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PLATOON SGT
DORNIE BYRD REYNOLDS

COMPANY B - 2ND AMPHIBIAN TRACTOR BATTALION
2ND MARINE DIVISION
FMF

AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION Dornie Byrd Reynolds Platoon Sergeant U.S. Marine Corps 00256252 Entered the Service from: Maryland Died: November 22, 1943 Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Hawaii Awards: Purple Heart

Sgt. Dornie B. Reynolds' family has information that he was killed when his LVT
struck a Japanese land mine at Tarawa. Their records contain information that
Sgt. Reynolds and Captain Thomas B. Royster were in two different LVTs
that both hit land mines almost simutaneously and only a few yards apart.

THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWN
THE DOCUMENT WAS FOUND AMONG FAMILY RECORDS

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THE NAME "DORNICE" ON THE CROSS IS AN ERROR - HIS FIRST NAME WAS "DORNIE"

	THE ADJACENT PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW READABLE MARKERS FOR THE MARINES LISTED BELOW
Jerold Roger Hull Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps 00430853 Entered the Service from: Wisconsin Died: November 20, 1943	Alfred J. Facchiano Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps 00479457 Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania Died: November 20, 1943	John William Gill Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps 00322511 Entered the Service from: Oklahoma Died: November 20, 1943
Elden R. Baumbach Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps 00394940 Entered the Service from: California Died: November 22, 1943	Jimmie Dick Hogan Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps 00447136 Entered the Service from: Oregon Died: November 21, 1943	Alexander Krotow Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps 00453266 Entered the Service from: Massachusetts Died: November 20, 1943
	Thomas Frank Johnson Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps 00418629 Entered the Service from: California Died: November 22, 1943

THIS IS BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE MEMORIAL CEMETERIES WHERE A CROSS
WAS PLACED TO HONOR EACH OF THE KNOWN DEAD AT TARAWA

THE CROSSES DO NOT ACTUALLY REFLECT THE LOCATION OF THE REMAINS

JLH 2005