Cecil Floyd Hendershot

Enlisted at Salt Lake City, Utah, 8 May 1943. Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with 381st Recruit Platoon; qualified as sharpshooter and bayonet expert. Outposted to Infantry Battalion, Camp Elliott, California, for advanced training. Assigned to Able Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Pendleton on 26 August 1943.

Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
February 2, 1944 – slightly wounded in action (arm and shoulder); “able to continue with his company for 24 hours until island captured.”

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (BARman)
Important Events:
Received citation for Saipan:

For excellent service in the line of his duties while serving as a Browning Automatic Rifleman during the invasion and capture of Saipan, Marianas Islands, 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944. His initiative and skill in the operation of his weapon and devotion to duty contributed greatly to the success of his unit in the operation and aided materially in the annihilation of the enemy.

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (BARman)
Important Events:
July 30, 1944 – slightly wounded in action (cause not stated); not evacuated.

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 737 (Rifle NCO)
Important Events:
March 6, 1945 – critically wounded in action (shrapnel wounds, multiple); evacuated to an unknown Army medical facility.
March 7, 1945 – died of wounds. Buried in Plot 1, Row 24, Grave 1161, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima.

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