Glenn Edgar Doster

Enlisted at Cleveland, OH, on 25 August 1942. Boot camp at Parris Island and New River with the Sixth Separate Recruit Battalion; outposted to Headquarters Company, TC New River.

Joined First Separate Battalion (Reinf0rced) at New River on 25 October 1942.

Outfit: D/1/24th Marines (1st machine gun platoon)
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 504 (Ammo carrier, machine gun)

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines (machine gun platoon)
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 504 (Ammo carrier, machine gun)

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines (machine gun platoon)
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 504 (Ammo carrier, machine gun)
Important Events:
July 25, 1944 – awarded Silver Star Medal for actions on this date.

The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Glenn E. Doster (MCSN: 448508), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as Gunner of a Machine Gun Crew of Company A, First Battalion, Twenty-fourth Marines, FOURTH Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Tinian, Mariana Islands, the morning of 25 July 1944. When his unit was being subjected to an aggressive hostile counterattack and was receiving heavy fire from an enemy machine gun only fifty yards away, Private First Class Doster remained steadfast at his post and, although the hostile bullets were hitting the sandbags around his gun, continued to deliver rapid and accurate fire which annihilated the crew of the enemy gun. By his valiant action, he succeeded in killing over forty of the Japanese. Private First Class Doster’s courage, determination and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

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Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 600 (Machine gun NCO)
Important Events:
February 25, 1945 – wounded in action (gunshot, right chest); evacuated to USS Dickens.

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Admitted to US Army Station Hospital #176 (Saipan) on 1 March 1945. Under treatment through  23 March, at which time discharged from hospital for return to duty. Rejoined Able Company at Camp Maui on 12 April 1945.

On 19 April 1945, admitted to V Amphibious Corps Hospital as “sick.” Under treatment through 7 October 1945; released from hospital to rejoin Able Company for transit back to United States. Transferred to USMTC Bainbridge, MD, on 27 October 1945, and honorably discharged from there on 6 November.