World War II Honoree

Toufy Zurob

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Toledo, Ohio

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps August 21, 1943 from Ohio. His boot camp training took place with the Eleventh 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 as a Rifleman with the Fourth Marine Division in the Northwestern Pacific Theater of Operations, assigned to Easy Company, Second Battalion and Twenty-Third Regiment. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the island of Saipan. Killed in action Thursday, June 15, 1944 on the first day of the invasion during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces, and buried in the U.S. armed forces battlefield cemetery on Saipan. His name has been etched on one of the Twenty-Sixth granite plates, located in the court of Honor, American Memorial on Saipan. After the cessation of hostilities with Japan, the family of this Marine requested that his remains be transferred to Honolulu. He was laid to rest November 3, 1949 in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.