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Carl Robert McCracken

BRANCH OF SERVICE
U.S. Marine Corps

HOMETOWN
Paoli, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American
ACTIVITY DURING WWII
ENTERED SERVICE JUNE 1942 AND SERVED UNTIL DECEMBER 1945. RECRUIT TRAINING AT MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. RECEIVED TRAINING AT TREASURE ISLAND NAVAL BASE, CALIFORNIA AND CAMP ELLIOT, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. WAS IN THE PACIFIC THEATERS OF OPERATION WITH THE 3RD AMPHIBIAN CORPS, FLEET MARINE FORCE. CAMPAIGNS INCLUDED SOLOMON ISLANDS, MARIANA, PALAU ISLANDS, AND BATTLE OF OKINAWA. OCCUPATION DUTY IN TIENTSIN, CHINA. PLATOON SERGEANT.