On April 7, 2018, Marine Corps PFC Lyle Ellis Charpilloz, 17, killed during World War II, was finally laid to rest - in American soil - with full military honors.
Born on March 3, 1925, in Silverton, Oregon, Lyle Ellis Charpilloz was blessed to the union of Julius Abel and Alice (Eggleston) Charpilloz.
Lyle was just 14 years old on July 29, 1941 when he lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Private First Class Charpilloz was with his brothers in Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion of the 8th Marines (F-2/8) when they landed on Betio as part of Operation: GALVANIC. The mission of the 2nd Marine Division was to secure the island in order to control the Japanese airstrip in the Tarawa Atoll; thereby preventing the Japanese Imperial forces from getting closer to the United States, and enabling US forces to get closer to mainland Japan. It would become one of the bloodiest battles in the Corps history.
It was November 20, 1943 (D-Day for the "Battle of Tarawa"), when young Lyle - just 17 years old - perished.
Having a loved one away from home during the holidays is always trying; however, having a son or husband off fighting in the war left the whole family on edge. The fact that this battle took place just before Thanksgiving meant that most of the families, who had unknowingly earned their Gold Star, would receive their heart-wrenching telegrams on Christmas Eve – some Christmas Day or even New Years Day.
For his service and sacrifice, Lyle's parents accepted the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation.
Despite the heavy casualties suffered by U.S. forces, military success in the battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military because the Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet a platform from which to launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance their Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio, but PFC Charpilloz's remains were not recovered. On February 8, 1949, a military review board declared Lyle “non-recoverable”.
In 2013, Jennifer Morrison, an independent volunteer forensic genealogist, found the family of PFC Charpilloz family and put them in contact with the Marine Corps POW/MIA Section. This (re)established lines of communication with Lylde’s family regarding the ongoing recovery and repatriation efforts, and offered his baby sister the opportunity to provide the Family Reference DNA Sample ultimately necessary for Lyle's identification.
In May 2014, through a partnership with History Flight, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency received remains from a site where Charpilloz was believed to have been buried. The recovered remains were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-5 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP, known as "the Punchbowl"), in Honolulu, and submitted the remains for analysis. Based on consistent recovery context and shared DNA, the remains were consolidated with those accessioned in 2014.
The DPAA officially announced that PFC Lyle Charpilloz was accounted-for on September 27, 2017. To identify Charpilloz’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial (mtDNA), which matched his family, dental and anthropological analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial evidence.
Lyle was finally returned to his family and, on April 7, 2018, laid to rest at Belcrest Memorial Park, in Salem, Oregon, with full military honors (185721475).
Marine Corps Private First Class Lyle Ellis Charpilloz is memorialized among the NMCP's Honolulu Memorial. Although Lyle has now been recovered and identified, his name shall remain permanently inscribed among Court 2 of the "Courts of the Missing". A rosette has been placed next to his name to indicate Lyle is no longer missing.
SOURCE
Marine Corps POW/MIA Section
DPAA Release No: 18-033 (March 27, 2018)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Jennifer Morrison, independent volunteer forensic genealogist
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Note from the memorial maintainer:
I am grateful to Chuck Williams & Hattie Johnson (USMC POW/MIA Section), the Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab, History Flight, the DVA and the DPAA for their efforts in bringing my Marine home. “It takes a village!”
Born on March 3, 1925, in Silverton, Oregon, Lyle Ellis Charpilloz was blessed to the union of Julius Abel and Alice (Eggleston) Charpilloz.
Lyle was just 14 years old on July 29, 1941 when he lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Private First Class Charpilloz was with his brothers in Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion of the 8th Marines (F-2/8) when they landed on Betio as part of Operation: GALVANIC. The mission of the 2nd Marine Division was to secure the island in order to control the Japanese airstrip in the Tarawa Atoll; thereby preventing the Japanese Imperial forces from getting closer to the United States, and enabling US forces to get closer to mainland Japan. It would become one of the bloodiest battles in the Corps history.
It was November 20, 1943 (D-Day for the "Battle of Tarawa"), when young Lyle - just 17 years old - perished.
Having a loved one away from home during the holidays is always trying; however, having a son or husband off fighting in the war left the whole family on edge. The fact that this battle took place just before Thanksgiving meant that most of the families, who had unknowingly earned their Gold Star, would receive their heart-wrenching telegrams on Christmas Eve – some Christmas Day or even New Years Day.
