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Louis Charlo

not stated–1945

Marine (2nd Battalion, 28th Marines; VA #VeteranOfTheDay)

U.S. Marine Corps; 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division; Mount Suribachi reconnaissance and second flag-raising perimeter, Iwo Jima; killed 2 Mar 1945 attempting to aid a wounded Marine

Documented decorations

Louis Charlo’s Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Marine service at Iwo Jima. This decorations page records those two types from that VA sentence. It will not invent a Combat “V” or an oak-leaf tally the paragraph does not carry.

A Salish Indian from Montana’s Bitterroot Tribe, Charlo enlisted in the Marines in 1943 and served with the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines of the 5th Marine Division. On 23 February 1945 he was among the platoon that scaled Mount Suribachi for reconnaissance and later held the perimeter during the second flag raising. He died 2 March 1945 while trying to save wounded Marine Ed McLaughlin in a sector nicknamed “The Meat Grinder.” He is buried at the Old Catholic Cemetery in Saint Ignatius, Montana. The Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal are the published decoration names here.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

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