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![<i class="material-icons" data-template="memories-icon">stars</i><br/><strong>In Memory Of</strong><br />PFC Donald Lester Short, Marine Corps, PFC<br/>Served to 1944<br/>Born 9/19/1922<br/>Passed on 2/2/1944<br/><div class='remember-wall-long-description'>Owego Marine Is Drowning Victim. Pfc. Donald L. Short, a 21-year-old marine, was accidentally drowned in the Marshall Islands shortly after the invasion, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Short of Owego. He joined the marines July 18, 1942. Surviving besides his parents are three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd J. Casterline of Tioga Center and Mrs. Frank Short of Apalachin. [Source: The Evening Times (Sayre, PA), Fri. Apr. 21, 1944, pg. 9]
Donald is also memorialized in the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Hawaii.</div><a class='btn btn-primary btn-sm mt-2 remember-wall-toggle-long-description' onclick='initRememberWallToggleLongDescriptionBtn(this)'>Learn more</a>](https://wreathsblob.blob.core.windows.net/processed/ad7a04cd-62de-4a21-a6c0-e4d5238bc3e5_1400.jpg)
PFC Donald Lester Short, Marine Corps
Perry Smith Bogart, Army
Walter Shrauger, Navy
