The names of two more young men were added over the weekend to Scioto Co's war casualty list of those killed or missing while fighting for their country.

Mrs. Lenora L. Craycraft of Otway Rt. 1 received a telegram from the war department that her son, Pfc. Leve F. Dillow, 21, was killed while in action December 30 in Italy.

Second Lt. Edward F. Neu, 27, a navigator on a Flying Fortress, husband of Mrs. Marie Sturgill Neu, 638 Sycamore Street, Sciotoville, is missing in action since December 31 while on a bombing mission over France.

Pfc. Dillow was last heard from in a letter written December 4 and received by his mother late in December.  At that time he was in the best of health and sent his mother a pay check received by him after his arrival in Italy.  He had been employed in a war plant in Springfield prior to entering the service and the check was from his former employers.  In his letter he asked his mother to have the check cashed and put the money in a bank for him.

The young soldier was a member of the U.S. Artillery and entered the service December 28, 1942.  He was assigned overseas August 9, 1943, being sent first to north Africa and from there to Italy.

He was born at Scioto Furnace December 10, 1922.  His father Leve Dillow, Sr. died Feb. 24, 1924.  Pfc. Dillow attended Lombardsville Union twp. elementary school and served at a CCC camp in Utah prior to taking the war job in Springfield.

He is survived by his mother, a brother, Henry Dillow of Springfield and three sisters.  Mrs. Earl Seaman, and Mrs. Clotine Deemer, both of near Henley, and Mrs. Daisy Craycraft of Wheelersburg.

Lt. Neu is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neu, Sr., 638 Sycamore St. Sciotoville.

He apparently was on his second bombing mission when lost because his wife received a letter written by him December 28 and received late January 7, saying that he had completed his first bombing mission and was preparing for his second mission.

Lt. Neu entered the Army August 10, 1942, and the following February entered a navigation school at Selman Field, Monroe, La.,

On August 14, 1942, he was graduated from the school and awarded the silver wings of a navigator and his commission as a second lieutenant.  He was sent overseas November 11.

The young navigator was born in New Boston, September 15, 1916, and was graduated from Minford High School in the class of 1934.

Besides his wife, he has a daughter, Lois Kaye, 24 months, his parents and these brothers and sisters, Frank Jr. and Carl of New Boston, William of Sciotoville Rt. 2, John Neu of Cleveland, Mrs. Nettie Dorich of Cleveland, and Mrs. Clara Gregory of New Boston.

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Updated Information

Mrs. Linda Haney, niece of Lt. Neu, graciously provided us with additional information about her uncle:

"Uncle Eddie's plane was shot down by the Germans.  He managed to bail out and escape injury.  I believe he was in France at the time, because members of the French Resistance helped him escape.  I know they hid him in a barn for several months before they could get him into unoccupied territory.  He tells about having nothing but potatoes and cabbage to eat.  One of the Frenchmen who helped him escape came to visit him in the mid 1970's.  The Portsmouth Times newspaper did quite a nice story about the visit."