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NAME Richard Joseph Kenny |
NICKNAME — |
SERVICE NUMBER 288865 |
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| UNIT Company G Second Battalion 2nd Marines |
HOME OF RECORD 4353 30th Street, San Diego, CA |
NEXT OF KIN Mother, Mrs. Geraldine Kenny |
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| DATE OF BIRTH unknown |
ENTERED SERVICE July 12, 1940 |
DATE OF LOSS January 13, 1943 |
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| REGION Solomon Islands |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Guadalcanal |
CASUALTY TYPE Killed In Action |
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| CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS Corporal Richard Kenny served as a non-commissioned officer with G/2/2nd Marines during the battle of Guadalcanal. He was killed in action on 13 January 1943, the day the American forces commenced their final offensive against Japanese holdouts on the island’s north coast. His body was not recovered from the battlefield. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Corporal |
STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered. |
MEMORIALS Manila American Cemetery |
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