For his service and sacrifice, Lyle's parents accepted the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation.
Despite the heavy casualties suffered by U.S. forces, military success in the battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military because the Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet a platform from which to launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance their Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio, but PFC Charpilloz's remains were not recovered. On February 8, 1949, a military review board declared Lyle “non-recoverable”.
In 2013, Jennifer Morrison, an independent volunteer forensic genealogist, found the family of PFC Charpilloz family and put them in contact with the Marine Corps POW/MIA Section. This (re)established lines of communication with Lylde’s family regarding the ongoing recovery and repatriation efforts, and offered his baby sister the opportunity to provide the Family Reference DNA Sample ultimately necessary for Lyle's identification.
In May 2014, through a partnership with History Flight, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency received remains from a site where Charpilloz was believed to have been buried. The recovered remains were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-5 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP, known as "the Punchbowl"), in Honolulu, and submitted the remains for analysis. Based on consistent recovery context and shared DNA, the remains were consolidated with those accessioned in 2014.
The DPAA officially announced that PFC Lyle Charpilloz was accounted-for on September 27, 2017. To identify Charpilloz’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial (mtDNA), which matched his family, dental and anthropological analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial evidence.
Lyle was finally returned to his family and, on April 7, 2018, laid to rest at Belcrest Memorial Park, in Salem, Oregon, with full military honors (185721475).
Marine Corps Private First Class Lyle Ellis Charpilloz is memorialized among the NMCP's Honolulu Memorial. Although Lyle has now been recovered and identified, his name shall remain permanently inscribed among Court 2 of the "Courts of the Missing". A rosette has been placed next to his name to indicate Lyle is no longer missing.
SOURCE
Marine Corps POW/MIA Section
DPAA Release No: 18-033 (March 27, 2018)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Jennifer Morrison, independent volunteer forensic genealogist
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note from the memorial maintainer:
I am grateful to Chuck Williams & Hattie Johnson (USMC POW/MIA Section), the Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab, History Flight, the DVA and the DPAA for their efforts in bringing my Marine home. “It takes a village!”
On April 7, 2018, Marine Corps PFC Lyle Ellis Charpilloz, 17, killed during World War II, was finally laid to rest - in American soil - with full military honors.
Born on March 3, 1925, in Silverton, Oregon, Lyle Ellis Charpilloz was blessed to the union of Julius Abel and Alice (Eggleston) Charpilloz.
Lyle was just 14 years old on July 29, 1941 when he lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Private First Class Charpilloz was with his brothers in Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion of the 8th Marines (F-2/8) when they landed on Betio as part of Operation: GALVANIC. The mission of the 2nd Marine Division was to secure the island in order to control the Japanese airstrip in the Tarawa Atoll; thereby preventing the Japanese Imperial forces from getting closer to the United States, and enabling US forces to get closer to mainland Japan. It would become one of the bloodiest battles in the Corps history.
It was November 20, 1943 (D-Day for the "Battle of Tarawa"), when young Lyle - just 17 years old - perished.
Having a loved one away from home during the holidays is always trying; however, having a son or husband off fighting in the war left the whole family on edge. The fact that this battle took place just before Thanksgiving meant that most of the families, who had unknowingly earned their Gold Star, would receive their heart-wrenching telegrams on Christmas Eve – some Christmas Day or even New Years Day.
For his service and sacrifice, Lyle's parents accepted the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation.
Despite the heavy casualties suffered by U.S. forces, military success in the battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military because the Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet a platform from which to launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance their Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio, but PFC Charpilloz's remains were not recovered. On February 8, 1949, a military review board declared Lyle “non-recoverable”.
In 2013, Jennifer Morrison, an independent volunteer forensic genealogist, found the family of PFC Charpilloz family and put them in contact with the Marine Corps POW/MIA Section. This (re)established lines of communication with Lylde’s family regarding the ongoing recovery and repatriation efforts, and offered his baby sister the opportunity to provide the Family Reference DNA Sample ultimately necessary for Lyle's identification.
In May 2014, through a partnership with History Flight, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency received remains from a site where Charpilloz was believed to have been buried. The recovered remains were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-5 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP, known as "the Punchbowl"), in Honolulu, and submitted the remains for analysis. Based on consistent recovery context and shared DNA, the remains were consolidated with those accessioned in 2014.
