21JUL2017
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Carbone was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Carbone died sometime on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Interment services are pending; a formal notification will be released 7-10 days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Carbone’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle Monuments Commission site along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Actual Burial here
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Carbone was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Carbone died sometime on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Interment services are pending; a formal notification will be released 7-10 days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Carbone’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle Monuments Commission site along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Actual Burial here
21JUL2017
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Carbone was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Carbone died sometime on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Interment services are pending; a formal notification will be released 7-10 days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Carbone’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle Monuments Commission site along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Actual Burial here
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Carbone was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Carbone died sometime on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Interment services are pending; a formal notification will be released 7-10 days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Carbone’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle Monuments Commission site along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Actual Burial here
Bio by: Frogman
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Entered the service from New York.
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