Outfit: Able Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 653 (Squad Leader)
Important Events:
June 18, 1944 – led combat patrol resulting in 12 enemy KIA and 28 prisoners of war; received Bronze Star Medal.
June 22, 1944 – seriously wounded in action (gunshot wounds chest and neck; paralysis brachial plexus) and evacuated for treatment
Campaign Narrative
I love my grandpa