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Richard George Stebbins

NAME:
Richard George Stebbins
NICKNAME:
SERVICE NUMBER:
931248
HOME OF RECORD:
1384 North Prairie Street, Galesburg, IL
NEXT OF KIN:
Mother, Mrs. Lucille Rush
DATE OF BIRTH:
11/4/1925
SERVICE DATES:
1/10/1944 – 1945
DATE OF DEATH:
10/20/2019
CAMPAIGNUNITMOSRATERESULT
Iwo JimaHQ/1/24641PFCWIA
INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS:
Purple Heart
LAST KNOWN RANK:
Private First Class

 

Richard Stebbins with carbine and field pack, Camp Maui 1944.
Stebbins recuperating from his Iwo Jima wound, 1945.

Photographs courtesy Emma Stebbins.

2 thoughts on “Richard G. Stebbins”

  1. Dick Stebbins is my father in law and is still alive. He will be 90 in a month. He does not talk about his service, although we do know that his best friend in the marines was killed next to him when they hit the water to the beach at Iwo Jima. He is a very quiet man with a deep scar on his leg; a “souvenir “of his service. I wonder often what he remembers about that time.

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