Carroll W.  ~ FOD            Coddington, Mason R.  ~ KIA       Cooper, David T.  ~ KIA
Cuppett, Thomas G.  ~ KIA               Custer, Clyde R.  ~ DNB             

Dawson, Cecil D.  ~ KIA                    Dixon, Clude W.  ~DOW            

Farris, Paul R.  ~ FOD                       Fike, David Jr.  ~ FOD                 Flanagan, Ray B.  ~ KIA
Frantz, Willis T.  ~ DNB                    Friend, Raymond C.  ~ DNB

Gammon, Archer T.  ~ KIA                Goehringer (?), Carroll E.  ~ KIA    Gower, James H.  ~ KIA

Helbig, Frederick W.  ~ M(issing?)      Hetrick, Clyde L.  ~ KIA                Hoye, Geoffrey, E  ~ DOW

Keller, Charles E.  ~ DOW                 Kitzmiller, Harold W.  ~ KIA

McCrobie, Lester L.  ~ DNB               Milavec(?), William  ~ KIA            

Nair, Thomas F.  ~ KIA                    Nazelrod, Calvin E.  ~ KIA            Nicholson, Robert A.  ~ KIA

Quarle, James E.  ~ KIA

Savage, Burlton H.  ~ DOW               Savage, Irvin E  ~ KIA                Savage, Odie A.  ~ KIA
Schmidt, Luther M.  ~ KIA            Schwinabart(?), James F.  ~ DOW     Selders, Keith E.  ~ KIA
Shadrick, Thomas M.  ~ KIA              Shaffer, Kenneth G.  ~ KIA          Shillingburg, Harold ~  KIA
Silbaugh, Wilbur C.  ~ KIA                Smith, Earle F.  ~ KIA                 Snyder, Adam  ~ DOW
Spiker, Edward A.  ~ KIA

Wise, June W.  ~ KIA

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