World War II Honoree

Jack Calvin Comer

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Tillamook, Oregon

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps May 28, 1942 from Oregon and completed his basic training, with the Fourth Recruit Battalion Training Regiment; Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from Boot Camp, he was transferred to Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California for his combat training. Served as a machine gun ammunition carrier with the Fourth Marine Division in the Northwestern Pacific Theater of Operations, assigned to Alpha Company, First Battalion and Twenty-Fourth Marine Regiment. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (Battle Dates: June 15-July 9, 1944). Killed in action Saturday, July 8, 1944 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 received his remains for burial, with interment at the Haines Cemetery in Haines, Oregon. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.