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| | LAFD, First War Casualty, John M. Randall Killed in Crash of Plane, April 19, 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | JOHN M. Los Angeles City Fire Department suffered it first war casualty when Staff Sergeant John M. Randall lost his life near Shreveport, La. The army bomber in which he was serving as bombardier-navigator, crashed while on a training flight from Barksdale Field where he was stationed. |
 | | John Randall was born February 4, 1917, ironically, during the early fury of World War I. He is survived by his father, three brothers, and there sisters, most of them living in the Middle Western states. |
 | | And John, a typical rookie, took it and didn't say much one way or the other; he just humored you, although you didn't know you were being humored. |
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