World War II Honoree

James Herbert Daberry

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Groesbeck, Texas

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. On October 20, 1942, he was inducted into the United States Marine Corps from Texas. His boot camp training took place with the Ninth Recruit Battalion, Training Regiment; Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California. Later he completed his Marine Combat Training at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. Served with Company-I as a rifleman, Third Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment, and a subordinate unit of the Second Marine Division in the Western Pacific Theater of Operations. His division Participated in the Amphibious assault on the Island of Saipan against the Imperial Japanese Army forces (Dates of Battle: June 15-July 9, 1944) Mariana Islands Campaign. Reported Missing in Action, Lost at sea Tuesday, June 27, 1944. His name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, Memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. His name has been etched on one of the Twenty-Six granite plates located in the court of Honor, American Memorial on Saipan. The family of this Marine has placed a Memorial Marker in his memory at the Faulkenberry Cemetery in Groesbeck, Texas. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.