Rank and Name, Private Laurence G. Dahl.

Unit/Placed in, 6^th Defense Battalion Marines, Sea Coast Artillery .

Laurence is born approx. on Jan. 24, 1922 in Minnesota.

Father, Sidney J. Dahl.

Mother, Laura M. (Bagley) Dahl.

Brothers, Wallace S. Howard E. and Joseph R. Dahl.

Laurence enlisted the service in Minnesota with service number # 507543.

Laurence was KIA defending Midway  from the Japanese on April 19, 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Laurence is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

He also has a Memorial Grave at Badger Cemetery, Badger, Roseau County, Minnesota, USA.

He is mentioned on the Roseau County Veteran’s Memorial in Roseau, MN.

Thanks to Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC, https://abmc.gov

P.O.W. info, Wes Injerd and Dwight Rider, http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Air-Force, Rolland Swank NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org

Philippine Scouts Heritage Society,http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/   

Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org    

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