Donald Freeman More

"Don"

Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 960922

Born

November 15, 1919
in Hot Springs, MT

Parents

Harold Buckingham More
Agnes Lorna (Freeman) More

School

Hot Springs High School

Pre-War Employment

Myler Lumber Company

Entered Service

June 16, 1944
at Butte, MT

Joined First Battalion

February 27, 1945
from 24th Replacement Draft

Left First Battalion

March 5, 1945
Killed in action at Iwo Jima

Left Service

March 5, 1945
Killed in action

Home Address and Next of Kin

Box 213, Hot Springs, MT – address of wife, Mrs. Bertha (Eley) Moore, and two daughters (Carol and Lynda).

Service & Campaigns

Before joining battalion

Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with Sixth Recruit Battalion. Outposted to casual company, Recruit Depot. Transferred to the Seventh Training Battalion, Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton for instruction as an anti-tank gunner. Assigned duty with the 24th Replacement Draft, attached to the Fourth Marine Division, for the Iwo Jima operation.

Iwo Jima

Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private
MOS: 610 (Antitank Gunner)
Important Events:
February 27, 1945 – joined from 24th Replacement Draft
March 5, 1945 – killed in action (shrapnel wounds) when knee mortar shell landed in his foxhole
March 6, 1945 – buried in Plot 1, Row 23, Grave 1130, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery

Campaign Narrative

Individual Decorations

Medal
Purple Heart

Campaign
Iwo Jima (March 5, 1945)

Citation

We underwent some [knee] mortar fire – several or half a dozen rounds that came in on our position. I received some fragments in my right wrist and also in my right hip. Several rounds landed among some other guys we had up there, and a friend of mine who came out with the 24th Replacement Draft, by the name of Don More, was seriously wounded. When I went up to see the corpsman, he was tending to Don. This round, it must have been a knee mortar, landed in his foxhole, and he tried to throw it out, and it exploded. One of his hands was just torn to pieces, and he was in shock. Apparently he had received fragments in his body because a short time later he died.