Charles Thomas Etty
Marine Corps Regular | Service Number 821337
September 8, 1923
in Pine Castle, FL
Robert Christopher Etty
Doris Eugenia (Johns) Etty (d. 1938)
Details unknown
Margaret Ann Grocery Stores
April 14, 1944
at Atlanta, GA
August 16, 1944
from Service Battalion, FMF Pacific
Killed in action at Iwo Jima
February 20, 1945
Killed in action
Oak Ridge Road, Pine Castle, FL – home of father, Mr. Robert Eddy
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at Parris Island with Fifth Recruit Battalion; outposted to Camp Lejeune, NC. Transferred to Fifth Replacement Draft for transit to Hawaii; temporary duty with Service Battalion, Transient Center, FMF Pacific.
Assigned to Able Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Maui on 16 August 1944.
Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: PFC
MOS: 746 (BARman)
Important Events:
February 20, 1945 – killed in action (shrapnel, head); exact circumstances unknown.
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima (Feb. 20, 1945)
Citation
Service Stories
Please share a story if you knew this Marine.
I am a voluteer for Stories Behind the Stars (SBTS), Florida division, whose role it is to write a biography, a warm story, of the young men of Florida who lost their lives in WW2. I part of a huge project to write the story of all Americans who lost their lives in that war. It is my honor to write a story for FOLD.COM in partnership with SBTS on Charles Thomas Etty.
I admit that aside from some family pictures, reading family obituary records, and a study of the USMC quarterly Muster Rolls from April 1944 through January 1945, I have scant information to write as full as story as I believe is deserved. I have read, repeatedly, the account written here of the day of his death and with permission, and proper attribution, I would like to include portions of this very vivid tale in his story.
I thank you for taking the time to consider this, and whatever information you can share as well
Kind regards, Teresa Scott Jacobson