Rank and Name, Field Cook Garvin Garfield Steele.
Unit/Placed in, 4th Marine Regiment (Comp-I), United States Marine Corps.
Garvin is born approx. on no record.
Garvin enlisted the service in Oregon with service number # 243790.
Garvin was KIA in the Bombardment and Artillery shelling from the Japanese forces on Corregidor in the first 4 Days of May on 2 May 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart with 3 Gold Stars, Good Combat Ribbon, Marine Good Conduct Medal, Marine Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Garvin is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Thanks to, https://web.archive.org/web/20070608130751/http://users.idworld.net/wlldggr/usmc4-00.htm
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/holdhightorchhis00unit.pdf
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
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/
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PHILIPPINES
4thMar
JAMES, John Donald, 290930, CoA, 1stBn, 4thMar, Fort Mills, Philippine Is, killed in action (mc)
KITE, T J, 278394, CoA, 1stBn, 4thMar, Philippine Is, killed in action (mc)
RIVERS, Alvin Joseph, 276493, SerCo, 4thMar, Philippine Is, killed in action (mc)
SHAULL, Donald Murl, 244397, CoA, 1stBn, 4thMar, Philippine Is, killed in action (mc)
STEELE, Garvin Garfield, 243790, CoI, 4thMar, Philippine Is, killed in action (mc)
