Patrick Thomas Organ
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 502419
May 28, 1923
in Manhattan, NY
Patrick Organ
Anna (Cusack) Organ
Hempstead High School
Grumman Aircraft
(Bethpage, NY)
November 20, 1942
at New York, NY
September 18, 1944
from FMF Transient Center
March 2, 1945
Killed in action at Iwo Jima
March 2, 1945
Killed in action
Braxton Street, Hempstead, NY – address of parents, Patrick & Anna Organ
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at Parris Island with 10th Recruit Battalion. Outposted to Training Camp New River, for service with Headquarters Company. Duty as truck driver from spring – winter 1943.
On rolls of 39th Replacement Draft as of January 1944; departed for Pacific Theater on 23 January via USS Clay. Assigned to Headquarters Company, Service Battalion, Transient Center (FMF Pacific) as a carpenter, spring of 1944.
Transferred to Able Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Maui on 18 September 1944.
Outfit: A/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
March 2, 1945 – killed in action, cause and circumstances unknown
March 10, 1945 – buried in Plot 1, Row 26, Grave 1298, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima (March 2, 1945)
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