WWII Killed in Action List "T"
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S2c Joseph Tabaczynski was killed in action during an enemy bombing raid at Rendova on 24 July 1943 while serving with the 24th Naval Construction Battalion. The bomb exploded ten feet from his foxhole. Tabaczynski was buried at Cemetery #1, Rendova and reinterred at Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, New York. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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MM3c Richard Taylor was killed in action at Peleliu on 15 September 1944 from a shrapnel wound. He served with the 17th Special Naval Construction Battalion. Taylor was buried at USAF Cemetery #1, Peleliu and reinterred at Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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MM1c Henry Thompson was killed in action on Guadalcanal while deployed with the 6th Naval Construction Battalion. On October 14, 1942 while the Japanese Navy bombarded Henderson Field in Guadalcanal, MM1c Henry Thompson and five of his men dug into a fox hole to escape bombardment when a shell hit the foxhole, Thompson suffered a major concussion and several other men almost suffocated. Thompson was the first Seabee killed in action during World War II. Thompson was buried at 1st Marine Division Cemetery, Guadalcanal and reinterred at Chariton Cemetery, Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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MM2c Tom Thompson was killed in action during a bombing raid at Rendova on 2 July 1943 while serving with the 24th Naval Construction Battalion. Thompson was buried at Cemetery #1, Rendova, and reinterred at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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CM2c Riley Thurmond was killed in action at Olongapo, Zambales Province, Philippines after he was ambushed by enemy forces on 11 March 1945. He served with the 102nd Naval Construction Battalion. He was buried where he was killed with at marked grave approximately 4 miles from Olongapo. Reinterred at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, and entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic- Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal and the Philippines Defense Ribbon. |
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S1c Robert Tinnes was killed in action at Okinawa on 29 April 1945. Tinnes had been attached to the 1st Marine Division, Epidemic and Malaria control group, when he was killed after an accidental discharge from a Japanese rifle bya fellow sailor. He was 22 years old. He was buried at the 1st Marine Division Cemetery, Okinawa and reinterred at Calvary Cemetery in West Chicago, Illinois. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, and was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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EM2c Ross Levi Toler was killed in action aboard LST-333 after it was hit by torpedoes on 22 June 1943. Toler served with the 70th Naval Construction Battalion in Algeria preparing for the invasion of Sicily. LST-333 was attacked by U-boat U-593 off the coast of Algeria. Toler and 25 other crewmen were killed after being hit by 4 torpedoes. Toler was buried in American Cemetery, Constantine, Algeria, and reinterred at Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was survived by his wife Esther Veronica Toler. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. |
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SF3c Casper Walker Tomasetti was killed in action at Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945 while serving with the 133th Naval Construction Battalion. Tomasetti was buried at the 4th Marine Division Cemetery, Iwo Jima and reinterred at Holy Name Catholic Cemetery in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, Navy Unit Commendation for the Battle of Iwo Jima, and was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
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GM2c Irno Tozzini was killed in action during the initial invasion of Mindoro, Philippines on 15 December 1944, while serving with the 113 Naval Construction Battalion. Tozzini was stationed as a loader on a 20mm anti-aircraft gun at the time a plane crashed. The entire gun station was destroyed and the gun mount swept overboard by the direct hit. His body was not recovered. Tozzini is memorialized on the wall of the missing at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Philippines. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, and entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic- Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal and the Philippines Defense Ribbon. |
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S1c Joseph Trenta was killed in action at Okinawa Shima from a gunshot wound to the chest on 15 April 1945. He served with the 71st Naval Construction Battalion. Trenta was buried in 1st Marine Division Cemetery #1, Okinawa and reinterred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Akron, Ohio. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. |
Published: Mon Jul 01 17:43:22 EDT 2024
