1920 United States Federal Census (19 January 1920): Newville, Henry County, Alabama (sheet 12A, family 224) – Johnnie Teal (3 2/12 Alabama).
Johnnie W. Teal enlisted as a Private (S/N 275590) in the United States Marine Corps on 13 October 1939 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 16 October 1939 to 01 December 1939
Recruit Depot Detachment, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private Johnnie W. Teal. He was then assigned to Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 December 1939 to 01 November 1940
Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private/Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was promoted to Private First Class on 06 July 1940.
Johnney W. Teal (23 Alabama) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940) at the U. S. Marine Corps Base, San Diego, San Diego County, California (sheet 48A, line 18). He had lived in rural, Dale County, Alabama in 1935. Jonnie had completed 6th grade. He was with the Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force.
On 01 November 1940 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 November 1940 to 31 December 1940
Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal
On 18 January 1941 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 18 January 1941 to 03 April 1941
Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. On o3 April 1942 he was transferred to "Asiatic Station for General Assignment." He embarked on the 4th and sailed on 09 April from NYd, Mare Island, California via U.S.S. HENDERSON. PFC Teal was sent to the Philippine Islands.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 July 1941 to 26 December 1941
Company "A" First Separate Marine Battalion Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Cavite, P.I.
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was one of 700 Marines that was organized as a defense and infantry battalion. The First Separate Marine Battalion at Cavite provided antiaircraft and ground protection for all naval activities there. In October he was sent for temporary duty at U.S. Naval Section Base Two, Mariveles, Bataan, P.I.
War broke out on 08 December 1941 and on 10 December, the Cavite Naval Yard was bombed. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered the withdrawal of the American and Filipino forces to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force. On 26 December the First Separate Marine Battalion were moved to Mariveles, Bataan. "As night fell on 26 December all personnel, equipment, and supplies were in place in the jungle near Mariveles." Over the next couple of days they were moved to Fort Mills, Corregidor Island. On 01 January 1942 the First Separate Marine Battalion was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. Johnnie was assigned to Company I.
The 3rd Battalion was assigned the beach defenses in the middle sector on the northeast beaches of the tail of the island (1st Battalion took the east sector, from Malinta Hill to Hooker Point. The 2nd Battalion moved to the west sector). Work began immediately on construction of beach defenses.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 January 1942 to o6 May 1942
Company I, Third Battalion, 4th Marines, Corregidor, P.I.
Private First Class/Corporal Johnnie W. Teal. By April 1942 he had been promoted to Corporal.
On the night of 05 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on Corregidor. Despite heavy resistance by the Marines and severe losses to the Japanese, the enemy was able to push forward. The situation grew more perilous and feeling that further resistance was useless and fearing a possible massacre of 1,000 sick and wounded personnel in Malinta Tunnel, General Wainwright decided to surrender. At 1200, 06 May 1942 the surrender went into effect. Corporal Johnnie W. Teal was among those killed on 06 May 1942.
CPL Teal was initially listed as missing in action. It wasn't until some affidavits of his death were given by fellow Marines while they were in Cabanatuan Prison in August 1942 that he was officially listed as killed in action on 06 May 1942.
Gunnery Sergeant John T. White, USMC, 166191, swore on 24 August 1942, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on 06 May 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.:
PFC Harry G. Hansen, Jr. – 4th Marines, 266633
CPL Johnnie W. Teal – 4th Marines, 275950
Source: File 558-7 1942 Death Reports, shows cause and date of death and place of burial of some cases. Collected in Cabanatuan POW Camp; Philippine Archives Collection.
CPL Johnnie W. Teal's remains were not recovered.
Corporal Johnnie Wesley Teal is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Marine Corps at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
He also has a cenotaph next to his parents in Edwin Community Cemetery, Henry County, Alabama.
Awards: Purple Heart
"Marine casualties in the defense of the Philippines totaled 72 killed in action, 17 dead of wounds, and 167 wounded in action. Worse that the casualty levels caused by combat in the Philippines was the brutal treatment of the Marines in Japanese hands. Of the 1,487 members of the 4th Marines captured on Corregidor, 474 died in captivity." Source: From Shanghai to Corregidor Marines in the Defense of the Philippines by J. Michael Miller, page 44.
