Posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, Purple Heart and Captaincy.
Tanner, Karl
1LT, 016663, Headquarters Company, S-1 and Bn Mess O.
Feb 11, arrived and disembarked USS Dickens at Saipan, Marianas Islands. Feb 11, embarked and sailed from Saipan, Marianas Islands, via LST #758; Feb 19 arrived and disembarked at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; Feb 19-28 participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 1-8, S-1, BnMessO, participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 9, KIA on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; 25, remains interred in plot 8, row 6, grave 2141, 5th Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands.
(Transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945)
Tanner, Karl
1LT, 016663, Headquarters Company, S-1 and Bn Mess O.
Feb 11, arrived and disembarked USS Dickens at Saipan, Marianas Islands. Feb 11, embarked and sailed from Saipan, Marianas Islands, via LST #758; Feb 19 arrived and disembarked at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; Feb 19-28 participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 1-8, S-1, BnMessO, participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 9, KIA on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; 25, remains interred in plot 8, row 6, grave 2141, 5th Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands.
(Transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945)
Posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, Purple Heart and Captaincy.
Tanner, Karl
1LT, 016663, Headquarters Company, S-1 and Bn Mess O.
Feb 11, arrived and disembarked USS Dickens at Saipan, Marianas Islands. Feb 11, embarked and sailed from Saipan, Marianas Islands, via LST #758; Feb 19 arrived and disembarked at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; Feb 19-28 participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 1-8, S-1, BnMessO, participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 9, KIA on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; 25, remains interred in plot 8, row 6, grave 2141, 5th Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands.
(Transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945)
Tanner, Karl
1LT, 016663, Headquarters Company, S-1 and Bn Mess O.
Feb 11, arrived and disembarked USS Dickens at Saipan, Marianas Islands. Feb 11, embarked and sailed from Saipan, Marianas Islands, via LST #758; Feb 19 arrived and disembarked at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; Feb 19-28 participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 1-8, S-1, BnMessO, participated in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Mar 9, KIA on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands; 25, remains interred in plot 8, row 6, grave 2141, 5th Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands.
(Transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945)
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