Henry Shank Musser
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 854877
May 28, 1920
in Elizabethtown, PA
Abram Eshelman Musser
Ruth (Shenk) Musser (d. 1926)
Elizabethtown High School (year)
College (year)
Weaver Manufacturing Company
April 19, 1943
at Philadelphia, PA
February 27, 1945
from 30th Replacement Draft
March 8, 1945
Killed in action at Iwo Jima
March 8, 1945
Killed in action
44½ Market Street, Elizabethtown, PA – address of wife, Mrs. Betty (Broucht) Musser
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at Parris Island with 13th Recruit Battalion. To PFC upon graduation; outposted to Marine Barracks, Naval Air Station Cape May, New Jersey, on 6 July 1943. Duty at Cape May through October 1944, at which time transferred to 30th Replacement Draft for deployment overseas attached to Fourth Marine Division.
Joined Baker Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines as a battle replacement on Iwo Jima.
Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 522 (Guard)
Important Events:
February 27, 1945 – joined from 30th Replacement Draft
March 8, 1945 – killed in action (shrapnel wounds, left shoulder); exact circumstances unknown
March 11, 1945 – buried in Plot 1, Row 29, Grave 1433, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima (March 8, 1945)
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