Staff Sergeant Robert McKinney
The TribuneSeymour, Indiana
Tuesday, February 15, 1944
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S/SGT. ROBERT McKINNEY
Memorial services will be held Sunday for Staff Sergeant Robert McKinney, age twenty-seven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil McKinney, of Freetown, killed in action in Italy January 13.
A former well known baseball pitcher for Freetown and North Vernon, he was chosen for seven months' duty with the British Commandos because of his accuracy with a machine gun and was slightly wounded in the raid at Dieppe, France. He was one of the first to go up the famous hill in North Africa during the invasion there and was fighting with the infantry in Italy when killed.
His parents fear that another son, Sgt. Emil McKinney, is now engaged in fighting on the beachhead south of Rome.