USMCR World War II
PFC Kenneth Andrews Sep 19, 1944, KIA Solomon Is, October 31, 1944
Unit Company F, 2nd Parachute Battalion,1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps, FMF
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Mother, Mrs. Laura Andrews,
service# 504515
Awards: He is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, , Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal
Details of career here.
At the end of 1942, the Marine Corps had transferred the parachute battalions from their respective divisions and made them a I Marine Amphibious Corps asset. This recognized their special training and unique mission and theoretically allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield and rebuild while the divisions remained engaged in extended land combat. After the 3d Battalion arrived in New Caledonia in March 1943, I MAC took the next logical step and created the 1st Parachute Regiment on 1 April. This fulfilled Holland Smith's original call for a regimental-size unit and provided for unified control of the battalions in combat and in training. Lieutenant Colonel Williams became the first commanding officer of the new organization.
Attack at Sangigai and the "Invasion" Is On Commanding Ofc Lt. Col. Victor Krulak
About 4 a.m. on October 30, the battalion left the Mountain Camp. Moving to the beach, the force waited for four landing craft to pick them up. Before the craft could meet the marines, however, four U.S. fighter aircraft attacked the boats, apparently thinking them Japanese barges, and damaged three of them.
E and F Companies marched down the coast to Sangigai, 10 miles to the southeast, for the planned attack. The force was guided by Seton and two native scouts. About the time the marines began their march, the prearranged air strike with 12 TBF torpedo bombers and 26 fighters dropped about two tons of bombs on the enemy positions just outside Sangigai.
On October 30, 1943, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Krulak, the 2d Battalion commander attacked Sangigai and captured the village unopposed. Defenders fled inland, then launched a banzai attack that was repulsed. There, the installation and a barge were destroyed. Captured documents included a chart pin pointing mine fields off Bougainville. The company then linked up with landing craft and made it back to base that evening. The cost of the victory was 6 dead, 1 missing, and 12 wounded, including Krulak, who suffered wounds in his face and arm from fragments. A flying boat evacuated the severest casualties and picked up the invaluable mine charts. 72 Japanese were killed. Coastwatcher Station Del Located on Mount Alikona, near the southern coast of the island, inland from Sangigai.
PFC Kenneth Andrews Sep 19, 1944, KIA Solomon Is, October 31, 1944
Unit Company F, 2nd Parachute Battalion,1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps, FMF
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Mother, Mrs. Laura Andrews,
service# 504515
Awards: He is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, , Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal
Details of career here.
At the end of 1942, the Marine Corps had transferred the parachute battalions from their respective divisions and made them a I Marine Amphibious Corps asset. This recognized their special training and unique mission and theoretically allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield and rebuild while the divisions remained engaged in extended land combat. After the 3d Battalion arrived in New Caledonia in March 1943, I MAC took the next logical step and created the 1st Parachute Regiment on 1 April. This fulfilled Holland Smith's original call for a regimental-size unit and provided for unified control of the battalions in combat and in training. Lieutenant Colonel Williams became the first commanding officer of the new organization.
Attack at Sangigai and the "Invasion" Is On Commanding Ofc Lt. Col. Victor Krulak
About 4 a.m. on October 30, the battalion left the Mountain Camp. Moving to the beach, the force waited for four landing craft to pick them up. Before the craft could meet the marines, however, four U.S. fighter aircraft attacked the boats, apparently thinking them Japanese barges, and damaged three of them.
E and F Companies marched down the coast to Sangigai, 10 miles to the southeast, for the planned attack. The force was guided by Seton and two native scouts. About the time the marines began their march, the prearranged air strike with 12 TBF torpedo bombers and 26 fighters dropped about two tons of bombs on the enemy positions just outside Sangigai.
On October 30, 1943, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Krulak, the 2d Battalion commander attacked Sangigai and captured the village unopposed. Defenders fled inland, then launched a banzai attack that was repulsed. There, the installation and a barge were destroyed. Captured documents included a chart pin pointing mine fields off Bougainville. The company then linked up with landing craft and made it back to base that evening. The cost of the victory was 6 dead, 1 missing, and 12 wounded, including Krulak, who suffered wounds in his face and arm from fragments. A flying boat evacuated the severest casualties and picked up the invaluable mine charts. 72 Japanese were killed. Coastwatcher Station Del Located on Mount Alikona, near the southern coast of the island, inland from Sangigai.
