Fay Gene Teter
Private, U.S. Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Entered the Service From: Illinois
Date of Death: November 22, 1943
Wars or Conflicts: World War II
Memorialized:Courts of the Missing: Court 4
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Awards Purple Heart
*******
NARA records list his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Rock Island, Illinois.
PRESS RELEASE | Aug. 3, 2022
Marine Accounted For From World War II (Teter, F.)
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. Fay G. Teter, 17, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. 2, 2022.
In November 1943, Teter was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, 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, while the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Teter was killed on the third day of the battle, Nov. 22, 1943. His remains were reportedly buried in Cemetery 33.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Teter's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XkePEAS.
Private, U.S. Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Entered the Service From: Illinois
Date of Death: November 22, 1943
Wars or Conflicts: World War II
Memorialized:Courts of the Missing: Court 4
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Awards Purple Heart
*******
NARA records list his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Rock Island, Illinois.
PRESS RELEASE | Aug. 3, 2022
Marine Accounted For From World War II (Teter, F.)
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. Fay G. Teter, 17, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. 2, 2022.
In November 1943, Teter was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, 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, while the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Teter was killed on the third day of the battle, Nov. 22, 1943. His remains were reportedly buried in Cemetery 33.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Teter's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XkePEAS.
Fay Gene Teter
Private, U.S. Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Entered the Service From: Illinois
Date of Death: November 22, 1943
Wars or Conflicts: World War II
Memorialized:Courts of the Missing: Court 4
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Awards Purple Heart
*******
NARA records list his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Rock Island, Illinois.
PRESS RELEASE | Aug. 3, 2022
Marine Accounted For From World War II (Teter, F.)
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. Fay G. Teter, 17, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. 2, 2022.
In November 1943, Teter was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, 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, while the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Teter was killed on the third day of the battle, Nov. 22, 1943. His remains were reportedly buried in Cemetery 33.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Teter's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XkePEAS.
Private, U.S. Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Entered the Service From: Illinois
Date of Death: November 22, 1943
Wars or Conflicts: World War II
Memorialized:Courts of the Missing: Court 4
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Awards Purple Heart
*******
NARA records list his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Rock Island, Illinois.
PRESS RELEASE | Aug. 3, 2022
Marine Accounted For From World War II (Teter, F.)
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. Fay G. Teter, 17, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. 2, 2022.
In November 1943, Teter was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, 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, while the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Teter was killed on the third day of the battle, Nov. 22, 1943. His remains were reportedly buried in Cemetery 33.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Teter's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XkePEAS.
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