Johnnie W. Teal enlisted as a Private (S/N 275590) in the United States Marine Corps on 13 October 1939 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 16 October 1939 to 01 December 1939
Recruit Depot Detachment, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private Johnnie W. Teal. He was then assigned to Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 December 1939 to 01 November 1940
Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private/Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was promoted to Private First Class on 06 July 1940.
Johnney W. Teal (23 Alabama) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940) at the U. S. Marine Corps Base, San Diego, San Diego County, California (sheet 48A, line 18). He had lived in rural, Dale County, Alabama in 1935. Jonnie had completed 6th grade. He was with the Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force.
On 01 November 1940 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 November 1940 to 31 December 1940
Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal
On 18 January 1941 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 18 January 1941 to 03 April 1941
Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. On o3 April 1942 he was transferred to "Asiatic Station for General Assignment." He embarked on the 4th and sailed on 09 April from NYd, Mare Island, California via U.S.S. HENDERSON. PFC Teal was sent to the Philippine Islands.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 July 1941 to 26 December 1941
Company "A" First Separate Marine Battalion Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Cavite, P.I.
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was one of 700 Marines that was organized as a defense and infantry battalion. The First Separate Marine Battalion at Cavite provided antiaircraft and ground protection for all naval activities there. In October he was sent for temporary duty at U.S. Naval Section Base Two, Mariveles, Bataan, P.I.
War broke out on 08 December 1941 and on 10 December, the Cavite Naval Yard was bombed. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered the withdrawal of the American and Filipino forces to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force. On 26 December the First Separate Marine Battalion were moved to Mariveles, Bataan. "As night fell on 26 December all personnel, equipment, and supplies were in place in the jungle near Mariveles." Over the next couple of days they were moved to Fort Mills, Corregidor Island. On 01 January 1942 the First Separate Marine Battalion was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. Johnnie was assigned to Company I.
The 3rd Battalion was assigned the beach defenses in the middle sector on the northeast beaches of the tail of the island (1st Battalion took the east sector, from Malinta Hill to Hooker Point. The 2nd Battalion moved to the west sector). Work began immediately on construction of beach defenses.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 January 1942 to o6 May 1942
Company I, Third Battalion, 4th Marines, Corregidor, P.I.
Private First Class/Corporal Johnnie W. Teal. By April 1942 he had been promoted to Corporal.
On the night of 05 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on Corregidor. Despite heavy resistance by the Marines and severe losses to the Japanese, the enemy was able to push forward. The situation grew more perilous and feeling that further resistance was useless and fearing a possible massacre of 1,000 sick and wounded personnel in Malinta Tunnel, General Wainwright decided to surrender. At 1200, 06 May 1942 the surrender went into effect. Corporal Johnnie W. Teal was among those killed on 06 May 1942.
CPL Teal was initially listed as missing in action. It wasn't until some affidavits of his death were given by fellow Marines while they were in Cabanatuan Prison in August 1942 that he was officially listed as killed in action on 06 May 1942.
Gunnery Sergeant John T. White, USMC, 166191, swore on 24 August 1942, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on 06 May 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.:
PFC Harry G. Hansen, Jr. – 4th Marines, 266633
CPL Johnnie W. Teal – 4th Marines, 275950
Source: File 558-7 1942 Death Reports, shows cause and date of death and place of burial of some cases. Collected in Cabanatuan POW Camp; Philippine Archives Collection.
CPL Johnnie W. Teal's remains were not recovered.
Corporal Johnnie Wesley Teal is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Marine Corps at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
He also has a cenotaph next to his parents in Edwin Community Cemetery, Henry County, Alabama.
Awards: Purple Heart
"Marine casualties in the defense of the Philippines totaled 72 killed in action, 17 dead of wounds, and 167 wounded in action. Worse that the casualty levels caused by combat in the Philippines was the brutal treatment of the Marines in Japanese hands. Of the 1,487 members of the 4th Marines captured on Corregidor, 474 died in captivity." Source: From Shanghai to Corregidor Marines in the Defense of the Philippines by J. Michael Miller, page 44.
