Ivar Tveter
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 560908
February 23, 1927
in Minneapolis, MN
Karl Magnus Tveter
Pauline Gustava Tveter
Details unknown
Details unknown
March 20, 1944
in Minneapolis, MN
Joined 2/27/1945 from 24th Replacement Draft
Left (wounded) 3/4/1945 to hospital
July 30, 1945
Discharged, disability
2937 29th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota – home of parents, Karl & Pauline Tveter
Campaigns
Outfit: Baker Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines
Rank: Private
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
At some point between February 24 and February 28, 1945, Private Tveter was assigned to Baker Company, 24th Marines as a replacement rifleman. He would serve on the front lines for only a few days. Battalion muster rolls indicate that he was wounded and evacuated on March 4, 1945; a Marine Corps casualty card gives the date as March 5, with a diagnosis of combat fatigue. A Minneapolis newspaper would later give the date as March 9.
No matter the date, the result was the same: Private Tveter’s days in combat were over. He was evacuated from Iwo Jima and sent to Naval Hospital #10 at Aiea Heights, Pearl Harbor for evaluation and treatment; by May of 1945, he was back in the United States and convalescing at a facility near the Hunters Point Drydocks in San Francisco. On July 30, he was honorably discharged from a casual company at the Naval Air Station in Astoria, Oregon.
Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima
Citation
Service Stories
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Post-War Life
On July 30, 1945, Private Ivar Tveter was honorably discharged from a casual company at Naval Air Station Astoria, Oregon.
Tveter returned to Minneapolis, where he spent the rest of his long life. As a civilian, he worked for Wyeth Laboratories, participated in veterans groups and the Sons of Norway, and volunteered for the firing squad at military funerals at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. He married in 1951, and raised three daughters with his wife Vivian Rolstad Tveter.
