| NAME Charles Henry Myers |
NICKNAME — |
MCSN 355724 |
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| HOME OF RECORD 110 South York Street, Wheeling, WV |
NEXT OF KIN Mother, Mrs. Wilma Gehring |
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| DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1924 |
DATE OF ENLISTMENT January 19, 1942 |
DATE OF LOSS November 11, 1942 |
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| REGION Solomons |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Guadalcanal / Asamana (Carlson’s Long Patrol) |
CASUALTY TYPE Killed In Action |
UNIT C/2nd Raider Battalion |
DUTY 604 |
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| CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS On 11 November 1942, during the Long Patrol, companies of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion sent out aggressive patrols between the villages of Binu and Asamana, Guadalcanal. At about 1100 hours, the point squad of Company C ran into a fortified Japanese unit guarding the approaches to Asamana itself. A light machine gun crew under Corporal John “Sully” Sullivan attempted to give the trapped men some supporting fire, but quickly became targets themselves. PFC Charles H. Myers was shot and killed while attending to the gun. After running out of ammunition in a two-hour fight, the survivors disabled the weapon and retreated. Myers was reportedly buried in the field near Asamana the following day. The exact location of the grave was not recorded, and his remains have never been recovered. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Private First Class |
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| STATUS OF REMAINS Buried in the field. |
MEMORIALS Manila American Cemetery |
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In fits and starts we made it about halfway across the field when we ran smack-dab into our .30-caliber light machine gunner, Cpl. John Sullivan. He was firing a free gun in long, steady bursts, spraying the trees and jungle to discourage tree-climbing enemy snipers…. I recovered a box of MG ammo for him. His crew were all dead or wounded…. Woodrow O. Greenlee, ammo carrier, was shot in the hip, in great pain, as he tried to crawl to the rear. Charles H. Myers was dead. Woody and Myers had joined C Co. and Sullivan’s gun crew from D Co. just before we left Espiritu Santo for Guadalcanal.
– Lowell Bulger, 2nd Raider Battalion, quoted in The Raider Patch, May 1980.
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