World War II Honoree

Carl Basil Pace

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Lincoln, Nebraska

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Corporal. Inducted into the United States Marine Corps May 19, 1939 at San Francisco, California, with recruit training assigned to the Fifth Recruit Battalion Training Regiment; Marine Corps Base San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from Boot Camp, he was transferred to Camp Pendleton Oceanside, California for combat training. Served as a Rifleman assigned to Alpha Company, First Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Marine Regiment and Fifth Marine Division Location: Western Pacific Theater of Operations. 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. On March 7, 1945 he was killed in action, during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces, with burial in the Fifth Marine Division battlefield cemetery on Iwo. Succeeding hostilities with Japan, the family of this Marine requested that he be buried at Honolulu Memorial Cemetery Location: Honolulu, Hawaii with interment March 19, 1949. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.