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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth
1922 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Sheila Rae Myers, HM3
to remember
Abel, Charles Larrabee, Jr., PhM3c.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
Lancaster, PA |
Last Address
435 S. West End Ave
Lancaster, PA
(mother - Mildred L Abel)
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Casualty Date
Jun 08, 1944 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died |
Reason
Gun, Small Arms Fire |
Location
France |
Conflict
World War II |
Location of Interment
Saint Josephs New Roman Catholic Cemetery - Bausman, Pennsylvania |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Not Specified |
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Last Known Activity
The 6th Beach Battalion medical teams, forced to drag casualties from the surf toward the enemy's murderous guns on D-Day, became casualties themselves. Under punishing fire, aidmen worked up and down the beach and in the minefields, bandaging, splinting, giving morphine, and plasma. Navy doctors and corpsmen, often themselves injured, worked as they could to give emergency treatment. The casualty rate of the Battalion's medical personnel on Normandy D-Day was 27 percent. Five corpsmen died performing their humanitarian duty:
PhM 3c Charles L. Abel (KIA)
HA1c Virgil Mounts (KIA)
PhM 1c John T. O'Donnell (KIA)
PhM 2c John F. Peterssen (KIA)
PhM 3c Morris W. Rickenbach (KIA)
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Comments/Citation
Service number: 2451238
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.
The information contained in this profile was compiles from various internet sources.
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