Robert Nelson Harris

Enlisted at Detroit, MI on 16 August 1943. Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with 7th Recruit Battalion; advanced infantry training with Company A, Infantry Battalion Training Center, Camp Elliott. Deployed to Hawaii in March 1944; on rolls of Transient Center, FMF Pacific through 8 April 1944, at which time transferred to Fourth Marine Division.

Joined Able Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Maui on 10 April 1944.

Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Important Events:
July 8, 1944 – wounded in action (no cause listed in casualty card; contemporary newspaper article states shot in arm by sniper); evacuated to field hospital.
July 12, 1944 – returned to duty

Campaign Narrative

Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Important Events:
August 1, 1944 – wounded in action (multiple shrapnel wounds, legs); evacuated to unknown vessel.

Campaign Narrative

Admitted to US Naval Hospital #10 at Aiea Heights, Hawaii, on 5 August 1944. Under treatment through 22 September 1944, at which time transferred to Naval Hospital on mainland. Convalescing at USNH San Leandro, California, approximately October 1944 – March 1945. Discharged from hospital to West Coast Reclassification & Redistribution Center on 28 March 1945.

Duty with Barracks Detachment, US Naval Training Center Great Lakes, IL, through 28 February 1946. Recommended for release from service for reasons of disability; approved and honorably discharged on 8 March 1946 with rank of corporal.