World War II Honoree

Tony Louis Yorset

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Stockton, California

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps from California, with recruit training at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California, and infantry training at Camp Pendleton Oceanside, California. He served as a Rifleman, assigned to Delta Company, Second Battalion, Twenty-Sixth Marines and an element of the Fifth Marine Division. His division participated in the amphibious assault, and occupation of Iwo Jima Island Location: Western Pacific Theater of Operations. Thursday, February 22, 1945 he was mortally wounded, during offensive operations against the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Personnel from a Graves Registration Company buried him in the Fifth Marine Division Iwo battlefield cemetery. In the post-war era, this Marines’ family requested that he be buried with Military Honors at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery located at Stockton, California. In his Memory and Honor, this American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his Heroism and ultimate sacrifice.