Harry Malley

US Navy Reserve | Service Number 853 64 97

Born

June 3, 1919
in Detroit, MI

Parents

Henry Malley
Elke “Anna” (Barash) Malley

School

Senn High School (1938)

Pre-War Employment

Salesman
Liggett Drugstores

Entered Service

July 24, 1943
at Chicago, IL

Joined First Battalion

April 28, 1944
from Replacement Battalion, VAC

Left First Battalion

July 25, 1944
Killed in action at Tinian

Left Service

July 25, 1944
Killed in action

Home Address and Next of Kin

5000 North Troy Street, Chicago, IL – home of wife, Mrs. Gloria Malley

Service & Campaigns

Before joining battalion

Trained with Company B, Field Medical Schools Battalion, Camp Elliott.

Saipan

Outfit: HQ/1/24th Marines
Rank: Hospital Apprentice, First Class
MOS: Corpsman

Campaign Narrative

Tinian

Outfit: HQ/1/24th Marines
Rank: Hospital Apprentice, First Class
MOS: Corpsman
Important Events:
July 25, 1944 – mortally wounded in action (gunshot, left shoulder); evacuated to USS J. Franklin Bell, where he ultimately died.

Campaign Narrative

Individual Decorations

Medal
Purple Heart

Campaign
Tinian (July 25, 1944)

Citation
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Service Stories

Please share a story if you knew this Marine.

We had a corpsman, a Jew, that the fellows liked, but like a lot of good men he was killed. He had just received word that his wife had a son a couple of days before he was killed.

Walter E. Dodd Corpsman, 1/24th Marines

Harry is buried in Waldheim Jewish Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

Gallery

Malley as a senior at Senn High School, 1938.

Selective Service registration, 1940.