Wallace Augustus Lee
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 922583
January 19, 1926
in Harlan, KY
James Charles Lee
Hattie Jeanette (Beams) Lee
Details unknown
Detials unknown
February 14, 1944
Location unknown
February 27, 1945
from 24th Replacement Draft
April 8, 1945
to Weapons Company, 24th Marines
June 7, 1946
Honorably discharged
Louisville, KY – address of father, Mr. J. C. Lee
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with Seventh Recruit Battalion. Outposted to Company E, Infantry Battalion, Training Center Camp Elliott for instruction as anti-tank gunner. Assigned to 24th Replacement Draft for deployment overseas attached to the Fourth Marine Division.
Joined Charlie Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines as a battle replacement on Iwo Jima.
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private
MOS: 610 (Anti-tank gunner)
Important Events:
February 27, 1945 – joined from 24th Replacement Draft
On 8 April 1945, transferred to Regimental Weapons Company, 24th Marines at Camp Maui. Duty with RW/24 through October 1945, at which time transferred to Ordnance Company, Sixth Service Depot, Oahu.
In January 1946, admitted US Naval Hospital Oakland, California, for treatment. Transferred to Marine Barracks, Naval Proving Ground Dahlgren, Virginia, 26 April 1946. Honorably discharged on 7 June 1946.
Wallace died on August 18, 1977, and is buried in Oaklawn-Pleasant View Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky
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