From the Dallas Morning News April 6, 1948
Funeral services for Pvt James Edward Cotton, age 19, Dallas Marine killed in action on Guam July 25, 1944, will be held at 2:30 pm Tuesday in Wildwood Chapel at Restland Memorial Park.
Private Cotton was born in Dallas and lived on Route 6. Prior to his enlistment in the Marine Corps in the summer of 1943, he worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio.
He was a member of Company K of the 22d Marine Corps Regiment.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Susie M Cotton of Dallas; four brothers, Joseph Cotton of Akron, Robert Cotton of Sherman, John Cotton and William Cotton, both of Dallas, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Lawson and Miss Doris Cotton, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Adell Hartis of Akron.
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You will note that he was killed on July 25, 1944 in Guam and the funeral services were April 1948.
There was a battle to reclaim Guam from the Japanese. D-Day was July 21, 1944.
His name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, HI and at the newly completed War in the Pacific National Historic Park, Memorial Wall which is located at the Asan Bay Overlook on Guam. The wall contains the names of 16,142 Chamorro and American casualties who suffered or died during the war on Guam.