World War II Honoree

Frederick Blair Warren

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Marshall, Texas

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps from Texas, with recruit training assigned to the Third 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 combat training. Served as a Rifleman with the Fourth Marine Division in the Western Pacific Theater of Operations, assigned to Headquarters Company, Third Battalion and Twenty-Fifth Marine Regiment. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the Volcanic Island of Iwo Jima (Battle Dates: February 19-March 26, 1945) Code Name: Operation Detachment. Reported missing in action, lost at sea Sunday, February 25, 1945, during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ’Punchbowl’ Hawaii. Later, his missing in action status was amended to read killed in action February 20, 1946. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Algoma Cemetery in Marshall, Texas. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.