On the night of 9 October 1942, the First Battalion, 2nd Marines set out from their camp on Tulagi to make a raid on Aola, Guadalcanal. Over 400 men crowded into a handful of Higgins boats, which would be towed across Sealark Channel under cover of darkness.
Halfway across the channel, the boat carrying the 2nd Platoon of B/1/2 was ripped in half, dumping the startled men into the water. Weighed down by their gear, many never had a chance. Fourteen Marines – including Private Myron Winograd – and three of the boat crew were drowned, their bodies lost at sea.
Service # 339697
Rank Private U.S. Marine Corps
★ Purple Heart
Halfway across the channel, the boat carrying the 2nd Platoon of B/1/2 was ripped in half, dumping the startled men into the water. Weighed down by their gear, many never had a chance. Fourteen Marines – including Private Myron Winograd – and three of the boat crew were drowned, their bodies lost at sea.
Service # 339697
Rank Private U.S. Marine Corps
★ Purple Heart
On the night of 9 October 1942, the First Battalion, 2nd Marines set out from their camp on Tulagi to make a raid on Aola, Guadalcanal. Over 400 men crowded into a handful of Higgins boats, which would be towed across Sealark Channel under cover of darkness.
Halfway across the channel, the boat carrying the 2nd Platoon of B/1/2 was ripped in half, dumping the startled men into the water. Weighed down by their gear, many never had a chance. Fourteen Marines – including Private Myron Winograd – and three of the boat crew were drowned, their bodies lost at sea.
Service # 339697
Rank Private U.S. Marine Corps
★ Purple Heart
Halfway across the channel, the boat carrying the 2nd Platoon of B/1/2 was ripped in half, dumping the startled men into the water. Weighed down by their gear, many never had a chance. Fourteen Marines – including Private Myron Winograd – and three of the boat crew were drowned, their bodies lost at sea.
Service # 339697
Rank Private U.S. Marine Corps
★ Purple Heart
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Illinois.
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