Robert Leon Hunget
"Bob"
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 485262
April 7, 1922
in Spring Hill, IA
Roscoe Simmons Hunget
Olive Josephine (Sarchett) Hunget
Details unknown
Meat packer
Iowa Packing Company
November 2, 1942
at Des Moines, IA
March 26, 1943
from Camp Elliott, CA
June 15, 1944
Killed in action at Saipan
June 15, 1944
Killed in action
Norwalk, Iowa – home of parents, Roscoe & Olive Hunget
Service & Campaigns
Enlisted in Des Moines, Iowa, on 2 November 1942.
Detailed to the battalion rear echelon on 11 January 1944. Assisted with movement of records, supplies, and belongings from Camp Pendleton, California, to Camp Maui, Hawaii. Present when combat echelon returned from Roi-Namur in February 1944.
Promoted to corporal on 3 March 1944.
Outfit: HQ/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 055 (Clerk)
Important Events:
June 15, 1944 – killed by a heavy artillery shell during night bombardment.
June 18, 1944 – buried in Plot 2, Row 1, Grave 174, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery.
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Saipan (June 15, 1944)
Citation
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My best friend was killed there on Saipan. [We were in a foxhole] and there were rats from the sugarcane fields there. Bob says, “I can’t stand this, I’m getting out of the hole,” and moved over… man, he got a direct hit.
