Rank and Name, Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Charles Larrabee Abel.
Unit/Placed in, Sixth Beach Battalion (Hospital Corps), United States Naval Reserve.
Charles is born on 24 April 1922 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Father, John Edward Abel.
Mother, Mildred Larrabee Abel.
Sister(s), Mildred Abel.
Brother(s), Herbert Edward and John E. Jr. Abel.
Charles enlisted the service in Pennsylvania with service number # 2451238.
Charles was MIA on Omaha Beach on D-Day he was shot while taking care of the wounded on 8 June 1944, he is honored with a Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Combat Medical Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
Charles was buried/mentioned at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
He is reburied in 1949 at Saint Joseph’s New Roman Catholic Cemetery
Bausman, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Thanks to, https://www.6thbeachbattalion.org/index.html
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQRB-V9S
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
WW2 Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Medals Forum, https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/
Bronze Star Medal and Combat Medic Badge
On Veterans Day of 2012, a special ceremony was held aboard the USS New Jersey. At that time, the following was read:
By order of the Secretary of the Army, 15 March 2012, Permanent Order 075-15 through 075-22, the following sailors of the 6th Naval Beach Battalion are to receive the Combat Medical Badge and Army Bronze Star Medal, for actions during World War II.
PhM3 Abel’s name is on the list of the medical personnel who died on 6/8/1944 on the beach at Normandy and presented with those two awards.
The medal and badge were presented to PhM3 Abel’s niece, Martha Goldtharp, and his nephew, Erik Abel.
Thanks to, https://navy.togetherweserved.com/
SIXTH Naval Beach Battalion fallen sailors 8 June 1944.
“THEY ARE THE SILENT SENTINELS WHO FROM THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE ABOVE THE CLIFF THEY PERPETUALLY WATCH OVER THE SACRED GROUND OF OMAHA BEACH.”
BM 1c George L. Abbott
PhM 3c Charles L. Abel
SM 3c Gilford R. Albertson
Ens James E. Allison
RM 3c Edwyn D. Black
RM 3c John M. Chase
RM 3c Francis J. Collins
Lt (jg) Almond L. Hagerty
S 1c George G. Higgins
S 1c Calvin H. Hoppes
RM 2c Alton Hudson
Coxswain Amin Isbir
Lt (jg) Leonard L. Lewis
RM 3c Lawrence R. Merideth
HA 1c Virgil Mounts
RM 2c John N. Murphy
PhM 1c John T. O’Donnell
PhM 2c John F. Peterssen
PhM 3c Morris W. Rickenbach
RM 3c T. I. Simmons
Lt (jg) George L. Wade
