Kenneth Newman Boyd

Boot camp at Parris Island with Fifth Recruit Battalion. Outposted to Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia.

To 9th Defense Battalion at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 22 July 1942; assigned to Special Weapons Group. Served with Second Guard Company and 20mm Battery, 13th Defense Battalion, through July 1943.

Transferred to 25th Marines at Camp Elliott, California, late summer 1943. Assigned to H&S Battery, Fourth Special Weapons Battalion on 12 October 1943.

Participated in Operation Flintlock at Kwajalein atoll, 31 January – 5 February 1944.

Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: PFC
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
July 7, 1944 – sick (diagnosis unknown) and evacuated to field hospital
July 9, 1944 – returned to duty

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Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: PFC
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events: 
July 27, 1944 – slightly wounded in action; cause unknown, not evacuated

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Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: PFC
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
March 3, 1945 – wounded in action (mortar fragments, chest); evacuated to USS James O’Hara. Admitted to US Naval Base Hospital #18 (Guam) on 8 March 1945.

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Transferred to US Naval Hospital #10 (Aiea Heights, Oahu) on 1 April 1945.

Discharged for disability on 17 October 1945. Promoted to corporal.