The DPAA officially announced that PFC Lyle Charpilloz was accounted-for on September 27, 2017. To identify Charpilloz’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial (mtDNA), which matched his family, dental and anthropological analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial evidence.
Lyle was finally returned to his family and, on April 7, 2018, laid to rest at Belcrest Memorial Park, in Salem, Oregon, with full military honors (185721475).
Marine Corps Private First Class Lyle Ellis Charpilloz is memorialized among the NMCP's Honolulu Memorial. Although Lyle has now been recovered and identified, his name shall remain permanently inscribed among Court 2 of the "Courts of the Missing". A rosette has been placed next to his name to indicate Lyle is no longer missing.
SOURCE
Marine Corps POW/MIA Section
DPAA Release No: 18-033 (March 27, 2018)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Jennifer Morrison, independent volunteer forensic genealogist
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note from the memorial maintainer:
I am grateful to Chuck Williams & Hattie Johnson (USMC POW/MIA Section), the Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab, History Flight, the DVA and the DPAA for their efforts in bringing my Marine home. “It takes a village!”
Born on March 3, 1925, in Silverton, Oregon, Lyle Ellis Charpilloz was blessed to the union of Julius Abel and Alice (Eggleston) Charpilloz.
Lyle was just 14 years old on July 29, 1941 when he lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Private First Class Charpilloz was with his brothers in Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion of the 8th Marines (F-2/8) when they landed on Betio as part of Operation: GALVANIC. The mission of the 2nd Marine Division was to secure the island in order to control the Japanese airstrip in the Tarawa Atoll; thereby preventing the Japanese Imperial forces from getting closer to the United States, and enabling US forces to get closer to mainland Japan. It would become one of the bloodiest battles in the Corps history.
It was November 20, 1943 (D-Day for the "Battle of Tarawa"), when young Lyle - just 17 years old - perished.
Having a loved one away from home during the holidays is always trying; however, having a son or husband off fighting in the war left the whole family on edge. The fact that this battle took place just before Thanksgiving meant that most of the families, who had unknowingly earned their Gold Star, would receive their heart-wrenching telegrams on Christmas Eve – some Christmas Day or even New Years Day.
For his service and sacrifice, Lyle's parents accepted the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation.
Despite the heavy casualties suffered by U.S. forces, military success in the battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military because the Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet a platform from which to launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance their Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio, but PFC Charpilloz's remains were not recovered. On February 8, 1949, a military review board declared Lyle “non-recoverable”.
In 2013, Jennifer Morrison, an independent volunteer forensic genealogist, found the family of PFC Charpilloz family and put them in contact with the Marine Corps POW/MIA Section. This (re)established lines of communication with Lylde’s family regarding the ongoing recovery and repatriation efforts, and offered his baby sister the opportunity to provide the Family Reference DNA Sample ultimately necessary for Lyle's identification.
In May 2014, through a partnership with History Flight, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency received remains from a site where Charpilloz was believed to have been buried. The recovered remains were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-5 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP, known as "the Punchbowl"), in Honolulu, and submitted the remains for analysis. Based on consistent recovery context and shared DNA, the remains were consolidated with those accessioned in 2014.
The DPAA officially announced that PFC Lyle Charpilloz was accounted-for on September 27, 2017. To identify Charpilloz’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial (mtDNA), which matched his family, dental and anthropological analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial evidence.
Lyle was finally returned to his family and, on April 7, 2018, laid to rest at Belcrest Memorial Park, in Salem, Oregon, with full military honors (185721475).
Marine Corps Private First Class Lyle Ellis Charpilloz is memorialized among the NMCP's Honolulu Memorial. Although Lyle has now been recovered and identified, his name shall remain permanently inscribed among Court 2 of the "Courts of the Missing". A rosette has been placed next to his name to indicate Lyle is no longer missing.
SOURCE
Marine Corps POW/MIA Section
DPAA Release No: 18-033 (March 27, 2018)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Jennifer Morrison, independent volunteer forensic genealogist
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note from the memorial maintainer:
I am grateful to Chuck Williams & Hattie Johnson (USMC POW/MIA Section), the Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab, History Flight, the DVA and the DPAA for their efforts in bringing my Marine home. “It takes a village!”
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CHARPILLOZ LYLE E / PRIVATE FIRST CLASS • USMC • OREGON
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A rosette has been placed next to his name to indicate Lyle is no longer missing.
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