World War II Honoree

Carl Edwin Grossman

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Muskogee Heights, Michigan

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Corporal. Inducted into the United States Marine Corps August 20, 1942 at Detroit, Michigan, with recruit training assigned to the Ninth 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. Following basic and advanced infantry training, he served as a Rifleman with Easy Battery, Second Battalion, Fourteenth Marine Regiment a subordinate unit of the Fourth Marine Division Location: Northwestern Pacific Theater of Operations. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the island of Saipan, (Battle Dates: June 15-July 9, 1944) Marianas Islands. On June 16, 1944 he was mortally wounded during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces, with burial in the Fourth Marine Division 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. Succeeding hostilities with Japan, his family requested that he be buried with Military Honors at Honolulu Memorial Cemetery Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, with interment February 2, 1949. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.