1920 United States Federal Census (19 January 1920): Newville, Henry County, Alabama (sheet 12A, family 224) – Johnnie Teal (3 2/12 Alabama).
Johnnie W. Teal enlisted as a Private (S/N 275590) in the United States Marine Corps on 13 October 1939 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 16 October 1939 to 01 December 1939
Recruit Depot Detachment, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private Johnnie W. Teal. He was then assigned to Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 December 1939 to 01 November 1940
Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private/Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was promoted to Private First Class on 06 July 1940.
Johnney W. Teal (23 Alabama) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940) at the U. S. Marine Corps Base, San Diego, San Diego County, California (sheet 48A, line 18). He had lived in rural, Dale County, Alabama in 1935. Jonnie had completed 6th grade. He was with the Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force.
On 01 November 1940 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 November 1940 to 31 December 1940
Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal
On 18 January 1941 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 18 January 1941 to 03 April 1941
Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. On o3 April 1942 he was transferred to "Asiatic Station for General Assignment." He embarked on the 4th and sailed on 09 April from NYd, Mare Island, California via U.S.S. HENDERSON. PFC Teal was sent to the Philippine Islands.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 July 1941 to 26 December 1941
Company "A" First Separate Marine Battalion Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Cavite, P.I.
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was one of 700 Marines that was organized as a defense and infantry battalion. The First Separate Marine Battalion at Cavite provided antiaircraft and ground protection for all naval activities there. In October he was sent for temporary duty at U.S. Naval Section Base Two, Mariveles, Bataan, P.I.
War broke out on 08 December 1941 and on 10 December, the Cavite Naval Yard was bombed. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered the withdrawal of the American and Filipino forces to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force. On 26 December the First Separate Marine Battalion were moved to Mariveles, Bataan. "As night fell on 26 December all personnel, equipment, and supplies were in place in the jungle near Mariveles." Over the next couple of days they were moved to Fort Mills, Corregidor Island. On 01 January 1942 the First Separate Marine Battalion was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. Johnnie was assigned to Company I.
The 3rd Battalion was assigned the beach defenses in the middle sector on the northeast beaches of the tail of the island (1st Battalion took the east sector, from Malinta Hill to Hooker Point. The 2nd Battalion moved to the west sector). Work began immediately on construction of beach defenses.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 January 1942 to o6 May 1942
Company I, Third Battalion, 4th Marines, Corregidor, P.I.
Private First Class/Corporal Johnnie W. Teal. By April 1942 he had been promoted to Corporal.
On the night of 05 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on Corregidor. Despite heavy resistance by the Marines and severe losses to the Japanese, the enemy was able to push forward. The situation grew more perilous and feeling that further resistance was useless and fearing a possible massacre of 1,000 sick and wounded personnel in Malinta Tunnel, General Wainwright decided to surrender. At 1200, 06 May 1942 the surrender went into effect. Corporal Johnnie W. Teal was among those killed on 06 May 1942.
CPL Teal was initially listed as missing in action. It wasn't until some affidavits of his death were given by fellow Marines while they were in Cabanatuan Prison in August 1942 that he was officially listed as killed in action on 06 May 1942.
Gunnery Sergeant John T. White, USMC, 166191, swore on 24 August 1942, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on 06 May 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.:
PFC Harry G. Hansen, Jr. – 4th Marines, 266633
CPL Johnnie W. Teal – 4th Marines, 275950
Source: File 558-7 1942 Death Reports, shows cause and date of death and place of burial of some cases. Collected in Cabanatuan POW Camp; Philippine Archives Collection.
CPL Johnnie W. Teal's remains were not recovered.
Corporal Johnnie Wesley Teal is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Marine Corps at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
He also has a cenotaph next to his parents in Edwin Community Cemetery, Henry County, Alabama.
Awards: Purple Heart
"Marine casualties in the defense of the Philippines totaled 72 killed in action, 17 dead of wounds, and 167 wounded in action. Worse that the casualty levels caused by combat in the Philippines was the brutal treatment of the Marines in Japanese hands. Of the 1,487 members of the 4th Marines captured on Corregidor, 474 died in captivity." Source: From Shanghai to Corregidor Marines in the Defense of the Philippines by J. Michael Miller, page 44.
