Jess Earl Harville
Marine Corps Regular | Service Number 313604
August 10, 1919
in Morristown, TN
William H. Harville (d. 1929)
Vesta (Clifton) Harville
later Mrs. Vesta Rogers
Details unknown
Plasterer
working for stepfather, W. H. Rogers
January 7, 1941
at Nashville, TN
August 25, 1943
from Camp Elliott
June 16, 1944
Killed in action at Saipan
June 16, 1944
Killed in action
434 Fourth North Street, Morristown, TN – home of mother, Mrs. Vesta Rogers
Service & Campaigns
Enlisted at Nashville, TN, on 7 January 1941; boot camp at Parris Island with Third Recruit Battalion. Additional instruction at the Training Center, MCB Quantico, through October 1941, at which time transferred to the Third Defense Battalion, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for duty with 3-inch antiaircraft group.
December 7, 1941 – participated in battle of Pearl Harbor.
Placed on temporary duty with First Defense Battalion at Johnston Island through spring of 1943. Returned to California in April 1943 for infantry training at TC Camp Elliott through August 1943.
Joined Baker Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Pearl Harbor on 25 August 1943.
Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 652 (Section Leader)
Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: Sergeant
MOS: 652 (Section Leader)
Important Events:
June 16, 1944 – killed in action (partially decapitated by an artillery shell); exact circumstances unknown.
Buried Plot 3, Row 2, Grave 454, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Saipan (June 16, 1944)
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