World War II Honoree

Gus Eugene Evans

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Crowley, Texas

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps September 20, 1943 at Dallas, Texas. His boot camp training took place with the Eighth 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 Second Marine Division in the Northwestern Pacific Theater of Operations. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Reported missing in action, lost at sea Thursday, June 15, 1944 during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces on the first day of the invasion. His name has been etched on one of the Twenty-Sixth granite plates, located in the court of Honor, American Memorial on Saipan. His name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Caddo Cemetery in Joshua, Texas. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.