Johnnie W. Teal enlisted as a Private (S/N 275590) in the United States Marine Corps on 13 October 1939 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 16 October 1939 to 01 December 1939
Recruit Depot Detachment, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private Johnnie W. Teal. He was then assigned to Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 December 1939 to 01 November 1940
Company B, First Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private/Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was promoted to Private First Class on 06 July 1940.
Johnney W. Teal (23 Alabama) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940) at the U. S. Marine Corps Base, San Diego, San Diego County, California (sheet 48A, line 18). He had lived in rural, Dale County, Alabama in 1935. Jonnie had completed 6th grade. He was with the Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force.
On 01 November 1940 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 November 1940 to 31 December 1940
Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal
On 18 January 1941 he was transferred to Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 18 January 1941 to 03 April 1941
Company K, Third Battalion, Second Marines, Second Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. On o3 April 1942 he was transferred to "Asiatic Station for General Assignment." He embarked on the 4th and sailed on 09 April from NYd, Mare Island, California via U.S.S. HENDERSON. PFC Teal was sent to the Philippine Islands.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 July 1941 to 26 December 1941
Company "A" First Separate Marine Battalion Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Cavite, P.I.
Private First Class Johnnie W. Teal. He was one of 700 Marines that was organized as a defense and infantry battalion. The First Separate Marine Battalion at Cavite provided antiaircraft and ground protection for all naval activities there. In October he was sent for temporary duty at U.S. Naval Section Base Two, Mariveles, Bataan, P.I.
War broke out on 08 December 1941 and on 10 December, the Cavite Naval Yard was bombed. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered the withdrawal of the American and Filipino forces to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force. On 26 December the First Separate Marine Battalion were moved to Mariveles, Bataan. "As night fell on 26 December all personnel, equipment, and supplies were in place in the jungle near Mariveles." Over the next couple of days they were moved to Fort Mills, Corregidor Island. On 01 January 1942 the First Separate Marine Battalion was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. Johnnie was assigned to Company I.
The 3rd Battalion was assigned the beach defenses in the middle sector on the northeast beaches of the tail of the island (1st Battalion took the east sector, from Malinta Hill to Hooker Point. The 2nd Battalion moved to the west sector). Work began immediately on construction of beach defenses.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls – 01 January 1942 to o6 May 1942
Company I, Third Battalion, 4th Marines, Corregidor, P.I.
Private First Class/Corporal Johnnie W. Teal. By April 1942 he had been promoted to Corporal.
On the night of 05 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on Corregidor. Despite heavy resistance by the Marines and severe losses to the Japanese, the enemy was able to push forward. The situation grew more perilous and feeling that further resistance was useless and fearing a possible massacre of 1,000 sick and wounded personnel in Malinta Tunnel, General Wainwright decided to surrender. At 1200, 06 May 1942 the surrender went into effect. Corporal Johnnie W. Teal was among those killed on 06 May 1942.
CPL Teal was initially listed as missing in action. It wasn't until some affidavits of his death were given by fellow Marines while they were in Cabanatuan Prison in August 1942 that he was officially listed as killed in action on 06 May 1942.
Gunnery Sergeant John T. White, USMC, 166191, swore on 24 August 1942, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on 06 May 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.:
PFC Harry G. Hansen, Jr. – 4th Marines, 266633
CPL Johnnie W. Teal – 4th Marines, 275950
Source: File 558-7 1942 Death Reports, shows cause and date of death and place of burial of some cases. Collected in Cabanatuan POW Camp; Philippine Archives Collection.
CPL Johnnie W. Teal's remains were not recovered.
Corporal Johnnie Wesley Teal is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Marine Corps at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
He also has a cenotaph next to his parents in Edwin Community Cemetery, Henry County, Alabama.
Awards: Purple Heart
"Marine casualties in the defense of the Philippines totaled 72 killed in action, 17 dead of wounds, and 167 wounded in action. Worse that the casualty levels caused by combat in the Philippines was the brutal treatment of the Marines in Japanese hands. Of the 1,487 members of the 4th Marines captured on Corregidor, 474 died in captivity." Source: From Shanghai to Corregidor Marines in the Defense of the Philippines by J. Michael Miller, page 44.
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