Peter Gulla
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 473200
January 22, 1922
in New York, NY
Philip Gulla
Angelina (Barbetta) Gulla
Hempstead High School (1940)
Storekeeper
War Department at Mitchel Field
October 13, 1942
at New York, NY
December 12, 1942
from HQ Battalion, New River
October 27, 1945
to Marine Barracks, Bainbridge, MD
November, 1945
Honorably discharged
Braxton Street, East Hempstead, NY – home of parents, Philip and Angelina Gulla.
Service & Campaigns
Enlisted 13 October 1942 at New York, NY; boot camp at Parris Island with Fourth Recruit Battalion. Platoon transferred to New River, North Carolina to complete training. Outposted to Charlie Company, First Separate Battalion (Reinforced) as company clerk on 12 December 1942.
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 055 (Clerk)
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 405 (Clerk Typist)
Important Events:
June 22, 1944 – wounded in action (gunshot, hip) while helping to transport other wounded Marines.
Evacuated to USS LaSalle on June 23; transferred to USS Intrepid July 4. Arrived at Naval Hospital #10, Aeia Heights, Hawaii, on July 27.
Gulla was under treatment at Naval Hospital #10 and did not participate in the Tinian campaign.
Corporal Gulla returned to duty on 24 November 1944, and was transferred from Charlie Company to Battalion Headquarters as a clerk (MOS 055).
He was assigned to the battalion’s rear echelon at Camp Maui and did not participate in the Iwo Jima campaign.
Returned to United States with the 24th Marines in early October, 1945. Transferred to Marine Barracks, Bainbridge, Maryland on 27 October. Honorably discharged in November 1945.
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