USMCR World War II
PFC Kenneth Andrews Sep 19, 1944, KIA Solomon Is, October 31, 1944
Unit Company F, 2nd Parachute Battalion,1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps, FMF
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Mother, Mrs. Laura Andrews,
service# 504515
Awards: He is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, , Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal
Details of career here.
At the end of 1942, the Marine Corps had transferred the parachute battalions from their respective divisions and made them a I Marine Amphibious Corps asset. This recognized their special training and unique mission and theoretically allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield and rebuild while the divisions remained engaged in extended land combat. After the 3d Battalion arrived in New Caledonia in March 1943, I MAC took the next logical step and created the 1st Parachute Regiment on 1 April. This fulfilled Holland Smith's original call for a regimental-size unit and provided for unified control of the battalions in combat and in training. Lieutenant Colonel Williams became the first commanding officer of the new organization.
Attack at Sangigai and the "Invasion" Is On Commanding Ofc Lt. Col. Victor Krulak
About 4 a.m. on October 30, the battalion left the Mountain Camp. Moving to the beach, the force waited for four landing craft to pick them up. Before the craft could meet the marines, however, four U.S. fighter aircraft attacked the boats, apparently thinking them Japanese barges, and damaged three of them.
E and F Companies marched down the coast to Sangigai, 10 miles to the southeast, for the planned attack. The force was guided by Seton and two native scouts. About the time the marines began their march, the prearranged air strike with 12 TBF torpedo bombers and 26 fighters dropped about two tons of bombs on the enemy positions just outside Sangigai.
On October 30, 1943, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Krulak, the 2d Battalion commander attacked Sangigai and captured the village unopposed. Defenders fled inland, then launched a banzai attack that was repulsed. There, the installation and a barge were destroyed. Captured documents included a chart pin pointing mine fields off Bougainville. The company then linked up with landing craft and made it back to base that evening. The cost of the victory was 6 dead, 1 missing, and 12 wounded, including Krulak, who suffered wounds in his face and arm from fragments. A flying boat evacuated the severest casualties and picked up the invaluable mine charts. 72 Japanese were killed. Coastwatcher Station Del Located on Mount Alikona, near the southern coast of the island, inland from Sangigai.
PFC Kenneth Andrews Sep 19, 1944, KIA Solomon Is, October 31, 1944
Unit Company F, 2nd Parachute Battalion,1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps, FMF
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Mother, Mrs. Laura Andrews,
service# 504515
Awards: He is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, , Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal
Details of career here.
At the end of 1942, the Marine Corps had transferred the parachute battalions from their respective divisions and made them a I Marine Amphibious Corps asset. This recognized their special training and unique mission and theoretically allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield and rebuild while the divisions remained engaged in extended land combat. After the 3d Battalion arrived in New Caledonia in March 1943, I MAC took the next logical step and created the 1st Parachute Regiment on 1 April. This fulfilled Holland Smith's original call for a regimental-size unit and provided for unified control of the battalions in combat and in training. Lieutenant Colonel Williams became the first commanding officer of the new organization.
Attack at Sangigai and the "Invasion" Is On Commanding Ofc Lt. Col. Victor Krulak
About 4 a.m. on October 30, the battalion left the Mountain Camp. Moving to the beach, the force waited for four landing craft to pick them up. Before the craft could meet the marines, however, four U.S. fighter aircraft attacked the boats, apparently thinking them Japanese barges, and damaged three of them.
E and F Companies marched down the coast to Sangigai, 10 miles to the southeast, for the planned attack. The force was guided by Seton and two native scouts. About the time the marines began their march, the prearranged air strike with 12 TBF torpedo bombers and 26 fighters dropped about two tons of bombs on the enemy positions just outside Sangigai.
On October 30, 1943, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Krulak, the 2d Battalion commander attacked Sangigai and captured the village unopposed. Defenders fled inland, then launched a banzai attack that was repulsed. There, the installation and a barge were destroyed. Captured documents included a chart pin pointing mine fields off Bougainville. The company then linked up with landing craft and made it back to base that evening. The cost of the victory was 6 dead, 1 missing, and 12 wounded, including Krulak, who suffered wounds in his face and arm from fragments. A flying boat evacuated the severest casualties and picked up the invaluable mine charts. 72 Japanese were killed. Coastwatcher Station Del Located on Mount Alikona, near the southern coast of the island, inland from Sangigai.
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