Carl Willenborg enlisted in the Marine Corps in January of 1943. Thirteen months later, he landed on Namur with the 24th Marines.
Corporal Willenborg survived his first campaign, but shortly after the regiment touched the beach on Saipan, they came under artillery fire. A shell came screaming into the ranks of Marines, and Willenborg fell to the ground with multiple shrapnel wounds.
Corporal Carl Willenborg was the first of more than twenty members of the company to die in the three week battle for Saipan. He was buried in Grave 603, Row 7, Plot 3 of the 4th Marine Division Cemetery. After the war he was reinterred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Corporal Willenborg survived his first campaign, but shortly after the regiment touched the beach on Saipan, they came under artillery fire. A shell came screaming into the ranks of Marines, and Willenborg fell to the ground with multiple shrapnel wounds.
Corporal Carl Willenborg was the first of more than twenty members of the company to die in the three week battle for Saipan. He was buried in Grave 603, Row 7, Plot 3 of the 4th Marine Division Cemetery. After the war he was reinterred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Carl Willenborg enlisted in the Marine Corps in January of 1943. Thirteen months later, he landed on Namur with the 24th Marines.
Corporal Willenborg survived his first campaign, but shortly after the regiment touched the beach on Saipan, they came under artillery fire. A shell came screaming into the ranks of Marines, and Willenborg fell to the ground with multiple shrapnel wounds.
Corporal Carl Willenborg was the first of more than twenty members of the company to die in the three week battle for Saipan. He was buried in Grave 603, Row 7, Plot 3 of the 4th Marine Division Cemetery. After the war he was reinterred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Corporal Willenborg survived his first campaign, but shortly after the regiment touched the beach on Saipan, they came under artillery fire. A shell came screaming into the ranks of Marines, and Willenborg fell to the ground with multiple shrapnel wounds.
Corporal Carl Willenborg was the first of more than twenty members of the company to die in the three week battle for Saipan. He was buried in Grave 603, Row 7, Plot 3 of the 4th Marine Division Cemetery. After the war he was reinterred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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Records on Ancestry
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1940 United States Federal Census
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1930 United States Federal Census
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Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries, 1947-1959
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Iowa, U.S., Armed Forces Grave Registrations, 1835-1998
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Iowa, U.S., Births (series) 1880-1904, 1921-1944 and Delayed Births (series), 1856-1940
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