Tarawa Cemetery 32

Also known as 6th Marines Cemetery #1 on Marine Corps records, this burial ground contained the remains of six Marines who fell in the end stages of the battle for Tarawa:

1Lt. John Bradford Phillips (HQ/1/6th Marines) – Grave 1
Corporal Glen Richard Smith (HQ/1/6th Marines) – Grave 2
PFC Sidney William McKay (D/1/6th Marines) – Grave 3
PFC James H. Gamble (L/3/6th Marines) – Grave 4
PFC Glen Henry Trout (K/3/6th Marines) – Grave 5
PFC Daryl Maxwell Luedtke (C/1/10th Marines) – Grave 6

With the exception of the artilleryman Luedtke (KIA 23 November), all Marines buried here died on 24 November 1943. Memorial markers were emplaced (slightly out of the original burial order) during the beautification and reconstruction period.

The  604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company exhumed and identified all six Marines in Cemetery 32. On 3 April 1946, they were reinterred in Lone Palm Cemetery Plot 2, Row 9, Graves 14-17; and Row 10, Grave 2 (Gamble).