Robert J. Grove was born in 1926, the only child of WW-I veteran Robert A. Grove and Nellie M. (Gardner) Grove. In November of 1943, with World War II raging and his 17th birthday only two months in the past, Robert enlisted in the United States Marines. Shipped off to the Pacific, Grove was wounded on Peleliu Island [1] on September 15, 1944, while assigned to "CO. C, 1STBN, 7THMAR, 1STMARDIV, FMF, PALAU ISLANDS." [2]
After the war, Robert returned to Missouri where he married Anita Mae Boone in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, on September 9, 1947. Robert lived and worked in Kansas City but moved to Belton, Missouri at least ten years before his death in 2003. Today, he rests next to his mother, father, and wife Anita in Belton Cemetery.
Belton Remembers
and initial research by Lila Cole #46507767
[1]Grove was wounded on the first day of the Battle of Peleliu. Although the Battle of Peleliu is not well-known today, it was every bit as hard-fought and grim as the better-known battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines". The fight on Peleliu is featured prominently in one of the best-known books about the Marines during World War II: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge. Sledge's book forms a great deal of the foundation for the mini-series The Pacific.
[2] Translates as "Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Palau Islands." Note that Grove was in good company. The 7th Marine Regiment was also the "home" of WW2 Medal of Honor recipients John Basilone and Mitchell Paige as well as the most decorated marine in American history, Lewis "Chesty" Puller, who also commanded the 1st Marine Regiment at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
After the war, Robert returned to Missouri where he married Anita Mae Boone in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, on September 9, 1947. Robert lived and worked in Kansas City but moved to Belton, Missouri at least ten years before his death in 2003. Today, he rests next to his mother, father, and wife Anita in Belton Cemetery.
Belton Remembers
and initial research by Lila Cole #46507767
[1]Grove was wounded on the first day of the Battle of Peleliu. Although the Battle of Peleliu is not well-known today, it was every bit as hard-fought and grim as the better-known battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines". The fight on Peleliu is featured prominently in one of the best-known books about the Marines during World War II: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge. Sledge's book forms a great deal of the foundation for the mini-series The Pacific.
[2] Translates as "Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Palau Islands." Note that Grove was in good company. The 7th Marine Regiment was also the "home" of WW2 Medal of Honor recipients John Basilone and Mitchell Paige as well as the most decorated marine in American history, Lewis "Chesty" Puller, who also commanded the 1st Marine Regiment at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
Robert J. Grove was born in 1926, the only child of WW-I veteran Robert A. Grove and Nellie M. (Gardner) Grove. In November of 1943, with World War II raging and his 17th birthday only two months in the past, Robert enlisted in the United States Marines. Shipped off to the Pacific, Grove was wounded on Peleliu Island [1] on September 15, 1944, while assigned to "CO. C, 1STBN, 7THMAR, 1STMARDIV, FMF, PALAU ISLANDS." [2]
After the war, Robert returned to Missouri where he married Anita Mae Boone in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, on September 9, 1947. Robert lived and worked in Kansas City but moved to Belton, Missouri at least ten years before his death in 2003. Today, he rests next to his mother, father, and wife Anita in Belton Cemetery.
Belton Remembers
and initial research by Lila Cole #46507767
[1]Grove was wounded on the first day of the Battle of Peleliu. Although the Battle of Peleliu is not well-known today, it was every bit as hard-fought and grim as the better-known battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines". The fight on Peleliu is featured prominently in one of the best-known books about the Marines during World War II: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge. Sledge's book forms a great deal of the foundation for the mini-series The Pacific.
[2] Translates as "Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Palau Islands." Note that Grove was in good company. The 7th Marine Regiment was also the "home" of WW2 Medal of Honor recipients John Basilone and Mitchell Paige as well as the most decorated marine in American history, Lewis "Chesty" Puller, who also commanded the 1st Marine Regiment at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
After the war, Robert returned to Missouri where he married Anita Mae Boone in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, on September 9, 1947. Robert lived and worked in Kansas City but moved to Belton, Missouri at least ten years before his death in 2003. Today, he rests next to his mother, father, and wife Anita in Belton Cemetery.
Belton Remembers
and initial research by Lila Cole #46507767
[1]Grove was wounded on the first day of the Battle of Peleliu. Although the Battle of Peleliu is not well-known today, it was every bit as hard-fought and grim as the better-known battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines". The fight on Peleliu is featured prominently in one of the best-known books about the Marines during World War II: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge. Sledge's book forms a great deal of the foundation for the mini-series The Pacific.
[2] Translates as "Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Palau Islands." Note that Grove was in good company. The 7th Marine Regiment was also the "home" of WW2 Medal of Honor recipients John Basilone and Mitchell Paige as well as the most decorated marine in American history, Lewis "Chesty" Puller, who also commanded the 1st Marine Regiment at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
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