World War II casualty During a Mopping up operation on Iwo Jima he was killed by a Japanese sniper.
a Marine private first class, died March 2, 1945, of wounds suffered on Iwo Jima. He was 21. Grove, a 1942 graduate of Omaha Central High School, was one of the few athletes to receive four letters — baseball, football, basketball and track — in one year. He also wrestled for Central. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 after attending Northwestern University for a year. At Northwestern, he played on the freshman football team.
Grove received boot training in San Diego, and was transferred to the Fifth Marine Division after the unit with which he was training as a machine gun raider was disbanded because of changed battle conditions. He had gone overseas in October 1944. In his first action, he fought in an invasion of Iwo Jima beginning Feb. 19, 1945. Grove was killed by a shrapnel wound to the neck in the fight to take Hill 362A, according to a history compiled by Central High School student Michael Walsh.
A brother, First Lt. H. James Grove, Jr. served in the European Theater
a Marine private first class, died March 2, 1945, of wounds suffered on Iwo Jima. He was 21. Grove, a 1942 graduate of Omaha Central High School, was one of the few athletes to receive four letters — baseball, football, basketball and track — in one year. He also wrestled for Central. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 after attending Northwestern University for a year. At Northwestern, he played on the freshman football team.
Grove received boot training in San Diego, and was transferred to the Fifth Marine Division after the unit with which he was training as a machine gun raider was disbanded because of changed battle conditions. He had gone overseas in October 1944. In his first action, he fought in an invasion of Iwo Jima beginning Feb. 19, 1945. Grove was killed by a shrapnel wound to the neck in the fight to take Hill 362A, according to a history compiled by Central High School student Michael Walsh.
A brother, First Lt. H. James Grove, Jr. served in the European Theater
World War II casualty During a Mopping up operation on Iwo Jima he was killed by a Japanese sniper.
a Marine private first class, died March 2, 1945, of wounds suffered on Iwo Jima. He was 21. Grove, a 1942 graduate of Omaha Central High School, was one of the few athletes to receive four letters — baseball, football, basketball and track — in one year. He also wrestled for Central. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 after attending Northwestern University for a year. At Northwestern, he played on the freshman football team.
Grove received boot training in San Diego, and was transferred to the Fifth Marine Division after the unit with which he was training as a machine gun raider was disbanded because of changed battle conditions. He had gone overseas in October 1944. In his first action, he fought in an invasion of Iwo Jima beginning Feb. 19, 1945. Grove was killed by a shrapnel wound to the neck in the fight to take Hill 362A, according to a history compiled by Central High School student Michael Walsh.
A brother, First Lt. H. James Grove, Jr. served in the European Theater
a Marine private first class, died March 2, 1945, of wounds suffered on Iwo Jima. He was 21. Grove, a 1942 graduate of Omaha Central High School, was one of the few athletes to receive four letters — baseball, football, basketball and track — in one year. He also wrestled for Central. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 after attending Northwestern University for a year. At Northwestern, he played on the freshman football team.
Grove received boot training in San Diego, and was transferred to the Fifth Marine Division after the unit with which he was training as a machine gun raider was disbanded because of changed battle conditions. He had gone overseas in October 1944. In his first action, he fought in an invasion of Iwo Jima beginning Feb. 19, 1945. Grove was killed by a shrapnel wound to the neck in the fight to take Hill 362A, according to a history compiled by Central High School student Michael Walsh.
A brother, First Lt. H. James Grove, Jr. served in the European Theater
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