Silver Star Recipient (Awarded Posthumously)
QM SGT, US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II
KIA Corregidor
Corregidor 05 May 1942
As the Marines fought and fell back to other fighting positions, the Japanese took over the Denver Battery site and proceeded to lay down withering machine-gun fire. Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins and his very good friend Sergeant Major Thomas Frank Sweeney assaulted the short water tower with a handful of grenades and killed the Japanese machine-gun crew on top of that tower from grenades and hand-to-hand fighting. The two men took over the tower and began hurling grenades at Japanese fighting positions and snipers until they ran our of grenades. Haskins left the tower to obtain more grenades and upon his return he was scaling the ladder on the water tower when he was killed by the Japanese. Sweeney was still atop the tower but may have been dead by this time. Due to their friendship, it was fitting that Sweeney and Haskins would fight their last battle together and die as Marine comrades in arms.
Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously, for the actions that resulted in his death. His citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) (Posthumously) to Quartermaster Sergeant John E. Haskin (MCSN: 233887), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action as a platoon leader in a Rifle Company of the Fourth Marine Regiment, on 5 May 1942 in action on Corregidor, Philippine Islands when his platoon was halted by hostile machine gun and machine rifle fire. He charged the enemy position and with hand grenades destroyed the machine gun and crew, himself fatally wounded in a lone attack. The heroic action of Sergeant Haskin permitted his platoon to continue its advance and is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Services.
Contributor: steve s (47126287) • [email protected]
QM SGT, US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II
KIA Corregidor
Corregidor 05 May 1942
As the Marines fought and fell back to other fighting positions, the Japanese took over the Denver Battery site and proceeded to lay down withering machine-gun fire. Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins and his very good friend Sergeant Major Thomas Frank Sweeney assaulted the short water tower with a handful of grenades and killed the Japanese machine-gun crew on top of that tower from grenades and hand-to-hand fighting. The two men took over the tower and began hurling grenades at Japanese fighting positions and snipers until they ran our of grenades. Haskins left the tower to obtain more grenades and upon his return he was scaling the ladder on the water tower when he was killed by the Japanese. Sweeney was still atop the tower but may have been dead by this time. Due to their friendship, it was fitting that Sweeney and Haskins would fight their last battle together and die as Marine comrades in arms.
Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously, for the actions that resulted in his death. His citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) (Posthumously) to Quartermaster Sergeant John E. Haskin (MCSN: 233887), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action as a platoon leader in a Rifle Company of the Fourth Marine Regiment, on 5 May 1942 in action on Corregidor, Philippine Islands when his platoon was halted by hostile machine gun and machine rifle fire. He charged the enemy position and with hand grenades destroyed the machine gun and crew, himself fatally wounded in a lone attack. The heroic action of Sergeant Haskin permitted his platoon to continue its advance and is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Services.
Contributor: steve s (47126287) • [email protected]
Silver Star Recipient (Awarded Posthumously)
QM SGT, US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II
KIA Corregidor
Corregidor 05 May 1942
As the Marines fought and fell back to other fighting positions, the Japanese took over the Denver Battery site and proceeded to lay down withering machine-gun fire. Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins and his very good friend Sergeant Major Thomas Frank Sweeney assaulted the short water tower with a handful of grenades and killed the Japanese machine-gun crew on top of that tower from grenades and hand-to-hand fighting. The two men took over the tower and began hurling grenades at Japanese fighting positions and snipers until they ran our of grenades. Haskins left the tower to obtain more grenades and upon his return he was scaling the ladder on the water tower when he was killed by the Japanese. Sweeney was still atop the tower but may have been dead by this time. Due to their friendship, it was fitting that Sweeney and Haskins would fight their last battle together and die as Marine comrades in arms.
Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously, for the actions that resulted in his death. His citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) (Posthumously) to Quartermaster Sergeant John E. Haskin (MCSN: 233887), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action as a platoon leader in a Rifle Company of the Fourth Marine Regiment, on 5 May 1942 in action on Corregidor, Philippine Islands when his platoon was halted by hostile machine gun and machine rifle fire. He charged the enemy position and with hand grenades destroyed the machine gun and crew, himself fatally wounded in a lone attack. The heroic action of Sergeant Haskin permitted his platoon to continue its advance and is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Services.
Contributor: steve s (47126287) • [email protected]
QM SGT, US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II
KIA Corregidor
Corregidor 05 May 1942
As the Marines fought and fell back to other fighting positions, the Japanese took over the Denver Battery site and proceeded to lay down withering machine-gun fire. Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins and his very good friend Sergeant Major Thomas Frank Sweeney assaulted the short water tower with a handful of grenades and killed the Japanese machine-gun crew on top of that tower from grenades and hand-to-hand fighting. The two men took over the tower and began hurling grenades at Japanese fighting positions and snipers until they ran our of grenades. Haskins left the tower to obtain more grenades and upon his return he was scaling the ladder on the water tower when he was killed by the Japanese. Sweeney was still atop the tower but may have been dead by this time. Due to their friendship, it was fitting that Sweeney and Haskins would fight their last battle together and die as Marine comrades in arms.
Quarter Master Sergeant John Haskins was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously, for the actions that resulted in his death. His citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) (Posthumously) to Quartermaster Sergeant John E. Haskin (MCSN: 233887), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action as a platoon leader in a Rifle Company of the Fourth Marine Regiment, on 5 May 1942 in action on Corregidor, Philippine Islands when his platoon was halted by hostile machine gun and machine rifle fire. He charged the enemy position and with hand grenades destroyed the machine gun and crew, himself fatally wounded in a lone attack. The heroic action of Sergeant Haskin permitted his platoon to continue its advance and is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Services.
Contributor: steve s (47126287) • [email protected]
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