Albert Merrill Fellows

Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 555931

Born

June 20, 1926
in Saginaw, MI

Parents

Sidney Milton Fellows
Barbara (Mertl) Fellows

School

Details unknown

Pre-War Employment

Conmey Randall Lumber Company

Entered Service

January 20, 1944
at Detroit, MI

Joined First Battalion

August 16, 1944
from FMF Transient Center

Left First Battalion

March 2, 1945
Killed in action at Iwo Jima

Left Service

March 2, 1945
Killed in action

Home Address and Next of Kin

601 S. Henry Street, Bay City, MI – address of parents, Sidney & Barbara Fellows

Service & Campaigns

Before joining battalion

Enlisted 20 January 1944, placed on inactive duty.

Called to active duty 25 March 1944. Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with Second Recruit Battalion; outposted to Fourth Replacement Draft for transit overseas. Joined Charlie Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Maui on 16 August 1944.

Iwo Jima

Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Important Events:
March 2, 1945 – killed in action (shrapnel wound, head) during attack on Turkey Knob
March 11, 1945 – buried in Plot 1, Row 28, Grave 1376, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery

Campaign Narrative

Individual Decorations

Medal
Purple Heart

Campaign
Iwo Jima (March 2, 1945)

Citation

C Company was up around in a Japanese strong point called Turkey Knob, which was a communications center. The Japanese had a big concrete pillbox there, and apparently, this was where they had their island communications system, probably radio and telephones, and that. And the damn pillbox was practically impenetrable with anything we had with us. I think this was the day that my friend Al Fellows got killed. He was a very friendly young man, a BARman in our platoon.